Indian Railways

Naresh · 04-15-2006, 12:33 AM

Mudy Ji :

C O R R E C T I O N

Mistook took place!

Indonesian Rail Gauge : Mainly CAP also known as Cape Gauge - 1067 MM

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Naresh · 06-20-2006, 03:09 PM

Evidence of the âSuper Intelligent 400% Better Educated Abdul the Pakistani Bulbulâ <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' />

Sabotage & train tracks

TRAIN tracks are being sabotaged and their fish-plates are removed, causing unsafe situations. According to a recent news report, the Pakistan Railways is considering welding of the fish-plates to the tracks, eliminating this possibility.

Modern train tracks are welded together and the length of a single track is 400 metres against the current run length of 10 to 12 metres. This not only reduces maintenance but it also makes the journey smooth. In Japan bullet train Shinkansen runs on welded lines. If we replace our current train tracks with the upgraded materials, the chances of sabotage will be reduced 40 times.

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Such is the mental capacity of the Pakistanis!

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08-17-2006, 08:50 PM

Lalu's gift

Rlys works overtime on Rs 60-cr link: Lalu village with Rabriâs
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 16:While scores of railway projects wait to take off, work on the 20.9-km stretch between Hathua and Bathua Bazar on the Hathua-Bhatni section of North Eastern Railway is moving at a breakneck pace.

The reason: On completion, it will connect Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadavâs ancestral village, Phulwaria, with that of his wife Rabri Devi, Salar Kalan, just 2.9 km apart. 

The line from Hathua will touch Lain Bazar, Salar Khurd, and Phulwaria before reaching Bathua Bazar, and all these places in Gopalganj district will have new railway stations. Salar Khurd will serve as the station for Rabriâs Salar Kalan.

Rabri is learnt to have requested Yadav to get both their villages connected by rail some time back.

08-17-2006, 08:54 PM

Lalu's gift to Rae Barelly

Lalu has a rail coach factory for Soniaâs Rae Bareli
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 11:The Indian Railways has proposed to set up a modern rail coach factory (RCF) in Rae Bareli at a cost of around Rs 1,000 crore. This was announced by Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in Lok Sabha in his reply following the discussions on the Railwaysâ Supplementary Budget.

08-17-2006, 09:24 PM

When they will have railway station in 10 Janpath?

08-18-2006, 10:56 PM

The Indian railways have initiated several new measures to enhance its efficiency and services. It has first gone in with the small measures which could be taken almost immediately. For example the speed limit restriction over varios sections of different Railways had never been reviewed since I am told the year 1922. Only ad hoc reviews had taken place. Similarly, the full review of the time table had also not been done for many years. Naturally the stops of many important trains at major railway stations were according to the time needed for change of engine or for filling the water tank of the Steam Engine. With the introduction of the modern diesel and solid state electric locomotives, such long halts are no longer required. Simlilary, in matters of handling of freight traffic many vintage rules and procedures have been changed to increase the efficiency. The current years Railway Budget was indicative of the better performance of the Railways.
Recently, to face the new challange to passanger traffic in the higher classes from the low cost airlines, special measures have been introduced to make rail journey more comfortable.Now daily change of menu has been introduced in superfast trains.

Naresh · 09-14-2006, 03:55 AM

Concor ready to ship more

AHMEDABAD : After successful trial runs from Gujaratâs Mundra and Pipavav ports to Kanakpura in Jaipur, the Container Corporation of India (Concor) has decided to operate double-decker container trains (double stack rakes) on a regular basis to leading towns of the country, particularly to hinterlands of North India.

Till recently, a full-fledged container train used to carry export-import containers having a loading capacity of 90 TEUs. Now, the same train would now be able to carry 180 TEUs, said Kamal Jain, chief manager, Concor, Ahmedabad.

Movement of double stack rakes was pioneered by Concor in India.

This has helped the company in doubling its capacity in one rake by utilising special low-bed container wagons for the purpose. Import containers are moved to Jaipur from Pipavav and then further moved to the northern hinterland destinations like Delhi and Ludhiana.

The company also proposes to divert all import cargoes (containers) from JNPT port to Mundra Port. The move will not only decongest the JNPT port, but also help in delivering goods to traders based in North India at a competitive rate and in lesser time, Mr Jain said.

