CR’s Parel Workshop rolls-out 100th Non-Customer Engine

Mumbai: In a landmark achievement,Central Railway’s Parel workshop has rolled out its 100th indigenously manufactured engine in non-customer category, since its inception in

2007.

The engine comes with a micro-processor based control system,which activates the brakes and cuts off the fuel supply in case of any fault in the engine, Central Railway Chief PRO Narendra Patil told reporters here yesterday.

The system activates the brakes and cuts off the fuel supply in case of any fault in the engine.  The WDS6 diesel engine has 1350 HP and weighs 126 tonne, he said.

This is the 100th engine in the non-customer (non-passenger) category made at the workshop since it started in 2007, Patil said

Passenger safety was given topmost priority while designing the new locomotive, Chief Workshop Manager of the Parel Workshop Mr.Sumit Sharma told. There could be a possibility of the engine driver being inattentive or not controlling the systems properly.

In the new engine (a WDS 6 loco), a vigilance-controlled device is active every 90 seconds. It can detect any fault in the engine, be it the pressure levels or the working of various components in the locomotive.

If there is a slight fault,it will indicate it on a computerized panel before bringing the loco to a halt.

The new engine,which was flagged off from the workshop recently, will be attached to long-distance trains. The workshop has already lined up 14 more engines with micro-processor based controls to be manufactured in coming months.

The Parel workshop,which was originally set up for repairs and rehab of diesel locomotives,has been manufacturing engines since March 2007.While this is the workshops 100th WDS 6 locomotive,it has also manufactured 43 WDG-3 A type engines (those used in goods/freight wagon trains).

The Parel workshop had recently set up a GPS-based remote monitoring and management of locomotive and train (REMMLOT) system to enable monitoring of the micro-processor locomotives location,health and faults.This workshop is the first-of-its kind in Indian Railways to install the REMMLOT system on locomotives.