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Tuesday, 24 November 2015

20:09

Designer Coaches of Railways offer Excellent Ambience & Modern Facilities

Designer Coaches of Railways offer Excellent Ambience & Modern Facilities

New Delhi: Languorous luxurious travel and a ‘homely’ feel on Indian Railways will no more be a wishful thinking!

The new luxury coaches of Indian Railways built under ‘ Make in India’ have ergonomic jerk-less seats, with beautifully done interiors in bright rich colours. Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu tweeted pictures of the new designer coaches on Monday.

The coaches are spacious, fitted with modern amenities, have bigger side berths, LED reading lights, snacks table and bio-toilets system installed in them.

As per reports, out of 100 plus coaches to be build initially, 87 would be non AC, 17 would be for AC 3 tier, 5 for AC 2 tier and one each for AC 1 and chair car. While AC coaches have been built at the cost of Rs 70 lakh, sleeper coaches cost Rs 49 lakh.

Indian Railways is also expected to launch phase two of luxury coaches which will include executive class chair car coaches for Shatabdi Express.

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, in the month of February roped-in Ahmedabad based NID to re-design the train coaches with an aim to provide comfortable journey to passengers wherein National Institute of Design (NID) will architect the designer coaches for the purpose.

Meanwhile, four new NIDs are coming up at Vijayawada, Jorhat, Kurukshetra and Bhopal, the statement said.
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Monday, 3 August 2015

23:15

N.I.D MOU with Ministry of Railways

N.I.D  MOU with Ministry of Railways
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed on 10.04.2015 between the Ministry of Railways and the National Institute of Design (N.I.D.), Ahmedabad for setting up of a Railway Design Centre at N.I.D. campus, Ahmedabad.

The MOU aims at collaboration between Ministry of Railways and N.I.D. in various fields of design, relevant to rail transport and allied activities.

Railway Design Centre at N.I.D. has become operational since May 2015.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha.

Source :PIBNEWS.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015

15:40

Indian Railways Give Aesthetic Look to Passenger Tickets

Indian Railways Give Aesthetic Look to Passenger Tickets

NEW DELHI: While Indian Railways continue to struggle for providing quality food and travel experience to passengers aboard trains, it has decided to give a aesthetic and uniform look to passengers tickets. Railway Board has already circulated the set format of passenger tickets to all zonal railways for the same.

The need to have a uniform look for passenger tickets was felt as at present 16 different format of tickets under unreserved ticketing system (UTS) are prevalent in different zones in the country.

The existing format of UTS tickets has been reviewed in consultation with CRIS (Centre for Railway Information Systems), the IT arm of railways. Of the 13 million passengers who travel by train, nearly 12 million are unreserved passengers.

“Based on feedback received from CRIS, it has been decided that 16 formats of UTA tickets may be replaced with seven formats,” said an order issued by Vikram Singh, Director Passenger Marketing, Railway Board.    

The specifications say that the size of the ticket shall remain same 120mmX64mm with advertisement and 103mmX64mm without advertisement. The printable area shall be 78mmX59mm. The caption of ‘Happy Journey’ (in English and Hindi) shall be printed at one side of Indian Railways logo and pre-printed stock number on the other side of Indian Railways logo.

According to CRIS official, a design competition was held whereby ideas were crowd sourced and some of the best have been selected.       

“The idea was to give aesthetic and uniform look to UTS tickets and now all zones have been instructed to take necessary actions,” said the official.

Railway has also tied up with Ahmedabad based National Institute of Design (NID) for an image over of state run transporter and passengers can expect designer interiors, quality beddings, innovative designing, green toilets and user friendly coaches.

The NID will improve passenger services through innovative ideas focusing on people, environment and sustainability through this Research Centre. It will also design ladder for upper berths, lighting arrangements at stations and circulating areas to give an aesthetic touch to rail facilities.

Railway has signed agreements with other ministries for making a coordinated effort to improve services. It already has arrangements with the road transport ministry for construction of ROB/RUB, coal ministry for improving coal linkage and urban development ministry for development of areas around railways stations.

 Source :The New Indian Express.
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Monday, 22 June 2015

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Tuesday, 16 June 2015

15:45

Railways to make two routes 'zero toilet discharge' by October 2

Railways to make two routes 'zero toilet discharge' by October 2

New Delhi: Indian Railways is all set to make its tracks on two routes free from discharge of waste from toilets by installing environment-friendly zero discharge toilet system in the coaches of the trains running on these sections by October 2.

Gearing up to achieve a unique milestone in the 'Swachh Bharat' mission, railways have identified Kanalus-Dwarka-Okha and Porbunder-Wansjalya routes in Gujarat to make it "zero toilet discharge" sections.

"Kanalus-Dwarka-Okha and Porbunder-Wansjalya section have been identified to be made 'zero toilet discharge' sections by October 2 this year," Railway Board Member (Mechanical) Hemant Kumar said in New Delhi on Monday.

The zero toilet discharge section envisages all trains passing on that particular route would have bio-toilets which eliminate open discharge of waste on the rail tracks from the existing toilets.

Railways had launched a massive cleaning operation on October 2, 2014 when the then Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda had led from the front by picking up the broom to clean New Delhi station.

Kumar said Jammu-Katra and Manmadurai-Rameswaram sections would be made a fully green one later in 2015.

Bio-toilets have been introduced in the rail coaches to eliminate open discharge of waste on the track. In the bio- toilets, the waste is digested by specially developed bacteria and only small amount of clean water is discharged.

Kumar said the railways have installed more than 17,000 bio-toilets in trains till March 2015, and has set a target to fit 17,000 more such toilets in this fiscal. It costs about Rs 3 lakh to install four "Zero Discharge Toilet System" in a coach.