Concor also proposes to shift its operation of inland container depot from Sabarmati to Khodiyar terminal to a more spacious premise. Due to an increase in trade over the years, and no further scope to expand facilities at the existing inland container depot at Sabarmati, Concor has decided to move its Exim business to its Khodiyar depot.

Khodiyar is well connected with JNPT, NSICT, GTIL, Pipavav and Mundra Ports by rail and road. Moreover, after the gauge conversion (to BG) of the Palanpur-Gandhidham line, the rake movement in this sector (Mundra and Kandla) has become smoother, Jain added.

Meanwhile the Sabarmati Inland Container Depot has reported an annual growth of 46.5% in import traffic during â05-06 as compared to the previous year.

Main commodities imported included newsprint, waste paper, chemicals, LDPE, electric equipment, assembly lines, machinery, electronic goods, foods stuff, and metal scrap.

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Naresh · 09-23-2006, 06:05 PM

Get on track to be Viceroy of India

MUMBAI : Indiaâs luxury train travel industry is getting on to the fast track. The latest addition â Viceroy of India â not only marks the maiden entry of a foreign player but also comes on the back of an immense private interest in the sector, hitherto dominated by Indian Railways.

When the Viceroy of India train, run by the Britain-based GW Travel, began its maiden journey from Mumbai to Darjeeling earlier this month, it was the first luxury train to run right across the subcontinent, from the western end to the eastern fringes. The other well-known luxury train, the Palace on Wheels, only runs on the Rajasthan-Delhi route.

For feeling like a viceroy you will have to fork out like a maharaja. A fifteen-day tour can cost you anywhere between Â£ 5,695 and Â£ 13,195, depending upon the class you opt for. Donât take out your calculators, we will make it easy for you â in Indian currency it will make your purse lighter by Rs 4.96 lakh to Rs 11.5 lakh.

The potential of luxury tourism travel prompted Cox&Kings to tie up with GW Travel and take care of the logistics of Viceroy of India. Cox&Kings will also market the travel in Europe and the US, to attract potential tourists.

The Viceroy of India train has been chartered by GW Travel from Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and the Railways provides the drivers. âThis is an inaugural trip, but interest in the journey from potential passengers from around the world has been so great that the initial journeys for the next year have already sold out and we are negotiating more,â said GW Travel MD Tim Littler.

GW Travel has been running luxury trains in Russia and China and is known for Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express that covers 10,000 km. It plans to increase the number of trains in India to six by next year. Also among GW Travelâs list is a luxury train in Lhasa, Tibet, on what will be the highest railway track in the world.

According to Arup Sen, executive director at Cox&Kings, âThe Palace on Wheels travels within north India whereas the Deccan Odyssey covers Maharashtra and Goa. There are many regions that still remain unexplored like southern and eastern India.â Other luxury carriers such as Fairy Queen, Heritage on Wheels and The Royal Orient cater to the Delhi-Rajasthan sector only.

Companies like GW Travel are banking on an exponential increase in touristsâ traffic. âOut of the 3.9m tourists who came to India last year, only 3,735 travelled by luxury trains,â said Mr Sen. Only 1% of the tourists coming to India travelled by luxury trains, which is much lower than the world average of 6%. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, out of the almost 1.5bn global tourists last year, 10.2m travelled by luxury trains.

Encouraged by the growing popularity, the Railways has got 10 proposals from private players to operate luxury trains. âOur rail network is excellent. Luxury train service is the highest revenue earning service for the railways so it gets priority in allotment of slots. This is an untapped potential,â said Mr Sen.

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09-26-2006, 07:55 AM

The foundation laying ceremoney for the freight corridor in the Eastern Sector has been announced. When implemented , it would further enhance the freight handling capacity of the Indian Railways.
There is also media report that the Railway Ministry is to announce shortly the reduction in fare for AC Class by 30 per cent, to give a run for money to the low cost airlines.

10-07-2006, 01:05 AM

Garib Rath - Economical A/C trains from all state capitals to New Delhi.

Image: An underprivileged woman looks at the Garib Rath, the low-cost air-conditioned train on its arrival at Amritsar railway station from Sahrasa on Thursday. On Thursday, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav promised to introduce more such trains from Delhi to state capitals

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Naresh · 11-01-2006, 01:06 AM

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Set to chug in Kashmir's bewitching landscape in snowy February 2007, the first-ever trial train to Kashmir took off for the Valley on Tuesday not on traditional tracks but on the 300 km-long Jammu-Srinagar national highway, adding another historic chapter to the Rs 4,700 crore Jammu-Udhampur-Qazigund-Srinagar-Baramulla national rail project.

