Why are they called railway sleepers?

The common explanation of the origin of the word is to connect it with sleep, the timbers supposed to be lying at rest. The real source of the word is the Norwegian sleep, a piece of timber used for dragging things over, a roller, especially used of timbers laid in a row in making a road.



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