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Metro rail network

Planning and construction of a metro rail network.

Modalities like the course curriculum and trainers are being worked out.

For example: 65.1-km long Metro operations in the city.
Another 128 km.

The Metro technology being used is advanced and aspects of signalling, route designing, automatic fare collection, land acquisition proceedings and rolling stock requirements.

The PG course will be open to engineering graduates from civil, electrical, signalling and telecom fields. Civil, Electrical and Signalling and telecom engineers for the course, who will be taken in at the executive level and deputed for the courses.

The PG program, with a batch size of 30 students, will have course components like planning for a metro, route alignment, land acquisition procedures, system selection, funding patterns, planning for stations, depots, tunnelling, signalling, parking, property development, integration with other modes, safety at work site, fare system and ticketing and train operations. Subject to approval of projects from administration.


Rly plans bullet train on Delhi-Amritsar route-Project Report

The Railways have invited global tenders for conducting a pre-feasibility study of a high-speed train on the Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route, which could cut travel time between the cities by nearly half. Currently, the 520-km long distance between Delhi and Amritsar is covered by a Shatabdi Express in five-and-a-half hours. The proposed high speed train or bullet train, is expected to run at 300 km per hour on a dedicated fast track.

A consultant will be appointed to carry out the study on the proposed high speed corridor connecting Delhi with Amritsar, said a senior railway ministry official. The study will focus on technicalities, financial and operational viability of the project.

There are many countries, including Japan, China, France and Germany, which have shown interest in being part of the high speed corridor project.

Since the proposed Delhi-Amritsar bullet train is to pass through Panipat, Ambala, Chandigarh and Jalandhar, the cost of the pre-feasibility study would be shared by Punjab, Haryana and railway ministry.

The pre-feasibility study will be followed by a more detailed study focusing on traffic pattern, funding plan, stakeholders' view, fare structure and other related issues before beginning the work, said the official.

Besides Delhi-Amritsar route, the Railways have decided to conduct pre-feasibility studies for four more high-speed passenger routes.

They are Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijaywada-Chennai,
Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulum and Howrah-Haldia.


What questions do we need to followup on?
What will it cost?
How long will it last?
How was the budget figure reached?
What types of information are required but not available?
What tools are used to pursue continual improvement?
What price range do my competitors charge?
How many buyers are there and where do they live?
The cost of the pre-feasibility study would be shared by Punjab, Haryana and railway ministry.
What is the method of payment?

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After 14 months of the foundation laying ceremony the Railway board has floated global tenders inviting Request for Qualification (RFQ) in the joint venture for the new coach factory, to be established under PPP.
Private Public Partnership.

As per the RFQ inviting the private companies, the Rail Coach Factory at Rae Bareli will be in joint venture for manufacturing and supplying of Passenger coaches to Indian Railway.

The new coach building plant at Rae Bareli will have an installed capacity to manufacture 1,000 coaches per year with latest manufacturing systems at an optimum costs. It would produce coaches with pleasing interiors, longer life span and higher comfort level.

This will be first rail coach factory in Uttar Pradesh.

Cost
Land
People to be employed
Residential colonies for staff.
Buildings:
For Example:
World's Tallest building
Floors 110
Height 1,477 ft
Official name _______
Alternative names *
Location
Address *
Bordering street #1 _______
Bordering street #2 _______
Bordering street #3 _______
Bordering street #4 _______
Postcode *
Exact Latitude *
Exact Longitude *
Location Map (POI) *
Neighborhood
District
City
State
Technical Data
Height (tip) *
Height (struct.) 1,477 ft
Height (roof) *
Height (main roof) *
Height (top floor) *
Height (obs. floor) *
Length (max) *
Width (max) *
Floors (OG) 110
Floors (UG) *
Floor overview *
Construction start *
Construction end ____
GFA *
Height Floor-to-floor *
Elevators *
Work places *
Building in General
Type of construction high-rise building
Structural system
Structural materials
Foundation type
Facade systems
Facade materials
Facade colors
Roof system
Footprint type
Main usages
Side usages
Architectural style
Status under progress.
Other builders, business, railways, Administrative parties
Can you bring me upto date?
What do you think?