"It is addition of another chapter to the history of Indian Railways and Kashmir's national rail project, as the first trial diesel mobile unit coach on Tuesday left for Kashmir's Budgam railway station by taking a road route and not a train track from Jammu railway station," Divisional Mechinical Engineer (Northern Railways) Shiv Ram told PTI.

Soon after the 36-wheeled train pulled by a 460 HP special engine drove up the Jammu-Srinagar highway at 0700 hours, Ram said, "It sounds incredible, but the train is running on the highway from Jammu to Badgam via Srinagar. It has happened for the first time in the history of the Indian Railways that a DMU has run on a road."

Amid chanting of mantras and showering of flowers, the train, fitted with 36 big truck wheels, zig-zagged through serpentine road as people watched it chugging on the highway along with trucks and buses. Struck by surprise as the train criss-crossed the highway, onlookers on roads, in buses and from houses thronging the road stood dumbfounded.

"The only difference is that these trains are equipped not with normal iron wheels but with special truck tyres," Ram said.

Such a spectacle, a rare feat of engineering, will become a reality as first of 24 coaches left for Budgam railway station in central Kashmir. This has been made possible by replacing iron wheels of the coaches with truck tyres, which will be pulled by a trailer-truck having 460 HP specially designed engine, he said.

Feeling himself as a man walking into the history of Indian Railways and Kashmir rail project, driver of train Joginder Singh was a happy and proud person. Hailing from Bihar's Fazipora district, Singh said, "I have done Railways proud by carrying a most invaluable gift to Kashmiris."

Determined to carry all the 24 wagons to Kashmir valley for facilitating commencement of train traffic in valley in February next year, Singh said: "I will drive this train to Kashmir in anyway and this would be a small step in integrating Kashmir with rest of the country through rail traffic. I have carried many heavy equipment and other items to difficult hilly and treacherous road tracks across India including Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, but this driving a train on kashmir hills is a challenge, a milestone to cross."

Ram said once the coaches reached Badam railway yard, the truck tyres will be replaced by iron wheels for a normal run on rail tracks. Roads have been widened by cutting the corners wherever needed for the movement of this special vehicle, he added.

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11-12-2006, 08:47 AM

Lalu to build hotels on railway land QUOTENew Delhi: Asserting that Railways' surplus land would be used for commercial purposes keeping social responsibility in mind, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has announced construction of 100 budget hotels across the country through public-private partnership.
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I hope not maintained by railways, otherwise it will be like any other waiting room in railway station.

11-15-2006, 02:05 AM

Mira Nair should make movies on same theme about Africa, her husband's homeland.

QUOTEI also hated(and still do) Lalu but what he has done with indian railways also cannot be ignored inspite of fodder scam.
How many accidents per year? Please check no. of train robberies. Let him leave railway ministry you will know how much he had scammed in food, coal and land. He is the same guy who had appointed Banerjee commission to prove 59 women and children committed suicide in Godhra and VHP people assaulted him outside hospital. For his daughter's wedding his goons ransacked and looted car dealers. So justfying crook Lalu is what media is doing. They want to beileve he is a good Railway minister because his image is created by media.
I don't want to go further as political threads are for this purpose.

So again it depend what one want to see and ignore. Yes, it is individual choice. Those who believes in media propaganda and those who can see through.

11-15-2006, 02:36 AM

Regarding Laloo (off topic) nobody's bothered to list Lalu's achievement in terms of policy or measures put in place since Jun '04 that has made Indian Railways whatever it is.

QUOTEThe Mahabharat TV series was inspired by the epic Mahabharat, one of two Sanskrit epics of ancient India, and was one of the biggest television hits in Indian broadcasting history.
Sanjay Khan too did a Mahabharat TV series recently. Wasn't bad.

BTW, talked to some people who did 'girls night out' to see the new Umrao Jaan. They absolutely *hated* it <!--emo& Big Grin

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Naresh · 11-16-2006, 05:19 AM

Railways short lists 2 cos for China rail link study

LAHORE â Pakistan Railways management has short listed two companies one from China and another a joint German-Austrian company for the study of the 1,000-km track from Havelian upto a location in Sinkiang province in China.

According to details the feasibility study would include the 750-Km track winding through the Karakoram Range in the northern areas and 250-Km track in the South Chinese province.

