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The more than a century old Pamban railway bridge connecting Rameswaram to the mainland is now permanently shut down. There is a continuous health monitoring system on this bridge installed by IIT Madras and Southern Railway. In Dec 2022, this system issued two red alerts. Corrosion on this old bridge is too advanced to make repairs which will be very time consuming and costly.

In the meantime the new railway bridge is close to completion, and the hope is by July 2023, it should be commissioned. For the moment trains are being short terminated at the last mainland station Mandapam Camp. Latest update on construction of the new sea railway bridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hPH9bLgIA

You can already see in this video^^^ they have put construction material on the existing track as that track is now useless and unused. The main work is the vertical lift drawbridge has to be fabricated and installed to permit sea going craft to pass below the new bridge. Rest seems more or less done.

On the mainland/Mandapam side in the video you can see the flash butt welding truck welding the rails and welding and de-stressing of rails going on.

Rameswaram new station renders

https://www.financialexpress.com/busine ... e-2945852/
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In shoranur station palakkad. :oops:

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The Steel Rails on the Dedicated Freight Corridors


The steel rails on the EDFC and on the WDFC are of different strengths as I suddenly realized. Indian Railways has a very sensible classification system for steel rails. Let me explain. On the EDFC a lot of the steel rails was supplied by Jindal Steel JSPL and it was 880HH grade steel. This means that the tensile strength of the steel is 880 Mega Pascals. Recall Pascal is a unit of pressure corresponding to 1 Newton force/square metre. Mega is a million. HH means head hardened. Sometimes one might see 880Cr and Cr means Chromium, or 880Mn which means there is additional Manganese added to the steel to change some property of the alloy.
Here is a news article that 880HH steel was supplied by Jindal Steel(JSPL), of course it is not explained in the article what 880 means,( journalists are all seriously mentally challenged)

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/in ... s?from=mdr

On the WDFC 1080HH steel imported from Japan is being used. This is because the Japanese Development bank JICA is funding via soft loans the construction of the WDFC. Buying rails and products from Japan is part of the agreement and so is that one Japanese company at least will partner with the Indian construction company for any package. So we have L&T and Sojitz(Japanese) for Dadri to Makarpura(Vadodara) and Tata+Ircon+Mitsui for Makarpura to Jawaharlal Nehru Port(JNPT) Mumbai.
So the tensile strength/breaking point is higher. Over time the uneven wear creates "mushrooms" on the track surface and this has to be evenly ground down by a mechanized track grinding machine so a smooth surface is again obtained. In the Channel tunnel the rails were of a material that grinding was done after 1 billion tonnes of freight passed through the tunnel. This is like saying the entire annual freight of the IR system wide goes through the tracks under the Channel.
European grading of steel and classification is different. IR 880 steel =EN R260 and IR 1080HH=EN R280 approximately.
I have attached a chart from British Steel which lists the Indian Railway steel composition too. You can compare 880 in the chart with the EN variety EN R260. Note the hydrogen content is < 2.5 parts per million (ppm) for all steels in the list. This is because higher the hydrogen content the danger of hydrogen embrittlement and cracks propagating along the rail.
Hydrogen embrittlement caused the fatal disaster at Khanna(an EDFC station now) in Punjab on 26th November 1998, when a speeding Golden Temple Mail (formerly 3 Dn Frontier Mail) bound for Amritsar from Mumbai, derailed due to a cracked rail. Several bogies of the train fell on the adjacent Up line where minutes later the Jammu to Sealdah express rammed into the bogies. Being 3:15 am most passengers were asleep. The cold weather and time hampered rescue operations. Metallurgical analysis revealed that the first derailment of 12903 Golden temple mail was caused by hydrogen embrittlement(water introduced during welding, natural hydogen in the steel not controlled while making the steel, corrosion due to open toilets on trains and/or local environment) which cracked the rail. 212 people lost their lives. So hydrogen content in steel has to be as close to zero as possible in the steel.
Here are some pictures of cracks indicating what Hydrogen (embrittlement) in steel can do and how dangerous it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement

It thus appears that grinding of rails may be less often on WDFC than on EDFC, due to the high tensile strength rails on the WDFC.

Unfortunately I cannot post my comparison chart of steels which is very useful. It is a PDF document. BRF does not let me even post a screenshot. There is info about mil grade steel in my document.
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There is an excellent talk by Ashwini Vaishnaw on the long-term vision for IR, the modernisation objectives and transformation. One thing which should be praised by Modiji is allowing lateral talented entry of people like Ashwini & Dr. S Jaishankar for key positions who are ushering an once in a era changes which is laying a good foundation for future growth. In the same video, Mr. Vaishnaw also talks about SM, future plans wrt to telecom industry & infrastructure. Really nice to see people who are thinking 20 steps ahead rather than the usual yearly trinkets IR budgets we used to get before.



I think one fact Mr. Vaishnaw got wrong is that IR inducted relatively modern (80-90s) tech electric loco (WAP-5, WAG-9 originally) & WDG-4 series and also LHB coaches during late 90s onwards...although the pace of induction was painfully slow. I like the aggressiveness of the current folks...they have a vision of replacing all current stock of coaches/engines with contemporary design within 10 years...even if they achieve 60-70%, it will be huge transformation.
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EDFC Update Khurja to Sahnewal(Ludhiana) about 400km section.