Railways is also planning to change the existing ladder in sleeper and AC coaches in order to make them more user-friendly. Ladders have been already changed in the AC-1 coaches and new design for other class coaches are being finalised to be replaced with the existing ones, Kumar said.

Railways have joined hands with NID to design a more user- friendly ladders for sleeper and AC class coaches.

Asked about the progress in manufacturing of state-of-the -art 'Anubhuti' rail coach, Kumar said the contract to manufacture the coach had to be awarded again as the contractor awarded the work could not deliver it and also there were pricing issues involved in it.

He, however, said Anubhuti project was not in the cold storage and would be manufactured. The then Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had announced the introduction of Anubhuti coaches with state-of-the-art facility to passengers of select Rajdhanis and Shatabdis with much fanfare in his Rail Budget 2013.

 SOURCE:IBNLIVE
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Thursday, 21 May 2015

07:13

Railways, NID go back to the drawing board to improve efficiency

Railways, NID go back to the drawing board to improve efficiency

Ahmedabad (ADI): On board an intercity train called EMU (electrical multiple unit), how important is it to hold on to the grab handle so that one does not fall on some other person or in a long-distance train, to get on to the upper berth without having to go through the embarrassment of losing one’s balance?

These are some of the 50 areas identified for innovative design changes, where the Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Design will work with the Indian Railways.

“We ourselves have the capability to redesign but our responses are conditioned so we thought there is no harm in getting fresh inputs,” Hemant Kumar, member (mechanical), Railway Board, told.

The design for the ladder was specifically mentioned by Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu when the areas for design changes were being identified, said Kumar.

Earlier, ladders in passenger coaches had just two steps with the first step being too high, but then three steps were created. Initially, there was use of steel pipe but to make it injury friendly, PU cover was being used.

“Now we are studying whether a fourth step can be added. But, the biggest challenge is to climb the side upper berth where you climb in one direction but have to suddenly turn,” he said. The climbing device could be in conjunction with something else like a hand holder.

Initially, ladders, toilets and colour schemes have been identified as possible areas for redesigning. The design for toilets, for instance, has to be such that from operational and cleanability point of view, it is an improvement over the existing design. The design also has to ensure to a large extent that the toilet remains clean during the journey.

In the normal course, layout and design of trains and their coaches is worked out by the Railways’ Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO), which after being approved by the Railway Board, undergoes detailed designing by the production units like Rail Coach Factory and Integrated Coach Factory. The new initiative with NID is, however, for out of the box thinking.

Under the memorandum of understanding signed between the Railways and NID last month, an offsite facility of NID would be created within the RDSO campus. Some of the design ideas relating to station architecture, coach interiors, platforms and circulating areas could be physically exhibited at Manaknagar station which serves RDSO.

The Railways has created a corpus of Rs 10 crore with interest on this amount funding some of these redesigning activities. Monitoring would be done by a committee though the shortlisted designs would be tested and report on them would be studied by the respective directorates in the Railways.

Another important experiment with regard to design is to prevent dustbins from overflowing during journeys.

“The focus is to increase the capacity of dustbins, so we are trying out the concept of a compactor. Initial design has been tried out in one coach in the Central railway,” said Kumar. “By trial, we have seen that the capacity of dustbins increases by five to six times.”

The existing capacity of dustbins is 20 litre of garbage. The Railways are trying to bring in special bins that can carry 35 litres and then add compactor to it.

“We are seeing whether existing dustbins can be retrofitted or new ones will be required. The issue of safety needs to be resolved so that a user’s hand does not get injured in the compactor,” said Kumar.

HOTEL LOAD CONCEPT

From cost efficiency point of view, the Railways is also trying a completely new model of powering coaches. The concept of hotel load has been tried on five trains.

Power to coaches is conventionally supplied from power cars which make a lot of noise. These cars have diesel gensets mounted on them to meet the entire power requirement of air-conditioning, lighting and fan which is called hotel load.

The new idea is based on the concept that diesel locomotives are also power houses on wheels and can generate power. So, two locomotives are attached to either side of the train, and instead of the power cars, two additional coaches are attached to the rake.

Since diesel is used more efficiently by a locomotive because it has a far more efficient engine compared to diesel gensets, the total diesel utilisation would come down. Power acceleration would be doubled. With less fuel, it can generate same power. If hotel load requirement is less at a given point of time, then the balance power can be used for traction. Since more passengers can be carried in less time, the line capacity also increases. Coupler force, too, gets reduced because there is push and pull force working from back and front.

Hotel load has been tried out in the Ajmer-Rewari train set.

“We can start regular service with passenger trains during peak summer. The cost of laying extra line is Rs 8-9 crore per kilometre but if the throughput can increase through this, then it is worth it even if it means more locomotives.”


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Saturday, 11 April 2015

07:14

National Institute of Design to redesign railway coach interiors.

NID to design Coach interior, Pantry Car for Railways

New Delhi: Ambience of railway stations and decor of carriages are set for change as the Indian Railways has decided to join hands with the National Institute of Design to redesign coach interior, pantry car, and seating arrangements at platforms and waiting halls.

Among others, NID will also design ladder for upper berths, lighting arrangements at stations and circulating areas to give an aesthetic touch to rail facilities.

Railways will tomorrow sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Commerce and Industry Ministry for setting up of Railway Design Centre at the National Institute of Design (NID) at Ahmedabad, according to a senior Railway Ministry official.

The MoU will be signed in the presence of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Railways will provide Rs 10 cr fund to NID for the job. There will be a committee of four senior railway officials to monitor the project.
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