Advanced Transportation

Types of Goods Trains

 

1. Shunting Trains

  • Carries inward loaded wagons and empties to be supplied for loading at intermediate stations and pickup outward loaded or empty wagons from those stations.
  • These trains perform only shunting at intermediate stations and no loading/ unloading is done on the train.
  • Wagons detached enroute as sick and subsequently made fit are also collected.

2. Pilots

Marshalling Yards

  • Marshalling Yard is a place where goods trains are received, sorted, reformed and dispatched.
  • A yard is a classifying and distributing machine with facilities for receiving, sorting and despatching wagons to their various destinations after the prescribed attention.
  • A yard has a network of tracks, divided into several grids for receiving, sorting, forming and despatching of trains.

Factories Act 1948

The Government of India has enacted this Act during 1948 to provide safeguard to the workers against exploitation by the employers and to ensure their safety, health and welfare. This Act also provides minimum period of rest , payment of wages for extra hours of duty and enjoins on the employer certain obligation towards the employee.

Anti Collision Device (ACD)

  • Anti Collision Device (ACD) is a fully integrated Electronic Control System designed to minimize collisions and increase safety on Railway system.
  • It is a non signaling system and provides additional cover of safety in train operations to prevent dangerous train collisions caused due to human errors or limitations and equipment failure.
  • ACD system does not interfere with normal working of train operations.

Control Office Application (COA)

  • Control Office Application (COA) is comprehensive software for the automation of Control Charting at a railway divisional control office.
  • COA is intended to replace the tedious manual plotting of running trains on a chart.
  • The core functionality of the control charting with ergonomics is intended to provide the Traffic Controllers good look-and-feel and user-friendly work environment.

Calculating Crew Requirement Of A Division

  • Running staff review should be carried out after every six months i.e. on 15t Jan. and 1st July by the division.
  • Before preparing review, loco pilot's links of all the sheds have to be prepared and vetted by personnel branch.
  • Statement of average hours on road and number of goods trains ran during last six months for each section should be ready duly approved by Sr.DOM/DOM.
  • A list of shunting' specials and DMTs running to be prepared and signed by Sr. DOM/DOM.
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