Package 1 L&T Construction Khurja to Pilkhani.


1. Khurja to New Khatauli 125 km under trial, possibly opened.


2. Track linked New Khatauli to Rohana Kalan(greenfield alignment)


3. Rohana Kalan to New Talheri Buzurg(greenfield alignment) track bed ready no tracks.


4. New Talheri Buzurg to Tapri, track linked along IR alignment.


5. Tapri---Saharanpur---New Saharanpur -----New Pilkhani. Poor progress. Houses marked but yet to be demolished in Saharanpur city. Bridge across a canal yet to be fabricated. Then once fabricated has to be winched across.

45 km track linking left in this section. Target date for completion June 2023.


See point 5 in Video 1.


Package 2 GMR Construction New Pilkhani to Sahnewal(Ludhiana)


1. Sahnewal to Shambhu trials will start soon, inspection by rail car done by DFCCIL officials on completed track.


2. Shambhu to Ambala City track linked half way.


3. After Ambala city begins Ambala Cantt. bypass and rail flyover the Ambala Cantt. Delhi line and flyover the GT road.


EDFC rejoins running parallel to IR tracks at Dukheri first station after Ambala towards Saharanpur. Track not linked here on bypass.

4. Dukheri to Yamunanagar, track linked.


5. Yamunanagar to New Pilkhani tracks linked see Video 1. In particular tracks laid on Western Yamuna Canal bridge see Video 2 and over Yamuna bridge see video 1.


6. New Pilkhani EDFC station operational. This is a Junction station with an IR spur joining EDFC. Not every DFC station is a junction station.


Total kms track to be linked by GMR between Ludhiana and New Pilkhani 25 km. Target June 2023.



Total tracks to be linked on EDFC 45km (L&T)+25km(GMR)=70km between Khurja and Ludhiana. 17km at DDU/Mughalsarai yard remains to be operationalized which will be soon as only wiring left. Son Nagar(Bihar) to Sahnewal is 1339 km out of which <100km left to track link and < 300km left to operationalize.


Video 1



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmlTbJcaNvE



Video 2(track linking complete on bridge over Western Yamuna Canal between Yamunanagar and New Pilkhani)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdu0UD1qYyM
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WDFC Update.

1. Dadri (UP) and Dadri and Tuglakabad ICD(Inland Container Depot) and Kathuwas ICD near Rewari now connected by 135 km greenfield double track WDFC line with high mast OHE for double stack container to Rewari, WDFC line operationalized.
EDFC and WDFC junction and crossover at Dadri fully operational.

2. Rewari---Palanpur---Sanand (Ahmedabad suburb) WDFC fully operational. Spur at Palanpur connecting WDFC directly to recently doubled and electrified IR line Palanpur to Samikhiali---Gujarat ports Adani and Kandla is operational. This spur bypasses IR Palanpur yard entirely so no detention of freight moving to Gujarat ports.

Average time container takes from NCR ICDs to Gujarat ports fallen to 50 hours.
Will fall more as speeds rise after HS type wagon rolling stock is added to holdings and as speeds are upped after an initial teething period. Should go to 36 hours in the end.

3. New spur line operational at Sanand that connects WDFC to Pipavav Maersk ports.

Total distance of WDFC is 1509 km. Operational distance is 930km.


4. Sanand to Makarpura (130km) Target Dec 2023. L&T+Sojitz(Japan). Major bridges across Sabarmati, Mahi rivers all complete. Track linking going on and wiring, greenfield alignment.

5. Makarpura----Sachin/Surat 135 km Target June 2023, Tata+IRCON+Mitsui(Japan). Major bridge across Tapi river on Surat city bypass incomplete. Major bridge across Narmada complete and track linked. All rail over rail flyovers except one are complete. Incomplete one is over Udhna/Surat to Jalgaon IR double line, WDFC jumps over this double line on Surat city bypass near Niyol station of IR. May miss target date of completion.

6. Sachin to Vaitarna 180km Target June 2023 Tata+IRCON+Mitsui, Target June 2023. Bridge across Vaitarna river incomplete. Sachin to Sanjan 108km on GJ/MH border trials held. Sanjan to Vaitarna no trials yet as bridge on Vaitarna river has to be completed which should happen in June, will miss target. 70km+ left to track link here.

7. Vaitarna to JNPT port, Tata+IRCON+Mitsui 110km, work is very slow and lagging. Target keeps shifting, at current rates of progress seen on video October 2024. Only 35-40% complete.

TATA is beset with extremely poor project management. They allocated a lot of resources to the construction of the new Parliament building and left WDFC in limbo. They were blacklisted by DFC. They wanted to take the matter to court. Mitsui their Japanese project partner was also blacklisted and they felt very upset and insulted. Then if the JNPT to Vaitarna section were to be re-tendered it would mean completion by 2026, so after one month TATA was re-instated. It is a useless construction company. All jhoomla.

