Railway sleepers

Hello all, Anyone know where I can get cheap used railway sleepers for the garden, I'm in kent:cnfs:

 

Well... a quick Google for "Railway sleepers, Kent" brought this up straight away.

http://www.sevenoakssleepers.co.uk/

 

Beware, some (perhaps most) old railway sleepers have been treated with creosote, having said that, have a look in your Yellow Pages, or - if you wish, I can look in mine (I have 2) which cover Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells areas.

 

Hi Nat

I have some used, creosote-encrusted sleepers in my garden. They are cheap and very durable, thanks to their coating of gunk, and don't seem to have caused any problems at all.

 

I'd suggest all second-hand "proper railway sleepers" will have a coating of creosote, most will be decades old.
It's likely having endured years of rain in situ that none of the chemicals with which they were coated will now affect the soil after all this time.

 

I have used sleepers on my raised vegetable and fruit beds for a number of years now-no problems at all. They'll probably see me out!
In fact if I recall cerrectly I started a similar thread on here before I went ahead with using them.

 

Thankyou for all your replys :thumb:
I had found some online myself, but thought I would ask on here as well

 

I got new short sleepers, 8 foot x 10" x 5" for 15 quid each from my local wood yard. They were a lot cheaper than the garden centres. I needed untreated wood because it was going round my fish pond, cant have chemicals running into the water.