Indian Railways executes pending maintenance works during lockdown

GUWAHATI: Backend warriors of Indian Railways have successfully executed long-pending maintenance works like Yard remodelling, Renewal of scissors crossover, repairs of bridges during this lockdown. Pending for several years, they often confronted Indian Railways as bottlenecks.

Apart from ensuring supply chains all essential commodities running through parcel trains and freight trains, Indian Railways executed these long pending maintenance works during this lockdown period when passenger services were suspended due to COVID -19.

Around 500 modern heavy duty Track Maintenance Machines along with track, signal and Overhead Equipment (OHE) maintainers have worked regularly for 10,749 machine days to complete overdue track maintenance of 12,270 km plain track and 5263 nos. of Turn outs.

Health of the track has been monitored through periodic runs of Oscillation Monitoring System (OMS) cumulating 1, 92,488 kms. of track at 5362 peak locations indicated by OMS test has been attended to ensure proper quality. Ultrasonic flaw detection (USFD) of 30,182 kms of track and 1, 34,443 rail welds has been carried out with USFD machine. Critical summer precaution activities like de-stressing of long welded rail (LWR)which involved huge men power has been taken up with a new procedure for carrying out the work by ensuring social distancing norms. 2,246 kms of de-stressing of LWR has been done till last month.

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