570 km left to operationalize out of 1509km. Mainly to connect Dahej, Hazira(Petrochemicals/Surat) and JNPT ports. Rest of Gujarat ports are now connected and containers flowing quickly along WDFC from Delhi NCR, ICDs Inland Container depots.

Out of 570km, about 460km left to track link.

8. OCC(Operational Control Center) of WDFC at Sabarmati/Ahmedabad suburb operationalized first week of April.

There is talk of a future container port at Palghar MH which is also along WDFC between Sachin and Vaitarna.
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In this video which is self-explanatory you can see 2 lines WR Virar to Dahanu and 2 lines WDFC and in addition 2 more WR lines that will carry suburban rail traffic beyond Virar to Dahanu Rd. being built and are at early stages. Totally 6 lines in the future. WDFC bridge over Vaitarna river now seems to be complete(see what I wrote above). Cannot see much of track linking on WDFC. All the road overbridges will have to built for 6 tracks now and they are dismantling old ROBs since there is no room below them for 6 tracks. This is in WDFC Sachin to Vaitarna section^^^


https://youtu.be/E_WwZfHhirE

WDFC is east of the WR tracks towards Ahmedabad and new WR lines being built are west of existing WR tracks. The Vaitarna bridge of WDFC is the blue colored bridge higher than existing WR tracks. After Vaitarna station WDFC will swing east near Virar eand via two tunnels head towards JNPT via Juchandra, Kharbao and Bhiwandi and leave WR lines towards Mumbai Central.

Bullet train lines will cut these 6 lines orthogonally.
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What do the Train Numbers Mean on Indian Railways


The train numbers on Indian Railways have a meaning. For example I mentioned 12903 Golden temple mail in my post below. The first 1 means long distance, 2 means superfast so they will levy a surcharge on your ticket over some basic fare. 9 means Western Railway is the zone tasked with maintaining the rake, the 03 is all that survives from even colonial times of the old train number 3 down Frontier mail which was the colonial times name of the Golden Temple Mail when as Frontier Mail it ran from Mumbai Central to Peshawar on the Khyber pass.
Of course they have run out of numbers so they have started to use 0 and 2 also, like 22436 is Delhi Varanasi Vande Bharat. The third digit 4, tells me that Northern Railway is tasked with maintaining the rake for this Vande Bharat train. If the first digit is 0, then it signifies that that train is a Special. Thus 02434 is Hazrat Nizamuddin to MAS(Chennai) special superfast. Since the third digit is 4, it indicates that again Northern Railway maintains the rake. The zone that maintains the rake is given by the third digit.
Since there are 19 zones 18+1 Konkan Railway, more than one zone has the same third digit. An example is 12627 Karnataka express from Bangalore to New Delhi, 6 indicates SWR (South Western Railway) maintains the rake, 12615 is GT Express and the 6 here says Southern Railway maintains the rake. 15 at the end of GT express is all that remains of 15 Down (Dn) and 16 Up the colonial times numbering of the GT(Grand Trunk) Express. The number 6 has been assigned to both SR(Southern Railway, headquartered in Chennai) and SWR(Southwestern Railway headquartered in Hubli, Karnataka). VB all have 22 at the start and I think all Rajdhanis have 22 at the start too.
Here are the zonal numbers for all the zones(the third digit of the train number)
1 (Y21XX): Central and some West Central zone trains
2 (Y22XX): Some Northern, North Central, North Western and Southern zone trains
3 (Y23XX): Eastern and East Central zone trains
4 (Y24XX): Some Northern, North Central and North Western zone trains
5 (Y25XX): Northeast Frontier and North Eastern zone trains
6 (Y26XX): Some Southern and South Western zone trains
7 (Y27XX): South Central and some South Western zone trains
8 (Y28XX): South Eastern, South East Central and East Coast zone trains
9 (Y29XX): Western, some West Central and North Western zone trains.
The maintaining zone is responsible to carry out careful mechanical and electrical inspection of all the coaches that make up the rake and do POH(periodic overhauling) of the coaches that constitute the rake once the coaches have run a couple of thousand miles. Of course cleaning of the coach is done at the destination at both ends of any journey even though one destination is outside the maintaining zone. So once Karnataka Express from Bangalore reaches Delhi, it is washed and cleaned even though Southwestern Railway maintains the rake and checks for mechanical and electrical wear and tear.

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A word about the Grand Trunk Express ---GT Express.

In the 1950s it was the only train that connected North India with South India. North India was connected directly to South India as late as 1929 when Balharshah was connected to Kazipet and the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railways to Chennai. When the GT express was started, it ran from Peshawar to Mangalore completing the journey in 96 hours. Service began April 1, 1929. By the mid 1930s GT express started to originate from Mettupalayam, the first BG station in the foothills of the Nilgiris. In the 1960s and early 1970s by which time the train originated at Chennai, twice a week GT ran as an all air-conditioned train the famous Deluxe express.
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^^^ In my WDFC update I had said that on Surat city bypass work has been very slow by OK Tata bye bye. I had also said there is an important rail flyover where WDFC goes over the Udhna/Surat IR double line towards Jalgaon at Niyol outside Surat on this bypass. Remember DFCs never enter cities and never cross IR tracks and mostly level crossing free maybe there will be 6-7 level crossings in the entire DFC network. So there are rail over rail flyovers whenever DFCs cross IR lines.
This video finally shows fabrication going on for this Niyol flyover. There will be two such open web girder bridges (there will be two of them for up and down lines, Up line mean towards Delhi since DFC HQ is Delhi and Down line is towards JNPT and traffic both road and rail always moves on the left in India) and the height will be a lot as they have to accommodate double stacked container freight. On the Narmada bridge since there was clearance below they made WDFC bridges underslung. Here there is no room underneath so have to go for very--- extra tall open web girder bridges for those double stacked container rakes.

