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| November 24, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Thieves who steal railway sleepers -- thereby endangering train passengers -- have struck for the third time in the northern Free State, police said on Friday. Inspector Louis Saaiman said a wide-wake Spoornet track master, Christo van Niekerk, 44, noticed that several of the huge heavy wooden sleepers which serve as a bed for the railway lines were missing on Thursday at Kroonstad station. Digging deeper into the matter, Van Niekerk found that altogether 120 sleepers with a value of R18000 had vanished from underneath railway lines in and around Kroonstad. The wooden supports had been removed without damaging the iron rails, said Saaiman. It was the third such case he had been ...

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