Indian Railways to Adopt Safer, Faster and Efficient Predictive Maintenance, Online Monitoring of Rolling Stock

Indian Railways is adopting Condition Based Maintenance, Online Monitoring of Rolling Stock (OMRS) and Predictive Maintenance techniques for Smart Yards on its network to improve safety, reliability and efficiency. Read more

SCR takes 30 trains on electric traction : To save Rs 53 crores

South Central Railway, has taken 30 trains on electric traction during the current fiscal FY20 Read more

SER: 288 locomotives now fitted with RTIS

288 locomotives on SER with RTIS. Trains hauled by RTIS device enabled locomotives can be plotted in train control chart automatically.It gives mid-section location updates and current speed. Read more

IR to procure 44 Vande Bharat train sets: Tender out

IR to procure 44 semi-high speed train sets. These train sets will be procured in multiples of basic Units of four coaches each which can be attached or detached from… Read more

LHB rake for Chennai Coimbatore inter-city

LHB rake for Chennai Coimbatore Inter-city express. Read more

CLW turns out 300th loco for FY20

300 locos produced as on date by CLW. The number of working days for production of 300th loco has reduced from 292 days inFY18 to 249 days in FY19 and… Read more

CR : Conversion of 3rd rake of Mumbai-Nagercoil Express to LHB Rake

Railways have converted the 3rd  rake out of 5 rakes of 16339/16340 Mumbai – Nagercoil Express and 16351/16352 Mumbai-Nagercoil Express into LHB rake on permanent basis as under: The third rake… Read more

CR : 3 pairs of trains to run on Electric traction end to end

Central Railway has decided to run 3 pairs of trains for Nagercoil/Thiruvananthapuram hauled by electric loco end to end. The following are the pairs of trains. 16340 Nagarcoil – Mumbai… Read more

Railway Ministry Organizes Conference on Wagon Development

Inaugurating the Conference, Member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board, Shri Rajesh Agrawal said the aim is that 45 per cent of total freight movement in the country should be by rail. Read more

Push-Pull: Missing the Woods for the Trees?

The Indian Railways should pause a while and consider whether these may actually be the wrong class of trains which are being prioritized for this format Read more