The nose has not been attached to the bridges as fabrication is not over. The nose is to give stability when the bridges are pulled/winched over the IR tracks. After that the nose will be removed once the bridge is bolted down at either end.

The target for the Makarpura to Vaitarna section under which this Surat city bypass falls, is next month June 2023 and I am not confident they will meet it.

https://youtu.be/4F6pOKCawL8


The second open web girder bridge for the UP line on the JNPT to Vaitarna section over 6 CR lines at the Mumbai suburb of Kopar will have to be launched too. The first one was done last month around April 6th once a traffic and power block was taken at night by CR from midnight to 5am. They will have to take a similar mega block for the second girder.

They are getting good at launching these heavy, long length girder bridges by winching it across, this one at Niyol ^^^ in the video is super long. You can see the reason, on Google Earth, WDFC cuts IR tracks at an angle and not perpendicular on Surat bypass. If the intersection was perpendicular it would have been a shorter length for the bridge.
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Indian Railways To Rejig Routes And Composition Of Some Vande Bharat Trains Facing Low Occupancy Rate

https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/ ... rat-trains
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Second girder launched across 6 CR railway lines at Kopar to carry WDFC towards JNPT. This is on the UP line. Work done on the night of May 6-7th after taking traffic and power block and shutting down Mumbai railway system beyond Thane entirely to the rest of the country. See my post ^^^ on progress or non-progress on WDFC.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655095540965597184
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Along with the Lucknow to Kanpur Expressway construction and Kanpur Ring road(see my post in Roads thread), rail speed between Kanpur to Lucknow is being upped to 160kmph reducing travel time between the two cities to 45 mins from the current 90mins to 120mins. Work is going on fast with automatic signaling, new rails and improved track bed and better quality semi HSR sleepers. This is concurrent with upping the speed on the Delhi to Howrah route to 160kmph from the current 130kmph were work is on going. Bridges like across the Sai river are being re-girdered to allow faster speeds between Kanpur and Lucknow. Here is a video of works taking place to increase speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAWLS2iKSg0
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Anji Khad bridge, India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge will connect Katra to Reasi in J&K.

Its 96 cables were fully installed in a record time period of 11 months.....

It's also an asymmetric bridge, balanced on the axis of a central pylon

The Anji Khad Bridge is expected to be completed in August 2023


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Nowadays i search for the AK bridge with the same enthusiasm i had when i used to search for tejas flight updates on ada website. There is only one more segment left to be completed and once this bridge is completed only track laying and other stuff would be pending on USBRL(there is minor excavation of about 200 m left in some tunnel) and come 2024 may be we can have Kanyakumari to Baramulla express
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Indian Railways hands over 20 broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh]Indian Railways hands over 20 broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh
New Delhi: In a bid to strengthen bilateral relations, Indian Railways virtually handed over 20 Broad Gauge (BG) locomotives to Bangladesh in a ceremony held at Rail Bhavan New Delhi. The event was attended by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Bangladesh Minister for Railways Nurul Islam Sujan.

These locomotives, provided as grant assistance from the Government of India, fulfill an important commitment made during the visit of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina to India in October 2019.
The Indian side has suitably modified the locomotives to meet the requirements of Bangladesh Railway. This handover will contribute to handling the increasing volume of passenger and freight train operations in Bangladesh.

Speaking on this occasion, Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “India’s relationship with Bangladesh is civilizational, cultural, social and economic. Prime Ministers of both the countries are playing proactive role to improve bilateral relationship across social, economic and political sectors. Indian Railways are also playing a vital role in improving and strengthening rail connectivity across the border and improving trade between both the countries.“
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Drone Journey on WDFC between Panvel and JNPT(May 2023), the section on which there is very little progress. Tata+IRCON+Mitsui were kicked out last year for non-progress but were re-instated. I am not sure even the new deadline and target of June 2024 can be met, just too much work left:

