[melb] burning sleepers at North Melbourne

[pshute@melbpc.org.au]

I regularly see smouldering sleepers while I wait for my train at
North Melbourne.  I can see that many sleepers have old burn marks,
and that some are burnt very deeply.

What causes these fires? Cigarettes or something hot dropping off a
train?  It seems to happen regularly, and I expect that sleepers are
not cheap to replace, so why doesn't anyone seem to care if there is
smoke billowing up from the tracks?

Peter Shute