Moreover
Railway Manufacture

Q) Do you have the production technology to develop the product?
Q) Does the product satisfy a consumer need?
Q) Will it return a profit?
Q) What price range do my competitors charge?
Q) Who are your competitors?
Q) Who are their customers?
Q) Are they picking off the profitable customers in the market, leaving you with the less profitable ones?
Q) Are these customers also yours?
Q) How do they promote themselves?
Q) How are they attracting new customers?
Q) How active is their promotional activity?
Q) Do they advertise or use direct mail?
Q) What stories are they using to obtain press coverage?
Q) Do they employ field sales people, and if so how many?
Q) Do they attend exhibitions and, if so, which?
Q) How much as a proportion of sales do you think they are spending on promoting themselves?
Q) Who are their suppliers?
Q) Do they use the same suppliers as you? If so, are they on the same terms financially and personally?
Q) Are there differences in operation that may lead to lower or higher costs? If you know of such differences try to make sensible estimates and adjust the figures accordingly.
For Example: Re 1 = 1 Dollar
Re 1 = 1 FRF

Q) What kind of organisation are they?
Q) How do their organisations differ from yours?
Q) How have they set themselves up to meet customers needs?
Q) How do they do it?
Q) Are there new ideas or better ways of operating which you could employ yourself?
Q) How many people do they employ?
Q) How does the workforce split between production or operations and administration?
Q) What are their strengths and weaknesses?
Q) What is their business strategy?
Q) Is it unique?
Q) What will it look like?
Q) Does it provide a new service to customers?
Q) Do you have the marketing skills to sell the product?
Q) What products will it replace or compete against?
Q) What is the method of payment?

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INTRODUCTION

Brief history of railways
Future of railways
Characteristics of railways
Advantages of railways
Trends in modern railways
Trains of tomorrow
Questions

RAILWAY SURVEYS

Reasons for laying a new railway line
Strategic consideration
Linking of trade centres
Connecting port with the interior of the region
Shortening existing route
Laying of a branch line
Undeveloped area
Factors influencing the proposed route
Railway surveys
Reconnaissance survey
Objects of reconnaissance survey
Importance of reconnaissance survey
Information gathered in reconnaissance survey
Factors to be kept in view during reconnaissance survey
Instruments for reconnaissance survey

Preliminery survey

Object of priliminery survey
Importance of preliminery survey
Work of priliminery survey
Instruments for priliminery survey

Location survey

Object of location survey
Importance of location survey
Work of location survey
Instruments for location survey
Project report and drawings
Construction of new lines
Questions

TRAIN RESISTANCES AND ROLLING STOCK

Train resistances

Resistance due to friction and wave action
Resistance due to curves
Resistance due to gradients
Resistance due to speed of the train
Rollingstock

Locomotives
Essential parts of a locomotive
Design of locomotive
Classification
Power of locomotive

Coaches

Earlier coaches
Moderncoaches
Double decker coaches

Wagons
Timber truck wagon
Cattle wagon
Oil tank wagon
Petrol tank wagon
Hopper wagon
Powder wagon
Well wagon
Refrigerated wagon
Special wagons

Train-brakes


Compressed air brakes
Vacuum brakes
Dynamometer car
Questions


RAIL GAUGES

Definition of gauge of track
Gauges in different regions

Traffic condition

Development of poor areas
Cost of track
Speed of movement
Nature of region
Uniformity in gauges
Difficulties to passengers
Difficulties for sending goods
Inefficient use of rolling stock
Difficulty in war
Equipment at station
Hindrance for future conversion
Unigauge project of Indian railways
Loading gauge and construction gauge
Questions