https://youtu.be/gmWZ4xIX22M
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EDFC Progress 50 km Yamunanagar to Ambala Single line. GMR Construction. Part of Sahnewal(Ludhiana) to New Pilkhani(near Saharanpur) section. Target June 2023. This New Pilkhani to Sahnewal section will not be completed by June. There is a bypass around Ambala Cantt. That is a 25km section and tracks are not linked there. That bypass has two flyovers, over the GT Road(bridge is possibly in place, I have linked an old video here of the bridges resting next to the GT road) and rail over rail flyover over the Delhi--Kurukshetra---Ambala line(bridge in place see video, but abutments not ready in the 8 month old video). Somehow I fear with the GoI slowly entering full election mode, attention to infra projects are flagging.
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Yamunanagar to Ambala 50 km EDFC progress: Most of the work left is loop lines, station buildings and OHE work. Target is June 2023, GMR construction, maybe OHE is some other sub-contractor. He says clearly what we all know and I have repeated many times, that due to non-availability of land in Ambala Cantt., EDFC bypasses Ambala Cantt. and rejoins running next to IR around Ambala City station and then to Shambhu. That part Ambala City to Shambhu is covered by The Train Explorer guy and there track linking is not done. This guy says he wants to see progress of rail flyover over the Delhi to Ambala line by EDFC on Ambala Cantt. bypass, but that rail flyover as also the flyover of EDFC over the GT road on this Ambala Cantt. bypass has been ready since almost a year, all they have to do is track linking.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/c ... 55651.html

The major stockyard for track is seen in this video at Barara where the NTC machine is loaded via the gantries. Just 25 km of track linking left from near Shambhu to Ambala City to Ambala Cantt. bypass and joining EDFC on this completed section in this video at Dukheri outside Ambala, rest all done it seems at least tracks. Still June 2023 is not possible, by Dec 2023. They may claim some progress by starting Sahnewal to Shambhu by June 2023 end. I want to see the other side Rohana Kalan----Taheri Buzurg------Tapri------New Pilkhani about 45 km progress.

https://youtu.be/lqBtiMxE2wk

Flyovers on Ambala Cantt. bypass, old video 8 months old, work on this bypass is slow 25km. Most likely in June they may declare some partial progress from Ludhiana to Shambhu the start of Ambala bypass. Beyond the bypass, the video ^^^ shows a lot of work is over except station buildings, OHE work and loop lines all the way to New Pilkhani.

https://youtu.be/4Fuhu48ksSs

Ambala to Shambhu track linking still left, this is essentially the Ambala bypass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-i10CZmw14
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Three Iconic projects of India in one frame, Someone has cut the frames out of videos I posted above and put it together. In frame 2: DB Patil International airport under construction on right, runway can be seen. WDFC in the center and Mumbai--Delhi Expressway connector to JNPT on left.

https://twitter.com/Sahilinfra2/status/ ... fNjY8uAAAA

Mumbai Transharbor Link is also seen going above WDFC. Transharbor link goes to the new airport.
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As I have been saying since ages: EDFC to Dankuni in WB is dead and it will only be constructed to Andal just inside the WB border from Jharkhand due to non-cooperation by WB govt. Also GoI has given up on PPP mode for the Son Nagar to Andal section and gone in for constructing the section traditionally. Originally 500km between Son Nagar to Dankuni, but now will be 346km Son Nagar to Andal so 150km shorter. Given how much time the project has taken, this will now take another 6-7 years. Here are the tender documents


https://dfccil.com/upload/NIT_IREPS_26_05_2023_4YCJ.pdf

https://dfccil.com/upload/RFPDocumentfo ... l_CIP8.pdf

https://dfccil.com/upload/General_Notif ... l_BTGJ.pdf

I am not sure why they wasted 15 years trying for PPP mode. Jharkhand has a Naxal problem where Naxals routinely blow up and torch construction machinery and abduct construction personnel and WB has also serious issues. No private company will enter into a PPP agreement with uncertain law and order.

Any day now there will be news that 17km between Ahraura Rd to DDU/Mughalsarai of EDFC is commissioned finishing the double line from Dadri (UP) to Son Nagar(Bihar) of EDFC. Left is Khurja to Ludhiana 400km single line out of which 125km is commissioned. Between Khurja and Ludhiana about 85km is left for track laying. So by Dec 2023 all of the EDFC to Son Nagar from Dadri and Ludhiana will be complete finishing 1340km of the EDFC to Son Nagar. Then 350 km to Andal maybe will take 2 more generations.

India rose from slot 54 to 38 in the latest World Bank logistics rankings.
Government wants to reduce the logistics cost from 14% of GDP one of the highest to about 8% or less. With commissioning of DFCs and various Sagarmala and Bharatmala projects, India will climb higher and with increased Capex, logistics cost will also fall.
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India rose from slot 54 to 38 in the latest World Bank logistics rankings.
Government wants to reduce the logistics cost from 14% of GDP one of the highest to about 8% or less. With commissioning of DFCs and various Sagarmala and Bharatmala projects, India will climb higher and with increased Capex, logistics cost will also fall.
I don't understand the Logistics Performance Indicator methodology.

I lived in Japan for many years. It was routinely accepted that retail price of goods such as food products could be as much as 90% for logistics and distribution. How's that made it possible for it to be higher than India?

Also in tiny country like Singapore, which is top of the list, goods don't have to travel very far at all. How do you compare that to auto parts from Delhi being shipped out from Chennai?
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Alstom emerges as lowest bidder for 100 aluminium Vande Bharat trains

Its a massive order book.
"Another interesting point to note is that Alstom made a strategic decision to bid with a lower price point for the alluminium trains when compared to their bid for steeel trains. This means that the company strategically wanted to win this order,"
Alstom already builds its own tech WAG12 the mostest powerfulest electric loco @ 12000 HP in India and maintains them at Shahranpur

Looks like Alstom really wanted this order.

