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చరిత్రలో తొలిసారి దేశవ్యాప్తంగా రైళ్లకు కొత్త పట్టాలు: కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం

చరిత్రలో తొలిసారి దేశవ్యాప్తంగా రైళ్లకు కొత్త పట్టాలు: కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం

* మొదటిసారిగా పూర్తిస్థాయిలో ట్రాక్‌ పునరుద్ధరణ

* చరిత్రలో తొలిసారి భారీ కసరత్తు.

* పెరగనున్న రైళ్ల వేగం గంటకు 190కి.మీ.
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చరిత్రలో తొలిసారిగా భారతీయ రైల్వే భారీ కసరత్తు మొదలుపెట్టింది. రైల్వే ట్రాక్‌ను సమూలంగా మార్చే పనిని ప్రారంభించింది. ప్రపంచవ్యాప్తంగా చాలా దేశాల్లో స్పీడ్‌ రైళ్లు పరుగులు పెడుతున్న నేపథ్యంలో మన దేశంలోనూ రైళ్ల వేగాన్ని గరిష్టస్థాయికి చేర్చేందుకు కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం ఈ బృహత్తర ప్రాజెక్టుకు శ్రీకారం చుట్టింది. దేశవ్యాప్తంగా దశలవారీగా 65,000 కి.మీ. (ఇందులో దక్షిణ మధ్య రైల్వే 6,200 కి.మీ.) ట్రాక్‌ను పూర్తిగా మార్చనున్నారు. దక్షిణ మధ్య రైల్వేలో ఈ ఆర్థిక సంవత్సరం రూ.800 కోట్లతో 300 కి.మీ. మేర ట్రాక్‌ను మార్చాలని లక్ష్యంగా పెట్టుకున్నారు. కుదిరితే లక్ష్యాన్ని మించి పనులు చేపట్టే దిశగా కసరత్తు చేస్తున్నారు. వచ్చే నాలుగైదేళ్లలో మొత్తం కొత్త ట్రాక్‌ కనిపించనుంది. కేవలం పట్టాలు మాత్రమే కాకుండా.. వాటి దిగువన ఉండే స్లీపర్లను కూడా కొత్తవి ఏర్పాటు చేస్తారు. గతంలోని ఇనుము, చెక్క స్లీపర్లను తొలగించి కాంక్రీట్‌ స్లీపర్లు బిగిస్తున్నారు. వాటితోపాటు క్లాంప్స్, క్లిప్స్, స్విచ్చెస్‌ వంటివన్నీ కొత్తవి ఏర్పాటు చేస్తున్నారు. కొన్ని చోట్ల లూప్‌లైన్లు, యార్డుల్లోని మెరుగైన పట్టాలను తొలగించి వేరే చోట ఏర్పాటు చేస్తున్నారు.

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పట్టాలు అవసాన దశకు చేరుకోవటంతో తరచూ రైలు ప్రమాదాలు చోటు చేసుకుంటున్నాయి. ఉన్నట్టుండి పట్టా విరిగి రైళ్లు పట్టాలు తప్పుతున్నాయి. కొత్త పట్టాల ఏర్పాటుతో ఈ సమస్య పూర్తిగా పరిష్కారం అవుతుంది. ప్రస్తుతం 250 మీటర్ల పొడవున్న పట్టాలను ఏర్పాటు చేసి వెల్డింగ్‌ ద్వారా వాటిని జోడిస్తున్నారు. ఎండాకాలంలో పట్టాల వ్యాకోచం వల్ల అతుకులు ఊడిపోయి ప్రమాదాలు జరుగుతున్నాయి. ఇప్పుడు వాటి స్థానంలో కిలోమీటరున్నర నుంచి రెండు కిలోమీటర్ల పొడవుండే పట్టాలను ఏర్పాటు చేస్తున్నారు. వాటిని అత్యాధునిక పరిజ్ఞానంతో జోడిస్తున్నారు. దీంతో వ్యాకోచించే సమయంలో ఏర్పడుతున్న సమస్యలు ఇక కనిపించవు.
ప్రస్తుతం ఆధునిక ఎల్‌హెచ్‌బీ కోచ్‌లను ఏర్పాటు చేస్తున్నారు. ఇవి వేగాన్ని తట్టుకుని ప్రయాణిస్తాయి. ప్రమాదాలు జరిగినప్పుడు ఒక బోగీపై మరోటి ఎక్కకుండా ఉంటాయి.

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Railways seeks Innovative Ideas from public on Coach Design

20 Dec, 2016  in Coaching / Indian Railways by rail

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The Indian Railways has sought from the public innovative ideas to increase passenger-carrying capacity of coaches, ensure easy accessibility to trains from low-level platforms and develop new digital capabilities at stations.