The study was initially intended to be awarded to a single Chinese firm that approached the Chairman Railways in July 2006. Later the study tender was widened to include as many as 13 contenders. The short listing has been reached after an informal vetting by the ministry.

The study has been commissioned for completion in the six to nine month time. Sources linked to the project told The Nation that the project would take more than a decade to complete on the single premise that the area is mountainous and in most of the cases tunnels would have to be identified and created along the route.

When queried about the proximity of the proposed rail track along the Karakoram Highway and the under construction Basha Dam, they told that issue has been already taken into consideration and the final lay out of the track and tunnel would only take place, when the KKH has been accordingly uplifted for the above mentioned dam site.

Here it may be mentioned that the area where the dam, KKH and rail track are to be located has a peculiar soil structure, that needs concrete application and engineering along the tunnels as well as the track. That would entail more investment as well as time. The sources argued that the tunnel creation and concrete application would be such a long and painstaking process that it would take years for the project engineers to reach the Basha Dam site.

Regards cost estimates, the railway engineers linked to the project said that given the fact that the recently completed Tibet China rail link cost approximately US $ 5 million per one kilometre, in the case of northern areas, the bill per kilometer can be even higher. They said that the design would invariably involve more than the warranted tunnels. According to the safe estimate, the whole project would entail US $ 5 Billion (Rs 300 Billion) approximately.

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11-16-2006, 05:30 AM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Nov 11 2006, 11:17 PM)Lalu to build hotels on railway land <div class='quotetop'>QUOTENew Delhi: Asserting that Railways' surplus land would be used for commercial purposes keeping social responsibility in mind, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad has announced construction of 100 budget hotels across the country through public-private partnership.
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11-16-2006, 04:53 PM

QUOTE(Mudy @ Nov 15 2006, 02:05 AM)How many accidents per year? Please check no. of train robberies. Let him leave railway ministry you will know how much he had scammed in food, coal and land. He is the same guy who had appointed Banerjee commission to prove 59 women and children committed suicide in Godhra and VHP people assaulted him outside hospital. For his daughter's wedding his goons ransacked and looted car dealers. So justfying crook Lalu is what media is doing. They want to beileve he is a good Railway minister because his image is created by media.
I don't want to go further as political threads are for this purpose.

So again it depend what one want to see and ignore. Yes, it is individual choice. Those who believes in media propaganda and those who can see through.
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I never said profit of railways is due to lalu but the fact remains that railways had recorded profit during the tenure when he is a minister and you cant ignore that. whether or not it is because of him will always be debated.

Indian railways is one of the best in world. Compare the accident statistics for global railways and you will get what I mean. Obviously this has nothing to do with any minister as this has been the case for a long time.

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11-16-2006, 06:48 PM

<img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /> and u don't discuss ur impression in this post; discuss it where it's relevant.
Lalu is being discussed in 'political leaders and beaurocrat' in political section:
http://o3.indiatimes.com/lalupm/
I will delete this 1 once u have reached relevant discussion in relevant section.

11-16-2006, 08:07 PM

Anish/Mudy/Capt. Kumar,

Moved posts to this Indian Railways thread. Discuss it here please.

Anish: Personal opinion irrevelant to thread deleted or discuss in appropriate thread using proper context.

11-16-2006, 08:18 PM

Railways shone while Lalu was away
QUOTELalu Prasad has hardly been seen in Rail Bhavan in New Delhi during the last several months. So busy he has been with electoral politics in Bihar that he found little time to pay attention to the railway ministry. Even for presenting the railway budget last February, Lalu Prasad had to work hard to excuse himself from Bihar and be present in the Lok Sabha to read out the railway budget speech.

That may well have been a blessing in disguise. In Lalu Prasad's long absence, his officials took charge of the Indian Railways and drove it rather well.


QUOTEBut it is an open secret that Lalu Prasad's preoccupation with politics in Bihar left him with little time for anything else and that gave the Rail Bhavan mandarins a free hand to do what is good for the Indian Railways.

So, what did the officials do while the minister was away in Bihar? Well, they discovered the Gujral formula and put that to effective use.

The Gujral formula had a three-pronged strategy. One, increase the freight load of each wagon by 8 tonnes. Two, ensure a longer and extended run by freight trains without changing the locomotive engines. And three, reduce the frequency of checking wagons and tracks during a journey.

Anyone know more of this Gujral forumla?

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