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Which of the following was used to hold railway tracks together?

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Ballasts

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Iron rods

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Sleepers

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Iron ingots

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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.

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