Raw steel end post for railway sleeper walls, in PFC channel steel 125 x 65mm. Closes off the end of a run. Paint it, or leave it to weather to a rusted patina.

An end post closes off a run of sleepers. The channel takes the timber from one side only, so the last sleeper in a wall is held and squared without anything showing on the open face.

Key points

• PFC channel 125mm x 65mm at 11.9kg per metre — web 5.2mm, flange 6.8mm.
• Raw steel — supplied untreated and the cheapest of the three, ready to paint yourself or leave to weather to a rusted finish.
• Ten lengths — 600mm, 900mm, 1m, 1.2m, 1.5m, 1.6m, 1.8m, 2m, 2.4m and 3m, so the post suits anything from a single course border to a wall several sleepers high.
• No fixings required — nothing to bolt, screw or drill.
• For 100mm wide sleepers only. Our railway sleepers are 195mm x 95mm, so they suit.

How it goes in

No fixings needed. Set the post, then drop the sleepers into the channel from above. The steel is sized to leave the timber a small amount of room, so the sleeper can expand in the wet and shrink back in a dry summer without splitting or pushing the post over.

Why this finish

Raw steel is supplied untreated, so it is the cheapest way into a sleeper wall and the most flexible: paint it whatever colour the garden wants, or leave it to weather down to a rust brown that sits well against timber. If you want it left bare, be aware it will mark whatever it stands on as it weathers.

Where it is used

The ends of raised beds, planters, borders and retaining walls, and anywhere a sleeper run finishes in the open rather than into a corner or a wall.

Choosing lengths and quantities

The post has to go into the ground as well as stand above it, so order longer than the finished height of the wall — how much longer depends on your ground and the height you are retaining. Along a run you want an intermediate post between each pair of sleepers, an end post where the run stops and a corner post at each change of direction, all in the same raw steel finish.

What else you might need

Railway sleepers themselves in tanalised green or brown, sleeper pins to anchor the bottom course, and post mix for setting the posts. See the full sleepers and posts range.

Delivery and trade pricing

Delivered nationwide, or collect from our Liverpool yard. Building a full garden scheme? Trade accounts get bulk pricing across the range.