Railways utilize off-track period in maintenance to accomplish safety upgrade work
Ferozepur, September 30, 2020: Railway – known as the Life Line of India - is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on tracks. However, with the passage of time, the Railway has switched over to various hi-tech platforms in this digital era making the best use of off-track period, dur to Corona pandemic, in maintenance, to accomplish safety upgrade work.
DRM Firozpur, Rajesh Agrawal congratulated the team of Engineers for showing their best abilities of Railway Engineering to accomplish this long pending safety upgrade in time. While, New tracks of this layouts will make smoother and safe train movements in Amritsar Yard, it is like a feather in cap for Firozpur Division to accomplish yet another challenging safety upgrade.
DRM said, the Highly Engineered and high precision level task made elimination of a safety bottleneck possible, which was due since years being laid on old wooden sleepers in Non-Standard Layout. Quintessential Upgrade was planned on to provide prestressed concrete sleepers (PSC) with special tailer made twin set sleepers from Railway own sleeper manufacturing plant Khalispur, Varanasi.
He said, while renewal job was daunting requiring long preparations and continuous traffic closure of 5 days, it was still a tough job even during select special train movements and required short closure/ cancellations of trains from Amritsar during work. Seeing opportunity of cancellations of trains, 4 blocks of 5 hrs each undertaken from 25/09- 28/09 and finally all balance work was completed successfully on 29/09 in and 8 hr traffic block.
Firozpur Division has yet again turned crisis into opportunity by doing this safety upgrade, while trains got cancelled due to unfavourable conditions of law and order to complete long pending safety works, he added.
He further said, Civil Engineering team worked hand in shoulder with skilled team of Amritsar workshop, S&T and facilities, where a team of hard core Engineers machined the Special kind of Steel structure for Diamond shape portion. It was Followed by a precision drilling of holes and installation over a prototype near its site, then Matching assembly and fitting work was completed in just few days.
This Scissor type Crossover works like a King point of yard to help in most train movements of Amritsar yard. Upgrade was unthinkable in normal train movements. Only prevalent unfavourable traffic conditions gave a window of opportunity to help completing it without an effect on train movement.
General Manager Northern Railway with Head Quarter officers also conveyed appreciation to the Divisional team and granted Cash Award.