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The Mechanical Department
The Mechanical Department is responsible for maintenance of ‘assets on
wheels’ – Diesel locomotives, Coaches and Wagons. This task is carried out
through a network of diesel loco sheds, coaching depots, wagon depots and
workshops with the goal of ensuring
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Adequate availability
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Reliability
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Passenger comfort
and perhaps the most important goal being
Safety in train operation.
In addition, the Department maintains and operates Disaster Management
Equipments (Accident Relief Trains in Railway parlance) which include
140-tonne diesel Hydraulic cranes and hydraulic re-railing equipments,
Self-propelled Relief trains). Specially trained ‘Quick-response-teams’ man
these equipments on 24-hour alert located at strategic points
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South Central Railway
has three Workshops to carry out POH (Periodic Over hauling) of Coaching and
Freight stock.
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Details of the activities, monthly and annual production output of the
Workshops:
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S.No
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Name Of workshop
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Location
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Activity |
Monthly target |
Annual target |
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1
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Carriage Repair Shop
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Lallaguda
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Periodic Overhauling(POH)
of coaches |
122 Vehicle Units (VUs) |
1464 VUs
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2
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Carriage Repair Shop
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Tirupathi
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POH of coaches |
85 VUs |
1020 VUs
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3
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Wagon
Repair shop
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Guntupalli
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POH of Wagons |
360 VUs |
4320 VUs
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Wagon Depots:
Holding: 18794 BG
Wagons, 301 MG Wagons
There are three major
and one minor ROH Depots for freight stock. They are situated at Ramagundam,
Gooty, Vijayawada and Bellampally. These depots carry out overhauling of
BOXN and BCN stock at fixed intervals of 18 months (for BCN stock after 24
months) after POH is completed in workshops. Major ROH depots are under the
supervision of Assistant Mechanical Engineers. These ROH depots ensure
better quality repairs so that the rolling stocks can run up to 7500 Kms or
35 days whichever is earlier.
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Coach Holding: 3320
(BG), 108 (MG)
South Central Railway
has one mega, 4 major, 4 medium and 4 minor coaching depots, where 74
passenger and express trains are maintained. These depots carry out primary
and secondary maintenance of these Express trains. Prime importance is given
for passenger amenities, safety, disinfection and cleanliness of passenger
trains. In addition to maintenance, these depots carry out A, B, C Schedules
and intermediate overhaul of coaching stock of express and super fast
trains, which are earning more than 2 lakh Kms / year. |
Coaching
Depots Locations with their holdings:
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S. No. |
Depot |
Coach holding |
Classification |
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1 |
Hyderabad |
543 |
Mega |
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2 |
Secunderabad |
481 |
Major |
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3 |
Tirupathi |
410 |
Major |
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4 |
Kacheguda |
408 |
Major |
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5 |
Vijayawada |
335 |
Major |
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6 |
Narasapur |
224 |
Medium |
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7 |
Nanded |
217 |
Medium |
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8 |
Kakinada |
190 |
Medium |
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9 |
Guntur |
154 |
Medium |
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10 |
Purna |
119 |
Minor |
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11 |
Kazipet |
92 |
Minor |
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12 |
Guntakal |
67 |
Minor |
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13 |
Machilipatnam |
25 |
Minor |
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Diesel Loco Sheds are the front-line Strategic Business Units. They are
well-equipped and self-contained to undertake preventive and corrective
maintenance of diesel locomotives. South Central Railway has diesel loco
sheds at Guntakal, Gooty (both in Anantapur Dist), Kazipet(Warrangal Dist),
Moula Ali (Hyderabad, Rangareddy Dist) and Vijayawada (Krishna Dist) of
Andhra Pradesh. These sheds have a holding of 451 locomotives to cater both
passenger and freight traffic. In addition to 31 DEMUs and 9 DHMUs
maintaining at Vijayawada & Moula Ali respectively to cater passenger and
suburban services. 2 Rail buses are also maintaining at Vijayawada to cater
the passenger services between Kakinada- Kotipalli section of Vijayawada
division. These sheds also have captive fuelling facilities.
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Location of locomotive sheds & thier
holdings:
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S No.
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Location
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Loco holding
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Types locos
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Population Type
Wise
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1
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Kazipet
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138
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WDM2
WDG3A
WDG3A
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45
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70
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2
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Gooty
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122
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WDM3A
WDG3A
WDM3D
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23
95
4
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3
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Guntakal
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108
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WDM2
YDM4
WDM3A
WDM3D
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64
14
18
12
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4
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Moula Ali
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72
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WDM2
WDS4
DHMU
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51
12
9
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5
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Vijayawada
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51
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WDP1
WDS4
DEMU
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15
5
31
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Human resources are probably
the most important asset of India. Effective utilisation of this asset is
the responsibility of any organisation, especially for an organization like
Indian Railways, which employs 16 Lakh persons to run their services.