Maybe, India should consider models with a say 60-40 split between L1 and L2 to avoid single supplier dependency.
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RRTS (Rapid Rail Transit System) Delhi to Meerut ready for inauguration by PM Modi mid June on the priority section(Sahibabad to Duhai depot). This is on Standard gauge and runs at 160 kmph. First rapid rail transport in India. Entire section upto Meerut will be ready by Dec 2024. Priority section is 17km

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5I0vhZR3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbfF4V09jd8

Total Length on completion 82km.
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rahulm wrote:Alstom emerges as lowest bidder for 100 aluminium Vande Bharat trains

Its a massive order book.
"Another interesting point to note is that Alstom made a strategic decision to bid with a lower price point for the alluminium trains when compared to their bid for steeel trains. This means that the company strategically wanted to win this order,"
Alstom already builds its own tech WAG12 the mostest powerfulest electric loco @ 12000 HP in India and maintains them at Shahranpur

Looks like Alstom really wanted this order.

Maybe, India should consider models with a say 60-40 split between L1 and L2 to avoid single supplier dependency.
1. Recently IR did same. Early April Indian Railways has selected the consortium of Russia's JSC Metrowagonmash-Mytischi (TMH) and India's RVNL to manufacture 120 Sleeper Vande Bharat trains. This JV (TMH+ RVNL) was L1 & will make these trains at a facility in Latur.

Another JV Titagarh Wagons+ BHEL came L2 in this tender & they are going to manufacture of 80 Vande Bharat trains matching L1 rates. They will make train sets at Titagarh Uttarpara (WB) plant & ICF Chennai Plant (Leased to BHEL).


2. Alstom India has huge Coach manufacturing plants at Andhra Pradesh (Sri-city) & Gujarat (Maneja & Savli). Both this facilities are world class & have scale. Alston is frequently winning contracts for supplying Metro coaches for various Indian metro projects. May be this allowed them to bid aggressively for Aluminium Vande Bharat train sets.
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for Ref.


Titagarh-BHEL Consortium Sets Vande Bharat Trains' Contract Value Close To Rs 25,000 Crore: Official

UPDATED: 03 MAR 2023 9:59 AM

The contract value of Vande Bharat trains for Titagarh Wagons Ltd (TWL)-Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) consortium is estimated at Rs 25,000 crore for manufacturing of 80 train sets and maintaining them for the next 35 years, a senior company official said on Thursday. Russia's CJSC Transmashholding and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (TMH-RVNL) consortium has emerged as the lowest bidder. The second lowest bidder was the consortium of state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) and Titagarh Wagons. TWL-BHEL consortium will be given a chance to match the lowest bid to bag a share of the tender.

TMH-RVNL consortium, which has emerged as the lowest bidder, will make 120 train sets, while TWL-BHEL is eligible for 80 train sets. Each train set will have 16 coaches. "This is a prestigious contract and will be a game changer, we are eligible for manufacturing the 80 train sets, which is worth around Rs 25,000 crore inclusive of maintenance for 35 years.

This will help us to change the perception of Titagarh Wagons in the global market as an international passenger train coach builder," TWL vice-chairman & MD Umesh Chaudhary told PTI. TMH-RVNL had bid aggressively at Rs 120 crore to make a train, while TWL-BHEL's bid value was Rs 139.8 crore to build each train set. The L2 (second lowest)bidder has to match the lowest bid to bag a share of the tender.


https://www.outlookindia.com/business/t ... ews-266828
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Vande Bharat: Russia’s TMH-RVNL consortium emerges lowest bidder

DHNS, MAR 02 2023, 07:34 ISTUPDATED: MAR 02 2023, 07:34 IST

The consortium of Russia’s largest rolling stock maker Transmashholding (TMH), and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a railway public sector firm, have emerged as the lowest bidder for the Rs 58,000-crore tender for produce and maintenance of 200 Vande Bharat trains.
The consortium had a bid of Rs 120 crore per train with steel body, a senior official in the Railways said here. The consortium of state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) and Titagarh Wagons emerged as the second lowest bidder which quoted Rs 139.8 crore per train.

As per the tender conditions, the lowest bidder (L1) will be awarded to manufacture, supply and maintenance of 120 trains while the remaining 80 trains would be awarded to produce to the second lowest bidder provided that the bidder matches the price offered by the lowest bidder(LI). If the second lowest bidder refused to take up the contract, then the same offer would be extended to the third lowest bidder. If the third bidder refused to take the contract, then the contract for manufacturing the remaining 80 trains would be given to L1 bidder.

The lowest bidder (L1) has to supply the first prototype train within two years. As per the tender document, 120 trains would be made at the Latur facility of the Indian Railways. The remaining 80 trains would be manufactured in
Chennai.

The trains would be maintained at five-six government depots in cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Jodhpur.

Of the Rs 58,000 crore for the entire project, Rs 26,000 crore is the upfront payment on the delivery of the trains, and Rs 32,000 crore will be paid to the winning bidder over a period of 35 years for the maintenance of these trains.

