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Divertion of PRASANTI Express, Chennai Asansol Superfast Express, Falaknuma Superfast Express, Partial Cancellation of Machilipatnam / Narasapur Visakhapatnam Passenger & Special Trains run by ECoR
Trains Cancelled / Partially Cancelled / Diverted / Rescheduled due to overflowing of rain water above danger level at a Railway Bridge o­n Thandava River between Tuni-Gullipadu
More Helpline Numbers Provided for Public Information In view of Changes In Train Services
Steps Taken by SCR to Minimise Inconvenience to Passengers in View of Disruption to Train Services Between Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam Due to Heavy Floods
Alleppy-Dhanbad, Nagavali, & Yesvantapur Hatia Express Diverted Due to flowing of Water over Railway Bridge Between Tuni and Gullipadu Section
Trains Diverted Due to flowing of Water over Railway Bridge Between Tuni and Gullipadu Section
Santragachi-Chennai-Santragachi Special Train Extended for Eight more Services
SCR Extends Secunderabad-Jaipur-Secunderabad Special Train For Eight more Services
SCR Observes ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’
KAKINADA PORT CHENNAI EGMORE CIRCAR EXPRESS TO STOP AT MANGALAGIRI AND TIRUPATI AMARAVATHI EXPRESS TO STOP AT MADANAPALLI ROAD
Machilipatnam-Yesvantapur Express to stop at Narasaraopet
Special Trains between Visakhapatnam Secunderabad, Karimnagar Tirupati, Visakhapatnam Shiridi Sai Nagar, Visakhapatnam Chennai and Indore Yesvantapur
Tirupati Karimnagar Express Inaugurated and Jammikunta Adarsh Station Inaugurated
Trains Cancelled / Partially Cancelled / Diverted / Regulated Due to Road Under Bridge Work in Nanded Division
Special Ticket Checking Drives conducted by Secunderabad Division
A/C Special Trains Between Kakinada Town and Secunderabad Via Tanuku, Bhimavaram, Gudivada
SCR sets up Exclusive Contact Numbers for Fire Prevention Alert
Cancellation of Trains Due to Track Maintenance Works On Tirupati-Renigunta-Gudur Section
Monthly Combined MMTS / APSRTC Ticket Fares to be Increased
Special Trains Between Secunderabad-Tirupati and Tirupati-Karimnagar
South Central Railway to Run Fourteen Dussera / Diwali Special Trains Between Nanded and Surat
Six Special Trains between Chennai and Shalimar Via Gudur, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam
Two Special Trains Between Bangalore and Santragachi
Twelve Super Fast Deepawali AC Special Trains Between Secunderabad and Mumbai LTT
“Science Express-Biodiversity Special-Fifth Phase” To Put Up Exhibitions on SCR
Eighteen Special Trains Between Jammu Tawi and H.S.Nanded
Eight Superfast Special Trains Between Visakhapatnam and Sainagar Shirdi
Levy of Service Tax on AC and First Class Rail Passengers from 1st October 2012
Levy of Service Tax on Transportation of Goods by Rail from 1st October 2012
Twenty Eight Special Trains Between Visakhapatnam and Nanded Via Vijayawada
Dismantling of Staircases on Platforms of Secunderabad Railway Station for Installation of Escalators
Miraj-Parli Vaijnath Passenger Train Derailed Between Ghatnandur and Parli Vaijnath Stations
SCR to revise the Timings of 77687 Nizamabad-Kacheguda DEMU Passenger, 77614 Manoharabad-Secunderabad DEMU Passenger, 77688 Kacheguda-Nizambad DEMU Passenger, 77615 Secunderabad-Medchal DEMU Passenger & 57473 Kacheguda- Bodhan Passenger
SCR to revise the Timings of Secunderabad-Pune Shatabdi Express
SCR to Run Twelve Special Express Trains For Diwali Festival between Hyderabad - Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad - Santragachi, Aurangabad - Tirupati And Kacheguda - Bangaluru
SCR to run eight MMTS Special Trains on 29th and 30th September 2012 for Vinayaka Nimarjanam
SCR to revise the Timings of Gulbarga – Hyderabad Passenger Train
SCR To Run Four Special Trains Between Hyderabad and Santragachi during Dussehra Season
Sri K.H. Muniyappa, Hon’ble Minister of State for Railways Flags off New Intercity Express Between Bidar and Hyderabad
Fare of Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Duronto Express Does not Include Catering Charges
Train Services Cancelled on 4th September 2012
Rejoinder / Clarification on News Items on the Incident Involving Rajdhani Express Near Adoni on 24th August, 2012
Cancellation / Partial Cancelation of Trains Due to Track Maintenance Works on Vijayawada-Rajamundry-Kakinada and Vijayawada-Ongole-Gudur Sections
Cancellation / Short Termination / Rescheduling / Partially cancellation / Running of Special Services Due to Line Block Between Hussain Sagar and Secunderabad / Hyderabad due to Track Improvement Works
High Level Coordination Meeting Between SCR, GHMC, and HMRL Held on Various Developmental Works
SCR Introduces Token System at Passenger Reservation System Office at Secunderabad
SCR To Run Ten Special Trains Between Kacheguda And Banglore, Hyderabad And Visakhapatnam & Aurangabad And Tirupati
Surprise Check Against Ticketless Travel at Secunderabad Railway Station
South Central Railway to run special Trains between Hyderabad –Kollam-Hyderabad
South Central Railway extends the run of Jaipur-Secunderabad-Jaipur Special Train
Singareni Collieries Company Limited Pays Rs. 6.38 Crores to S.C.Railway for the Bhadrachalam Road – Sattupalli New Railway Line
SCR to Run Ten Special Trains Between Hyderabad – Kolhapur – Hyderabad
SCR Releases MMTS-Cum-Local Trains Pocket Time Table
Asanlol-Chennai Central Weekly Express introduced