Luxury coaches designed by Coach Rehabilitation Workshop Bhopal

New Delhi: The Indian Railways has sought from the public innovative ideas to increase passenger-carrying capacity of coaches, ensure easy accessibility to trains from low-level platforms and develop new digital capabilities at stations. It has announced cash rewards for best innovative ideas on various aspects, including new design of wagons for efficient loading and transportation of new commodities.

A campaign has been launched by the railways seeking innovative ideas from all citizens/sections of the country to improve working of the public transporter, said a senior Railway Ministry official.

Almost every citizen of the country has personal experience with the railways, thus it is hoped that they will participate in this campaign with full zeal and zest.

In order to encourage people’s participation in the contest, the railways has offered total six prizes worth Rs 12 lakh. The railways has categorised five challenges that are aimed at promoting innovation in the country by focusing on specific problems being faced by the public transporter.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu had announced in his budget that a campaign would be launched in this regard.

The official said that today’s generation is very innovative and technology savvy and the coming time will be completely digital. Thus, the railways can benefit a lot if innovative ideas are sought from all citizens and the chosen ones are implemented.

The campaign will be a kind of brainstorming for all.

According to the railways, participation procedure, terms and conditions, eligibility, guidelines are available at website — http://innovate.mygov.in/. Last date for submitting online application is December 20.

Railways back to the Drawing Board on many key Modernisation Plans after Modi rider

13 Apr 2018 in Category(ies): Posted onCategoriesIndian Railways, Railway Board/Ministry

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is evaluating several of its modernisation and capacity addition plans announced in the past few months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the national transporter to pick only those projects that made financial sense and used mostly the existing resources.

During a recent review meeting with the officials of Rail Board, the top decisionmaking body of Indian Railways, the PM asked officials to evaluate the 100% signalling upgradation, electrification, expansion of WiFi, installing escalators among other plans before going ahead with them. According to top officials, Modi is learnt to have said that any project that railways wanted to go ahead with should be financially viable and should only be implemented using the available resources.

In terms of having a 100% new signalling system called the European Train Control System 2, railways was told that such systems should only be installed after extensive trials while keeping the cost in mind. The PM also said that railways should think about using the indigenous technology, if available.

Indian Railways had recently announced moving to the advanced European system, which would allow it to increase the train running capacity on the existing tracks.

The ministry official said that as per the directions of the PM, the evaluation is being carried out. Any new technology will be introduced only if it is proven in Indian conditions and is cost efficient, a view that is shared by rail minister Piyush Goyal, the official said.

On the rail ministry’s plan of 100% electrification of the network, the ministry was told that such a target should be examined with regards to the global practice where the mix of diesel and electric traction is a preferred mode.

“Diesel traction will remain relevant for many areas and premature condemnation of diesel engines must not be done and the legal and financial liability should properly be examined in consultation with the law and finance departments,” the ministry was told.

“We are moving as per budget targets for electrification which for the current year is more than 6,000 km. By 100% electrification, we meant the main lines where the traffic is high and electric traction is more viable,” he said.

Railways had earlier set the target to electrify around 38,000 km of its remaining rail network by 2022. This would have made the entire 66,000 km of rail network fully electrified. Railways had earlier claimed that by phasing out polluting diesel engines, it wold save at least Rs 10,000 crore a year in fuel costs.

Railways’ safety record in 2017-2018 best in 57 years, shows official data!

16 Apr 2018 in Category(ies): Posted onCategoriesIndian Railways

In fact, the previous best track renewal was 4,175 km in 2004-2005, when the transporter was given a rehabilitation plan with a fund of Rs 17,000 crore.

NEW DELHI: The railways has maintained the best safety record in 2017-2018 fiscal in over five decades, according to official figures. As of March 30, 73 accidents were reported across the railway network, compared to 104 in the previous fiscal, the lowest in 57 years.

“The main reason behind the improvement is track renewal, the railways carried out renewal of 4,405 km of old rails in 2017-2018. This is the highest ever progress of rail renewal and exceeds the target of 4,400 km kept for the year,” a senior official of the ministry said.

In fact, the previous best track renewal was 4,175 km in 2004-2005, when the transporter was given a rehabilitation plan with a fund of Rs 17,000 crore.

This fiscal has also recorded the longest ever distance travelled by trains. In 1960-61, trains collectively travelled just 388.1 million train km as compared to 1170.7 million train km in 2017-2018.

Train kilometer is the unit of measure of distance which corresponds to the movement of a train over one kilometer.

