Which of the following was used to hold railway tracks together?
A
Ballasts
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B
Iron rods
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C
Sleepers
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D
Iron ingots
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Solution
The correct option is C Sleepers Sleepers are wooden planks laid across railway tracks to hold the tracks together. During British colonial rule, wood for making sleepers came from the forests of the Himalayas and Terai regions.