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Failures

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Slide failure

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Slide failure

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Slide failure

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Slide failure

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Slide failure

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Slide failure

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Superelevation

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Double track formation

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Railway station
A place on a railway line where traffic is booked
and dealt with and where an authority to
proceed is given to the train
Station may be flag or block , in flag station only
traffic is dealt with and there is no arrangement
to block the movement of train
In block station no traffic is dealt with but a train
cannot proceed further without obtaining
permission from these station. This may be class
A, class B or class C block station

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Train station

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Site selection
Level ground and well drained
Should have water supply
Enough space for future extension
It should not be at or near the curve on railway
Station yard should never be situated on curves
The site should be such that maximum
permissible gradient can be obtained with out
difficulty

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Objective of train station

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Station layout

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Station design features

For public
For traffic
For locomotive department
General
For public: booking office, platform, platform
coverage, drinking water, lights, sanitary,
bathroom, waiting room and retiring room,
refreshment room, telephone.

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Train station

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Station

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Train station
For traffic: tickets issuing, checking luggage,
signals for controlling trains, arrangement of
cross over or overtake, platform, staff
accommodation
For locomotive: water, fuel for engines,
cleaning/examining engines or vehicle,
arrangement to accommodate the locomotive
staff.

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Train station
General: have approach roads from surrounding,
provision of clock, availability of coolies on the
platform
Types of train station: Wayside, junctions and
terminals
Wayside is for to cross an up and a down train or
for overtaking of the slower trains
Junction station is the one where branch lines
meets main line, so arrangements are made for
interchange of traffic also to clean and repair
vehicle

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Train station
Terminals : the station at which the railway
line or one of its branches terminates is
known as terminal station or terminal
junction. Hydraulic buffers are provided at the
end. Additional facility such as servicing
engines, marshalling tracks. The area is
facilitated with restaurants, ticket office and
with direct connection of roads

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Platforms
Passenger and goods platform
Passenger platform: minimum 200ft by 12 ft,
ramp, lighting, drinking water
Goods platform: this is higher compare to
passenger platform, have weighing facility,
storage and shed.

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Yards
A yard is defined as a system of tracks laid within
definite limits for various purposes such as
storing of vehicles, making up trains etc., over
which movements may be made (not authorized
by time table), subject to the authorized rules
and regulation of signals
Passenger yards
Goods yard
Marshalling yards
Locomotive yards

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Railway track maintenance

Track should be such that trains may run over
it safely at the heights prescribed speed
Packing:
Periodic overhauling and through packing or
surfacing, Shovel packing
Surface on curves
Surface defects and remedies

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Railway track maintenance

Irregularities in alignment and their correction
Variation in gauge and re-gauging
Maintenance of ballast and boxing
Cleaning track and weeding
Screening ballast
Drainage
Maintenance of level crossing
Maintenance and renewal of rails

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Railway track maintenance

Maintenance and renewal of sleepers
Maintenance of fittings
Programming work
Track imprest
Creep: causes and effect
Pulling back
Anchors or anti-creeper
Track work for high speed

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Railway track maintenance

Tidiness
Obstruction on track due to sand , snow etc
Fence-boundary marks
Permanent way workshop
Curves
Superelevation
Miscellaneous works

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Maintenance tools
Pandrol Tools :Panpuller, Pansetter,
Rail Turning Bar: Foot Straight Slewing Bar,
Heel/Point Slewing Bar, Clipping Bar
Tongs & Nips :Rail Tongs , Timber Sleeper
Tongs, Timber Sleeper Nips , Concrete Sleeper
Tongs, Steel Sleeper Tongs
Hammers: Keying Hammer, Keying Hammer -
Hickory Handle, Sledge Hammer - Hickory
Handle, 14lb Sledge Hammer - Hickory Handle

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Maintenance tools
Pick axe Hickory Handle, Fishplate Spanner,
36 , 15" Fishplate Spanner Round-Nosed
Digging Spade, Pad Scraper ,Mills Clip
Extractor

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Maintenance tools
Rail
turning
bar

Pan setter

Pan puller

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Maintenance tools
Steel Sleeper
Timber Tong
Sleeper
Tong
Rail Tong

Timber Sleeper Nips

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Maintenance tools

Foot Heel
Slewing bar

Foot straight
Slewing bar

Clipping bar

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Maintenance tools
Digging spade

Pick Axe-Hickory
Handle

Fish plate spanner 36

inch
scrapper

Fish plate spanner, 15 inch

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Maintenance tools
Sledge
Hammer,
Hickery
Handle

Keying
Hammer
, Hickery
Handle

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Maintenance organization
For construction and maintenance in railway,
there is Chief Engineer
Then a number of divisions or districts under an
Executive, District, or Divisional Engineer.
A division or district is divided into sub-division in
charge of resident Engineer or Assistant Engineer
Permanent way inspectors are given charge of
sections, the length of section again depend on
the extent of work, average track is considered of
50 miles (single track).

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Maintenance organization
Inspectors may or may not have Assistants under
them.
Assistants are either incharge of the inspectors
section or for generally helping the inspector
Section gangs: the basic unit of organization for
track maintenance is the gang length, in charge of
a gang mate. The average length is 3 miles.
Massed or Mobile gangs
Special gangs

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New methods of track const.

Rail track construction machines
rail threaders, tampers, fork grabs and various
sleeper laying attachments to suit the
different sleeper configurations
Eight-sleeper layers
eight-sleeper Octopus sleeper layers,

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New methods of track const.

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New methods of track const.

Rail track maintenance services
rail renewal, undercutting, sleeper
replacement and ballast upgrade.
track maintenance hi-rail is fitted with a rail
threader, ballast broom, ballast plough,
platypus, fork grab and under cutter.

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New methods of track const.

The method of sleeper replacement uses the
Platypus attachment, which can be fitted with or
without an inside clip-up ram to enable the inside
clips on the sleeper to be secured as part of the
operation rather than requiring a labourer to do this.
This increases productivity while reducing labour
costs.
The Platypus is fitted to track excavators that sit on-
track while working. Using this method one can
maintain an active work-site on a live track,
maximising track time with minimal disruption to
train time-tables.

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