ROLLING STOCK


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

-       Adequate availability

-       Reliability

-       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


The starting years of Workshops, Loco Sheds & Divisions of SCRly are furnished in the tabular form given below.

Workshop
Year Started
Lalaguda Workshop
1893
Rayanapadu Workshop
1976
Tirupati Workshop
1985

Shed
Year Started
Diesel Loco shed/ Gooty
1963
Diesel Loco shed/ Guntkal
1964
Diesel Loco shed/Kazipet
1973
Diesel Loco shed/Vijayawada
1983
Diesel Loco shed/ Moula-Ali
1984

Division
Year Started
Vijayawada Division
1956
Guntakal Division
1956
Secunderabad Division
1966
Hyderabad Division
1977
Nanded Division
2003
Guntur Division
2003




WORKSHOPS



South Central Railway has three Workshops to carry out POH (Periodic Over hauling) of Coaching and Freight stock.




Details of the activities, monthly and annual production output of the Workshops:
S.No
Name Of workshop
Location
Activity
Monthly target
Annual target
1
Carriage Repair Shop
Lallaguda
Periodic Overhauling(POH) of coaches
122 Vehicle Units (VUs)
1464 VUs
2
Carriage Repair Shop
Tirupathi
POH of coaches
85 VUs
1020 VUs
3
Wagon Repair shop
Guntupalli
POH of Wagons
360 VUs
4320 VUs




ROH DEPOTS

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.

COACH MAINTENANCE DEPOTS
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:

S. No.
Depot
Coach holding
Classification
1
Hyderabad
543
Mega
2
Secunderabad
481
Major
3
Tirupathi
410
Major
4
Kacheguda
408
Major
5
Vijayawada
335
Major
6
Narasapur
224
Medium
7
Nanded
217
Medium
8
Kakinada
190
Medium
9
Guntur
154
Medium
10
Purna
119
Minor
11
Kazipet
92
Minor
12
Guntakal
67
Minor
13
Machilipatnam
25
Minor




DIESEL SHEDS
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.

Location of locomotive sheds & thier holdings:

S No.
Location
Loco holding
Types locos
Population Type
Wise
1
Kazipet
138
WDM2
WDG3A
WDG3A
45
23
70
2
Gooty
122
WDM3A
WDG3A
WDM3D
23
95
4
3
Guntakal
108
WDM2 
YDM4
WDM3A
WDM3D
64
14
18
12
4
Moula Ali
72
WDM2 
WDS4
DHMU
51
12
9
5
Vijayawada
51
WDP1
WDS4 
DEMU
15
5 
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HUMAN RESOURSE DEVELOPMENT

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.


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 7training centers are located at various field units and workshops viz. at KCG, RDM, BZA,GY,LGDS,TPTYS,RYPS.

INNOVATIONS & IMPROVEMENTS

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:
  1. Accreditation of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management and ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems for workshops, diesel sheds and coaching depots.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  1. Rake-out – A system of turning out the coaches in the form of rakes has been introduced since August’05 in LGD & TPTY workshops.

  1. 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.

  1. 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:
  
  1. Coaches upgraded with modern upgraded material, which will improve the coach aesthetics as well as 18 months POH instead of annually.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. To improve the cleanliness standards, mechanized cleaning of coaches will be done at major coaching depots on this railway

  1. 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.

  1. LED based destination boards on trains for passenger’s convenience are going to be provided for all the integrated rake links.

  1. It is planned to rehabilitate BOXN wagons into BOXNR (Stainless steel body) wagons at Rayanapadu workshop in order to upgrade carrying capacity.

  1. It is planned to undertake the retro fitment of cushioned seats in all unreserved passenger coaches for the better comfortability.

  1. 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.

  1. Passenger carrying coaches are being provided with an emergency light as a safety measure in emergency.

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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