Training is an important tool to develop efficiency of human resources. The
Mechanical Department of the South Central Railway has developed modern
methods and facilities of training to train its supervisors & artisan
staff.
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Training to all cadres of railway staff is ensured not only at the
time of entry in to service, but periodical refresher courses are given to
update the knowledge and to keep abreast with the latest developments in
technology.
Supervisor Training
Centre/ Lallaguda
This institute gives
training to the supervisors of all units of Mechanical in particular in the
functions of Technical, Managerial and Safety aspects of Maintenance and
running of trains. This institute is conducting different course in the
modules prescribed by the Railway Board annually and about 1000 staff are
trained from April’2007 to February’2008. With the newly upgraded 4 new
Labs facilities, the institute has introduced new courses such as Advanced
Mechatronics, Air Brake System, Accident Management, Pneumatics &
Hydraulics, Advanced Welding Technology, Induction
course in Welding, Welding Refresher course, Data Base Management.
SCR has
three major training establishments viz., STC (Supervisors’ Training Centre
at Lallaguda) and DTTC (Diesel Traction Training Centre at Guntakal and
Kazipet)
besides 7 training centers are located at various
field units and workshops viz. at KCG, RDM, BZA,GY,LGDS,TPTYS,RYPS.
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At the Mechanical
Department, great emphasis is laid on innovation and improvement, as the
means to improve the quality of service. The thrust areas in this direction
are:
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Accreditation of
ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management and ISO 14001 Environmental Management
Systems for workshops, diesel sheds and coaching depots.
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Cleanliness - Due
attention is given for cleanliness of coaches. Vijayawada and Guntakal
stations on South Central Railway are nominated as Clean Train Stations.
High pressure water jet cleaning plants have been introduced for
effective cleaning of coaches.
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Power points for
Lap-top and Cell phone - To provide additional amenity to passengers for
the first time, air-conditioned coaches are being provided with
Electrical points for charging Lap-tops/ Mobile phones.
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Rake-out – A
system of turning out the coaches in the form of rakes has been
introduced since August’05 in LGD & TPTY workshops.
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Cutting gas
(Mixture of catalyst & LPG) supplied by Bharat Petroleum has been
inducted as a substitute for DA gas in the stripping shop of RYPS which
is very economical as compared to DA.
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Fuel pad at Gooty
- Fuel pad, first of its kind in Indian Railways, provided at Gooty will
facilitate attending WDG4 locomotives without having to touch home shed
at Hubli for consumables like crank case oil, gear case oil, sand etc.
It improves the availability of these loco for traffic.
Future
plans:
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Coaches upgraded with modern upgraded
material, which will improve the coach aesthetics as well as 18 months
POH instead of annually.
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Increasing the carrying capacity of
passengers in ACCN and GSCN coaches by retro fitment of longitudinal
middle berths. This work is going to be taken up at all the C&W depots
and Tirupathi & Lallaguda workshops.
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OBHS: On Board Hygiene Services are going
to be introduced in some long distance trains on this railway in which
the interior of coaches including toilets will be cleaned through
trained manpower using modern machines and material while train on run.
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To improve the cleanliness standards,
mechanized cleaning of coaches will be done at major coaching depots on
this railway
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All the trains passing through day light
hours from Vijayawada railway station are being cleaned under the scheme
of Clean Train Station. Similar facility will be introduced al Guntakal
railway station.
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LED based destination boards on trains for
passenger’s convenience are going to be provided for all the integrated
rake links.
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It is planned to rehabilitate BOXN wagons
into BOXNR (Stainless steel body) wagons at Rayanapadu workshop in order
to upgrade carrying capacity.
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It is planned to undertake the retro
fitment of cushioned seats in all unreserved passenger coaches for the
better comfortability.
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The pantry cars are being upgraded with
stainless steel paneling in the kitchen room to combat corrosion. In
addition, these kitchens will be equipped with gas pipelines and 230V AC
power supply.
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Passenger carrying coaches are being
provided with an emergency light as a safety measure in emergency.
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Introduction of Microprocessor base
excitation and propulsion control system in Diesel electric locomotives
for superior operational efficiency, safety and reduced maintenance.
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