RAILS

Permanent way and its requirements
Functions of rails
Requirements of an ideal rail
Types of rails
Double headed rails
Bull headed rails
Flat footed rails
Steel for rails
Weight and section of rails
Marking on rails
Corrugated or roaring rails
Meaning
Causes
Occurrence
Effects
Types
Peculiar properties
Remedy
Corrosion of rails
Length of rail
Welding of rails
Purposes
Advantages of welding of rails
Methods of welding
Wear of rails
Wear of rails on top or head of rail
Wear of rails at ends of rails
Wear of rail on the sides of the head of rail
Methods adopted to reduce wear of rails
) Use of special alloy steel
Good maintenance of track
Reduction of expansion gap
Exchange of inner and outer rails on curves
Introducing check rails
Use of lubricating oil
Head hardened rails
Measuring wear of rails
Renewal of rails
Wear of rails
Use of heavier locomotives
Construction of branch lines
Bending of rails
Failure of rails
Crushed head
Transverse fissure
Split head
Horizontal fissure
Square or angular brakes
Coning of wheels
Hogged rails
Buckling
Questions

RAIL FASTENINGS

Rail joints
Avoidance of rail joints
Types of rail joints
Types according to position of joints
Types according to position of sleepers
Requirements of an ideal fastening
Fastenings for rails
Fish-plates
Purpose
Design
Detailes
Compound or junction fish-plates
Failure of fish-plates
Spikes, fang-bolts and hook-bolts
Spikes
Purpose of spikes
Requirements of good spike
Types of spike
Fang-bolts
Hook-bolts
Chairs and keys
Bearing-plates
Questions

SLEEPERS

Functions of sleepers
Types of sleepers
Longitudinal sleepers
Transverse sleepers
Requirements of an ideal material for sleeper
Materials for cross-sleepers
Timber or wooden sleepers
Steel sleepers
Cast-iron sleepers
Concrete sleepers
Sleeperdensity
Questions

BALLAST

Functions of ballast
Requirements of an ideal material for ballast
Materials used as ballast
Broken stone
Gravel
Ashes of cinders
Sand
Kankar
Moorum
Brickbats
Selected earth
Size and quantity of ballast
Screening of ballast
Questions

: PLATE-LAYING

Meaning of the term
Methods of plate-laying
Tram line or side method
Telescopic method
American method
Materials required per unit length of track
Ballast trains
Relaying of track
Questions

MAINTENANCE

General
Necessity for maintenance of track
Maintenance of track proper
Duties of a gangmate or a ganger
Duties of a keyman
Duties of a permanent way inspector
Blowing joints
High joints
Pumping joints
Maintenance of railway bridges
Maintenance of rolling stock
Accidents
Signalling during maintenance
Estimating speed of a running train
Counting the rail joints passed
Counting the telegraph posts
Speed restriction
Tools required during maintenance
Packing
Rail inspection
Track inspection
Maintenance and boxing of ballast
Track imprest
Trackwork for high speeds
Speeds on the Indian railways
Emergency measures
Diversions
Ash or selected earth
Temporary supports
Scouring
Wagons with rubble
Breadown vans
Questions


CREEP

Definition
Causes of creep
Brakes
Wave action
Percussion theory
Changes in temperature
Factors determining magnitude of creep
Alignment of track
Gradient of track
Direction of motion of trains
Embankments
Weight and type of rail
Results of creep
Method of measuring the creep
Methods of correcting the creep
Pulling back of rails method
Use of creep anchors
Use of steel sleepers
Questions

CURYATURE OF TRACK

Objections to curvature of track
Designation of a curve
Types of curves and limiting radius or degree of curvature
Transition curves
Requirements of transition curve
Forms of transition curve
Length of transition curve
Shift
Super-elevation or cant
Factors affecting super-elevation
Frictional resistance
Coning of wheels
Body of the vehicle
Weighted average
Speed of trains on curves
Deficiency in super-elevation
Grade compensation on curves
Bending of rails on curves
Cutting of rails on curves
Widening gauge on curves
Spirals
Switch-backs
Rack railways
String-Iining of curves Questions

STATIONS AND YARDS

General
Definition of a station
Purposes of a railway station
Selection of site for a railway station
Features of a railway station
Public requirements
Traffic requirements
Requirement of locomotive department
General requirements
Types of stations
Wayside stations
Junctions
Terminals
Platforms
Passenger platforms
Goods platforms
Staff quarters
Goods traffic at wayside stations
Catch sidings
Definition of a yard
Types of yards
Passenger yards
Goods yards
Marshalling yards
Locomotive yards
Level-crossing
Process of classification of level-crossings
Questions

