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Friday, November 24, 2023

RO - RO in Indian Railways

  



RO - RO in Indian Railways


  • RO - RO stands for Roll On - Roll Off

  • What is RO RO ?  A service to carry loaded trucks on Railway Wagons powered by Electrical Engines in order to decongest Roads. It is a service where trucks and cars ride piggyback on specially designed Wagons. 

  •  Win-win situation for truckers as well as for Railways  


Advantages:   

  1. Decongest the Roads 

  2. Saving cost of Diesel 

  3. Saving Man days  

  4. Reducing the pollution levels  

  5. Relief to Truck Drivers  

  6. Decrease in wear and tear of Trucks  

  7. Reach faster to Destination 

  8. Last mile connectivity


  • First in IR: ECR - East Central Railway proposed across the Ganga river 

  • Govt of India has accorded in-principle approval to the ECR’s proposal 

  • Section 32 of the Railways Act, 1989  - Railway Administration is vested with the power to quote STS - Station to Station rates / Lump Sum rates for carriage of any commodity. 

Salient features:  


  1. Railway Receipt will be issued through TMS 

  2. Defined as New commodity in IRCA Goods Tariff No.49 (Part I of Vol.I) Group No.22 

  3. Gross Weight of the Truck (Tare weight of Truck + Commodity Weight) - shall not exceed the PCC - Permissible Carrying Capacity of a particular Wagon. 

  4. Excluded commodities:  

  1. All commodities under the Main Head “Coal & Coke” 

  2. Iron ore (all types) 

  3. Military Traffic 

  1.   Subject to levy of ODC - Over Dimensional Consignment charges, Power Block as and where applicable 

  2.  Allowed as “TO and FRO” service  

  3. Number of trips per month for each rake - decided by the Zonal Railway  

  4. Penalty 5% on the Notional freight - If there is a shortfall in the minimum trips 

  5. Force Majeure clause is applicable 

  6. Free time - 3 Hours each  - At loading and unloading point. 

  7. Demurrage and wharfage shall be levied as per extant rules. 

  8. Maximum persons allowed - 2 (including truck driver). They have to purchase 2nd class tickets for the journey of equivalent value as per the coaching tariff. 

  9. Line Capacity & RO RO ;  

  •  Up to 70%  - Shall be introduced. 

  •  70% and above - Shall be examined on case to case basis 

  1.  BRN Wagons - A type of Flat wagon built solely for transporting Trucks on Railway wagons. Trucks are loaded through the ramp provided at the dead end of the loop on BRN wagons.  

  2. A full train of BRN Wagons would have 43 Wagons.  

  3. BRN / BRNA stands for Bogie Rail Truck with Airbrake 

Roll on - Roll Off  & Konkan Railways


  • 1999 - The first of its kind in India, allowed loaded trucks to be transported on Railway Wagon flatcars. 

  • There is NH-66 passing through the same route. Truck drivers find it extremely difficult to drive loaded trucks through ghats, undulating surfaces, narrow roads, and poor road and weather conditions. The KRCL came up with the concept of RORO, where loaded trucks are moved on wagons and traveled by train. 

Key Points for MCQ: 


  1. RO - RO stands for Roll On - Roll - Off

  2. First time in India - Konkan Railway - 1999 

  3. First time in IR - ECR in 2016 

  4. PCC stands for Permissible Carrying Capacity 

  5. ODC stands for Over Dimensional Capacity 

  6. Penalty - 5% on Notional freight - If there is a shortfall in the number of minimum trips. 

  7. Free time - 3 Hours at the Loading and unloading point. 

  8. Line Capacity & RO RO ;  Up to 70%  - Shall be introduced. 70% and above - Shall be examined on case to case basis

  9. Maximum persons allowed along with Truck - 2 Persons (including Driver)  

  10. BRN / BRNA stands for Bogie Rail Truck with Airbrake 

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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Konkan Railway

Konkan Railway

·         Missing link between Mumbai and Mangalore.

·         740 Kms

·         KRCL - Konkan Railway Corporation Limited

·         Govt of India Undertaking

·         Hqrs -CBD (Central Business District),  Belapur in Navi Mumbai

·         Connects Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Karnataka

·         First train flagged off on 26.01.1998

·         No of Stations - 67

·         Broad Guage (1.676mm)

·         Total Cost - Rs. 3555 Crores

·         Total Staff - 5300

From

To

Saving in distance (Kms)

Saving in Time ( In Hrs)

Mumbai

Mangalore

1127

26

 

·          Organization: CMD plus 13 Directors.

·         RO-RO - Roll-on Roll-off service - in 1999. The first of its kind in India, allowed loaded trucks to be transported on Railway Wagon flatcars.

·         There is NH-66 passing through same route. Truck drivers find it extremely difficult to drive loaded trucks through ghats, undulating surfaces, narrow roads and poor road and weather conditions. The KRCL came with concept of RORO, where loaded trucks are moved on wagons and are traveled by train. This has helped in saving of fuels, decrease in wear and tear of lorries (trucks), relief to drivers of driving in extreme conditions, can reach faster to destination. This also helps in decongestion of roads and lowering of pollution. This concept has been beneficial for both truck operators and KRCL. 

  • 100 Percent electrification from Roha (Maharashtra) to Thokur (Karnataka)  -740 Kms at a cost of Rs. 1280 Crores

Beginning

·          Initiated in the year 1971

·         1984 - Final Location Engineering cum Traffic survey

·          1988 - Survey report submitted to Railway Board.

·          Arranging funds for such mega project - very tough one.  so Dr. Bimal Jalan, then Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister, suggested the idea of a Corporation with the Centre and beneficiary states .

·         1990 - Sri E Sreedharan, who was retired as Member, Engineering, was chosen the First Chairman & MD of the Konkan Railway.

·         19.07.1990 - KRCL - Konkan Railway Corporation Limited  - incorporated as a Public Limited Company under the Companies Act, 1956.

·         First time, Govt of India had departed from its policy of controlling Railways.

·         15.09.1990 - Foundation stone laid at Roha.

 

Sreedharan style of Construction:

 

·         Entire 760 KM project divided into 7 segments.

·         Each segment headed by Chief Engineer, who was delegated with full powers.

·         The field level - with newly recruited 400 young engineers from fresh graduates.

·         At the peak of construction, not more than 2400 personnel from MD to lower level.

·         WANs/LANs for instant communication

·         Survey - First time in Indian Railways history - Sent out of  teams of boys having diploma in Engineering  with Kawasaki Bikes with petrol and Rs. 100/- Per day . Normally Jeeps and lot of people running around.  

·         30 teams in Goa worked on 16 different alignments and the data was analysed by Shri Rajaram, the Chief Engineer ( later MD of KRCL too) analysed the entire data on an assembled computer, which was bought cheap in Bangalore.  He himself designed the software for this analysis.  This approach saves 90 % of the normal cost.

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