Other players in the race in the project include French rolling stock major Alstom and Swiss makers Stadler with India’s Medha, Indian makers BEML and German multinational Siemens.

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/v ... 96403.html
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Dedicated Freight Corridor Hits Remarkable Milestone By Running One Lakh Trains...

https://swarajyamag.com/infrastructure/ ... akh-trains
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@Rajkumar Please do not post fake news. The DFCs are NOT going to be ready by Dec 2023. Possibly December 2024. The DFC management just makes up these deadlines and even claims false things like the Dadri to Rewari line is operational when any half brained idiot knows that it is not complete. The problem with NRIs is that you have ZERO idea of the network, operations or ground realities and rely on newspapers and their dumb and idiot reporters who never even go to the work site. I have even videos to back everything I say, let someone contradict me and then I will produce the videos.

I just posted an effing video of the Panvel JNPT stretch ^^^ and the incredible amount of earthworks still left and a whole hill to cut down, and people post and buy this fake Dec 2023 completion date.
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vsunder wrote:@Rajkumar Please do not post fake news. The DFCs are NOT going to be ready by Dec 2023. Possibly December 2024. The DFC management just makes up these deadlines and even claims false things like the Dadri to Rewari line is operational when any half brained idiot knows that it is not complete. The problem with NRIs is that you have ZERO idea of the network, operations or ground realities and rely on newspapers and their dumb and idiot reporters who never even go to the work site. I have even videos to back everything I say, let someone contradict me and then I will produce the videos.
vsunder, it's a cut & paste from the Swaraj article.
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https://youtu.be/Q4S-gyMbv5s

If the Railway Board Member Jaya Verma Sinha says Dec 2024 is the completion date for EDFC and WDFC, what the effing hell is any magazine or newspaper's credibility. And the Director operations DFC Srinivas is standing next to her in the video (on her left)while she is saying all this. Guy with his hands over his crotch. She is very clear Dec 2024 connectivity to JNPT and adds if at all that.

See the video 2:15 onwards when Siddhartha asks the question when will the project be done. Video is 4 days old.

She is also very clear that the last 17km bit Ahraura Rd---Jeonathpur(intermodal hub)----DDU of EDFC finishing the main double lined section Dadri(UP) to Son Nagar(Bihar) will be achieved NEXT month. That is what I have said many, many times. All this Swaraj, etc Times of India is all bakwaas. Hindi newspapers like Jagran or the local Varanasi newspaper who send a beat reporter to actually see the progress and file a report are far more reliable.

TATA Construction has done a horrible job with project management and screwed up the WDFC big time. They should be banned in future. All the delay is due to them. No standards.
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Mollick.R wrote:Vande Bharat: Russia’s TMH-RVNL consortium emerges lowest bidder

As per the tender conditions, the lowest bidder (L1) will be awarded to manufacture, supply and maintenance of 120 trains while the remaining 80 trains would be awarded to produce to the second lowest bidder provided that the bidder matches the price offered by the lowest bidder(LI). If the second lowest bidder refused to take up the contract, then the same offer would be extended to the third lowest bidder. If the third bidder refused to take the contract, then the contract for manufacturing the remaining 80 trains would be given to L1 bidder.
Wonder why IR didn't follow this model for the Aluminium body VB train. It all went to L1.
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New ayodhya railway station | Ayodhya railway station redevelopment| Ram mandir construction ayodhya
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Little dated video, but still posting just for fun.....

1st Modern Railway Station* Rani Kamlapati Railway Station Inauguration Vlog
Video Date 16th Nov 2021

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While researching for various facts about Vandey Bharat, found this critical opinion, dates back to September 2019.......
May be more learned members of this thread can discuss & throw some lights on the points raised by author

https://railsamachar.com/english/?p=42
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HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE TODAY. MAIN ARM OF EDFC DOUBLE ELECTRIFIED TRACK FROM DADRI(UP) TO SONNAGAR(BIHAR) COMPLETED TODAY.

With the completion today of the Ahraura Rd, to DDU(Mughalsarai) yard 27km section EDFC (Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor) is complete from Dadri (UP) to Son Nagar(Bihar). What remains is the single lined 400km section from Khurja to Sahnewal(Ludhiana). Out of this 400km, 125km Khurja to Khatauli is operational. Dadri to Son Nagar runs parallel to the Delhi to Howrah Grand Chord route and with this the entire route between Dadri and Son Nagar is quadrupled and in places even pentupled. Dadri to Son Nagar distance is 900km

https://twitter.com/dfccil_india/status ... zOxZcuAAAA

On this 27km there is Jeonathpur between Ahraura and DDU yard and Jeonathpur is now an intermodal hub. The barge traffic port for IW-1 (Inland Waterway Route 1) Farakka to Varanasi on Ganga is here, EDFC and IR also have interconnections at Jeonathpur and also three national Highways all meet at Jeonathpur NH 44, 35, 19 and this is being developed as a major container terminal.

