Hyderabad: Another feather in South Central Railway cap

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) positioned itself as the top zone amongst all the zones over Indian Railways in execution of track maintenance works by efficiently utilizing the reduced train movement during the period from May 1 to 25, 2020. The SCR is one of the important zones on Indian Railways spread over a total of 6336 km of railway network, connecting around 754 stations and running an average about 750 passenger carrying trains and around 300 goods trains each day on its tracks.

Track maintenance is a crucial part of train operations, which has a direct impact on both the safety of tracks as well as in maintaining the maximum permissible speed of the train on the tracks. Considering the importance of this as well as the reduced flow of train movements currently, the Zone has drawn a meticulous plan to utilise this period for strengthening their rail tracks for the benefit of all train movements. The strengthening of tracks, points, crossings, sleepers and ballast for enhancing the safety, speed and reliability helped SCR achieve targets.

As a result, the zone has been able to achieve the highest progress in terms of Track Machine Working across the Indian Railways from 01. May to 25. May 2020. Important Track machines have been utilised during this period including Plain packing Machines, Turnout Packing (UNIMAT) Machines, Ballast Cleaning Machines and PQRS Machines.

Plain packing Machine: It is being done by using 3x. CSM,WST machines to measure the existing track parameters and to lift the track to enable for correction of alignment, longitudinal & cross levels and also for Tamping/packing of ballast under the sleepers in order to strengthen the track. A total of 984 Kms length work has been completed by the Zone during the above period, which is almost 10% of the work executed by Indian Railways.