Railway development in Karnataka

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LOVELY!! The High Court has suggested something that I always wanted to, but in a different context and with a better reason than mine. The state government should be party to most decisions involving the railways within its territory.

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Originally Posted by tejaswi.bgl

LOVELY!! The High Court has suggested something that I always wanted to, but in a different context and with a better reason than mine. The state government should be party to most decisions involving the railways within its territory.

The order is for specific a case and not a general order that State Government to be made a party. In case the state government is involved we will find a clamour for railway lines to all the politicians constituency and a stop in every station for all trains. The habit of going to court for such issues in my opinion must be discouraged or soon we will find Courts of different states giving contradictory orders which will result in only further litigation.

[MysoreOne]

Infrastructure at rail workshop in Mysore being ramped up

The infrastructure at the Central Railway Workshop in Mysore city is being ramped up for undertaking the periodic overhauling and maintenance of Linke Holfmann Busch (LHB) coaches that constitute the rakes of the Shatabdi and the Rajdhani trains.

This is part of the capacity building of the railway workshops across the country as the Indian Railways plans to substitute the conventional Integral Coach Factory-designed coaches with the German technology-based LHB coaches for most Indian trains in the long run.

“The Mysore workshop has been upgraded to handle the LHB coaches and 29 such coaches have been overhauled here since October 2012. The workshop’s installed capacity at present is to take up maintenance of eight LHB coaches a month or 96 coaches a year. This is in addition to the periodic overhauling and maintenance of 70 ICF-designed coaches a month, of which 10 will be AC coaches. The workshop also takes up intermediate overhauling of 40 coaches a month,” Mr. U. Subba Rao, chief workshop manager, said.

Though the LHB coaches are expensive (One LHB coach costs about Rs. 1.8 crore while an for an ICF coach costs Rs. 65 lakh), they are found to be more efficient and capable of higher speeds ranging from 160 kmph to 200 kmph and reckoned to be safer while providing greater ride comfort.

The LHB coaches at present are air-conditioned, the Railways has designed non-AC LHB coaches as well and they will supplant the conventional ICF coaches in future, according to Mr. Subba Rao.

V. Suresh, senior section engineer, Bogie Repair Shop, said there were nearly 100 LHB coaches operating out of the Bangalore Railway Division but as Bangalore does not have a railway workshop, infrastructure had been put in place at the Central Workshop at Ashokapuram here for coach maintenance.

“The load will be shared between the Mysore and the Hubli workshops, and we have presented a proposal for capacity upgrading,” Mr. Rao added.

read more:- http://www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...cle4745687.ece

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Trains cancelled

South Western Railway has partially cancelled or cancelled several trains due to doubling and maintenance works being carried in Mysore division.

read more:- http://www.deccanherald.com/content/...cancelled.html

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Tenders to be floated to shift Tipu's armoury

The Railways will shortly float tenders to shift Tipu’s armoury adjacent to the proposed second railway line at Srirangapatna.

read more:- http://www.deccanherald.com/content/...s-armoury.html

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INAUG. OF ON BD.INFOTAINMENT ON I/C EXP

Mysore division which has become pioneers in on board infotainment in the country, inaugurated the same on I/C express train recently. It was heartening that this project initiated by me in 2009, has become a successful model in the country and is available on all 5 I/C exp on mysore division. Thanks to all the members of my team in commercial dept. who toiled for the success of this project - DCM, Mysore Division





Source:- Dr.Anup Dayanand.Sadhu

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Mysore, YF metre gauge steam loco

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