EDFC is 1330 km in length. The remaining 500km from Son Nagar to Dankuni GoI failed to attract interest for PPP mode development and WB govt did not cooperate and Jharkhand Govt also was non-cooperative. GoI will now after trying for 15 years pursue Son Nagar to Andal 350km a shortened EDFC. Andal is just inside the WB border from Jharkhand. There are quadruple IR tracks most of the way Dankuni to Andal so possibly it may not be a great loss. This 350km sections to be built passes through ghat section of Chotta Nagpur hills of Grand Chord, Gurpa to Gujhandi section, Gomoh and Dhanbad so connections with many coalfields and also through Asansol, Durgapur and finally Andal.
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Vande Bharat is no doubt important, but the MOST important thing is to meet the goals in this internal document of the Railways. Mission 3000 million tonnes of freight by 2027 and it is full of graphs. You have to bring down the cost of logistics from 14% of GDP to 8% of GDP. See the comparison bar graphs with other countries, There are tables of commodity baskets carried by Railways and by all transportation systems in India. Coal as expected is the biggest chunk for the Railways and remains so over the years as in that table, steel and cement are other commodities that make up a sizeable chunk of what the Railways transports. The document details what preparations have to be undertaken in railway yards, conversion of yards to smart yards to better process freight and take advantage of the higher speeds on the DFCs which will bring in their own problems of identifying wagons with bearing problems, hot box and hot wheel problems of flat wheels, installation of trackside pyrometers to measure temperature as a wagon flashes by ditto for Vande Bharat and other faster moving trains where manual inspection will not cut ice anymore. New improved wagons the BOXN-HS variety(HS stands for high speed) all have to be ordered in numbers. This is a document in PDF from October 2022.

https://indianrailways.gov.in/railwaybo ... MT3000.pdf
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Q. Asked by our Rail Mantriji:
Q Guess this train in making⁉️

Hint: Jack n Jill went up the hill.

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(Photo Credit: Ashwini Vaishnaw)

Here is a different train: Can you guess where?
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Coromandel Express collides with Bangalore - Howrah superfast and a Goods train. 50 dead, 350 injured with numbers rising.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/c ... 2023-06-02
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This derailment is really sad and a repeat of the horrible accident at Khanna (between Ambala and Ludhiana) some years ago. Same scenario. Golden Temple Mail speeding at 3am towards Amritsar from Mumbai central derailed due to a broken rail. Several coaches piled on to the Up line where minutes later a speeding Jammu Tawi to Sealdah Express rammed into the derailed coaches. 212 people died. It happened in November 1998 and the cold and early morning hours prevented efficient evacuation of the wounded and caused more deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanna_rail_disaster

Metallurgical analysis revealed that the original broken rail that caused Golden Temple Mail/Frontier mail was due to hydrogen embrittlement, improper welding--- wet electrodes can allow "atomic" hydrogen to enter steel, defects in the manufacturing process at the steel plant and or corrosion due to open waste discharge those days or corrosion due to natural causes all cause hydrogen embrittlement which causes cracks to propagate along steel. The RDSO guidelines is that hydrogen in steel rails 880H should not exceed 1.8 ppm or even 1080HH rails. Here is a basic primer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement

What caused the initial derailment of Coromandel express will be revealed by a safety board. This train has a jinx and this is not the first horrible derailment it has suffered. That is what I am telling the Vande Bharat crowd here, its ok but proper procedures to detect hot box(hot bearings) and hot wheels(wheels having flat pieces, you can detect the sound on some videos I have posted here, why is IR allowing such coaches to even get this far?? when even it is noticeable on a video) and hanging brake hoses and pipes are NOT in place on IR other than manual inspection and these need to be replaced by trackside pyrometers and other more sophisticated monitoring systems to catch problems before they become life threatening. In addition proper process has to be followed by welding teams who flout proper guidelines "chalta hai" attitude mixing thermite in tin cans etc. You need welding trucks that use high voltage current and melt the rails like the DFCs are doing. There are hardly enough such trucks to go around on IR and just recently someone was posting here a tender for ultrasonic crack detection mobile units. The tender called for 1 in every zone, that is crazy, with such a large amount of track kilometers, what will 1 unit do. One such accident at high speed on VB and you will kill a lot more people and no amount of the "pretty please" faltu pics posted here by some of you will help. I said so YOU DO NOT KNOW BASIC METALLURGY AND THE NETWORK. and will reiterate this. Its annoying to scroll down a bunch of useless stuff to reach a post that someone has posted that is serious information like AkshaySG's post informing about the accident.

The Railways initiated a program in 2018 to automate detection of coach, wagon and locomotive defects and trialled it at Panipat yard in Ambala division in Northern Railway. It was a success and the plan was to have 25 such "smart yards" with a national monitoring center at Delhi Kishenganj. The aim was to slowly expand to a very large number of yards. Trackside equipment was to instantly alert via SMS text and an alarm to staff monitoring digital equipment if a coach, wagon or locomotive had a problem.

I have observed that some posters on this forum go to a large number of threads to post inane stuff. The distinct impression I have is that this behavior reminds me of a dog going to several "posts"(pun intended) and lifting its leg and urinating against the post to mark in their mind some sort of territory. Such behavior as Shiv would say if one applies piskology betrays a rather fragile ego that needs gratification at every step. Just saying and observing.
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