Significantly, despite trains having travelled an additional 74 million train km in 2017-2018 as compared to the last five years, accidents have remained at an all time low.

As far as accidents are concerned, while in 1960-61, the number was 2131, it came down to 840 in 1970-71, in 1980-81 it stood at 1,013, in 1990-91 it recorded 532 accidents, in 2010-11 there were 141 such cases, as per the figures.

The casualty figures also have gone down. In 2016-17, 607 people were injured or killed in train accidents, in 2017-2018, the number stood at 254.

While derailments have come down from 78 in 2016-2017 to 54 in 2017-2018, accidents at level crossings stood at 13 in 2017-2018 as compared to 30 the previous year.

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Trial Run on 190 km Dedicated Rail Freight Corridor a Success

28 Mar 2018 in Category(ies): Posted onCategoriesDedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCCIL)

Locomotive clocks 100 kmph in 1st trial run on western dedicated freight corridor. The distance between two stations is 190 kms which was covered in 3 hours and 52 minutes. The trial run on the eastern corridor of DFC was carried out in March 2016.

NEW DELHI: The DFCCIL on Tuesday said it had successfully conducted the trial run on the 190-km Ateli-Phulera section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor at a maximum speed of 100 kmph in less than four hours.

“Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Ltd. (DFCCIL) achieved a historic feet by successfully completing the trial run on its western corridor for the first time,” it said in a release.

According to the DFFCIL, the trial run of the Railways locomotive was conducted from Ateli in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district to Phulera in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district during the day.

“The locomotive covered 190 km in 3 hours and 52 minutes and touched a maximum speed of 100 kmph,” it said. The section has over 10 viaducts and major bridges, 127 minor bridges, one rail flyover and 118 under-bridges.

The 3,373-km DFC, a flagship project of the Railways, aims to augment rail transport capacity to meet the growing requirement of movement of goods by segregating freight from passenger traffic. The Eastern Corridor of the DFC runs from Ludhiana to Dankuni (1856 Kms) and the Western Corridor from Dadri to Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, Mumbai (1504 Kms).

The Western DFC runs from Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai to Tughlakabad and Dadri near Delhi, and aims to cater largely to the container transport requirements between the existing and emerging ports in Maharashtra and Gujarat and the northern hinterland.

The 1,839 km Eastern DFC runs from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni near Kolkata — to be extended in future to serve the new deep-sea port proposed in the Kolkata area, and will largely handle coal and steel traffic.

The DFCCIL plans to run freight trains at a maximum speed of 100 kmph as against the current 75 kmph. It also plans to increase the average speed of freight trains from the existing 26 kmph to 70 kmph on the DFC.

The Western Corridors is being funded by Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), while the Eastern Corridor from Mughalsarai to Ludhiana is being funded by the World Bank.

Rs.10 lakh-Crore HSR Corridor

Rs.10 lakh-Crore HSR Corridor connecting all major cities along the lines of Bharatmala Highways Development Program soon

5 Mar 2018 in Category(ies): Posted onCategoriesIndian Railways, Railway Board/Ministry

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways would soon announce a Rs 10 lakh-crore high-speed train corridors construction plan to connect all major cities in the country, covering almost 10,000 kilometres, along the lines of the government’s Bharatmala highways development programme.

“The plan would be announced in April,” a top rail ministry official said. “We’ll unveil the routes that would be connected along with the funding mechanism,” an official from Railway Board told. Trains would be able to run at 200 km per hour on the new rail lines that would come elevated atop the existing or upcoming national highways or on rail land that runs parallel to existing rail routes, the official said.

Railways would come out with large tenders, inviting all global majors, to keep the cost of construction minimal. The government plans to build double lines on single pillars to halve the cost of construction from Rs 200 crore per km to Rs 100 crore per km. Also, light-weight aluminium coaches would be specifically designed for trains to be run on electric traction.

The mechanism of funding would most likely be borrowings from financial institutions and multilateral agencies along with monetising land bank. “The operational profitability of such projects is high as the revenues would also come from non-fare box such as commercial exploitation of stations as metro has done,” the official said. Railways minister Piyush Goyal has asked his officials to work on speed, scale and skill to achieve early implementation of these projects.

The government is currently constructing a 534 km-long bullet train corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad at a cost of over Rs 1 lakh crore. The project is likely to be completed by the end of 2022.

Feasibility studies for various other corridors including Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Kolkata and Bengaluru-Chennai have already been done.

At the recently held Summit, Goyal had laid down his blueprint for the transformation of railways in country that included bringing high speed technology to the country along with overhauling the signalling network on rail routes

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