STATION MACHINERY

Meaning of the term
Engine sheds
Rectangular type engine shade
Circular type engine shade
Ash-pits, ash-pans and examination pits
Drop pits
Water columns
Triangles
Turntables
Traversers
Cranes
Weigh-bridges
Scotch blocks
Bufferstops
Derailing switch or trap switch
Sand hump on snag dead-end
Cow catcher
Questions

POINTS AND CROSSINGS

Purpose for providing points and crossings
Some definitions
Sleepers laid for points and crossings
Through sleepers
Interlaced sleepers
Steel for points and crossings
Switches
Stub switch
Split switch
Shapes of switches
Undercut switches
Straight cut switches
Over-riding switches or composite switches
Lengths of stock rails and tongue rails
Heel divergence or heel clearance
Switch angle
Throw of switch
Crossings
Types of crossings
Ordinary or acute crossing
Double or obtuse crossing
Theoretical nose of crossing and actual nose of crossing
Crossing clearance
Crossing number
Crossing angle
Right angle or cole's method
Centre-line method
Isosceles triangle method
Different types of leads and their calculations
Laying of points and crossings
Maintenance of points and crossings
Questions

COMBINATIONS OF POINTS AND CROSSINGS

General
Cross-overs
Scissors cross-over
Slips
Fixed point
Three throws
Tandems or double turnouts
Gathering lines or ladder tracks
Gauntlet tracks
Double junctions
Questions

SIGNALLING

General
Objects of signalling
Types of signals
Classification according to function
Stock signals or semaphore type signals
Warner signals
Disc or ground signals
Coloured light signals
Classification according to location
Outer signal
Home signal
Starter signal
Advance starter signal
Special signals
Routing signals
Repeating signals
Co-acting signals
Calling-on signals
Indicators
Miscelleneous signals
Typical layouts
Control of movements of trains
Following trains system
Absolute block system
Automatic signalling
Pilot guard system
Centralized traffic control system
Telecommunication
Compensators
Fouling marks
Track capacity
Electrification on the Indian railways
Questions

INTERLOCKING

Definition
Essential principles of interlocking
Methods of interlocking
) Tappets and locks system
Key system
Route relay system
Slotting of signals
Meaning of the term
Principles
Purposes
Methods
Detectors
Point lock and treadle or lock bar
Interlocking of level-crossings
Interlocking standards
Improvements in interlocking and signalling
Questions

RAILWAY TRACTION

Tractive effort of a locomotive
Track stresses
Elastic theory
Procedure for determining track stresses
Questions

EARTHWORK AND DRAINAGE

General
Usual forms of cross-sections
Features of railroad bed level
Width of formation
Slopes of sides
Drains
Method of construction
Drainage
Action of water
Importance of drainage
Requirments of drainage system
Stabilization of track on poor soil
Layer or blanket of moorum or sand
Cement grouting
Sand piles
Use of chemicals
By providing capillary break or cut-off
Questions

TUNNELLING

General
Definition of a tunnel
Tunnelling through rock
Full face method
Heading and bench system
Cantilever car dump method
Drift system
Pilot tunnel method
Tunnelling through soft ground
Forepolliing method
Needle beam method
Five-peice set method
Liner plates method
Other methods
Methods of tunnelling through sub-acqueous strata
Shield tunnelling
Plenum process or compressed air tunnelling
Drainage of tunnels
Sumps and pumps
Grounting
Pilot tunnel
Ventilation of tunnels
Lighting
Shafts
Drilling
Raising
Gloryholing
Mucking
Hauling
Lining of tunnels
Size and shape of tunnels
Underground railways
Calcutta Metro
Tube railways
Maintenance of railway tunnels
Questions

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

Meaning of the term
Necessity in railways
Stores
Purchasing department
Store keeping
Stock control
ABC analysis
VED analysis
Spare parts management
Classification
Codiffication
Initial provisioning
Selective control
Importance
Questions