RAILWAY ENGINEERING

Lecture 01
Introduction

RAJAT RASTOGI
CIVIL ENGINEERING

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Today’s Discussion

• Railways – World At A Glance

• Railways – India At A Glance
– Indian Railways
– National Rail Plan 2030
– Metro Systems
– Suburban Rail Systems
– High Speed Rail in India

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Railways: World At A Glance
Top 5 Networks
USA 220044 (2019)
China 150000 (2021)
Russia 105000 (2022)
India 68043 (2022)
Canada 49422 (2017)

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Railways: World At A Glance

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Railways: India At A Glance
Dec 22, 1851: Locomotive Thomason used
in Roorkee for hauling construction material
related to Solani viaduct
Feb 23, 1852: Locomotive Falkland starts
shunting in Bombay
April 16, 1853: First passenger train runs
between Bori Bunder and Thane, hauled by
locomotive Sindh, Sultan and Sahib

indianrailways.gov.in/index/index.html

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Railways: India At A Glance
Route length, kms: 68043 (BG 65094, MG 1655,
NG 1294)
Railway stations, Nos: 7308
Passenger traffic, millions: 3519 (9.64 /day)
Total Track Kilometers: 128305
Electrified Route Kilometers: 50394 Shaziawish.blogspot.com
Tractive Effort per loco: BG 40,553 kgs
Number of passenger trains runs daily: 10250
Number of goods trains runs daily: 9164
Freight carried per day, million tonnes: 3.88
Source: Railway Year Book 2021-2022

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Indian Railways: Organizational Structure

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Indian Railways: Zonal Structure
Central Railway
East Central Railway
East Coast Railway
Eastern Railway
North Central Railway
North-Eastern Railway
North-Western Railway
North-East Frontier Railway
Northern Railway
South Central Railway
South-East Central Railway
South-Eastern Railway
South-Western Railway
Southern Railway
West Central Railway
Western Railway mavink.com
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Indian Railways: Manufacturing Units
Chitranjan Locomotive Works Chitranjan
Central Organisation of Railway Electrification
Allahabad
Banaras Locomotive Works Varanasi
Diesel Loco Modernization Works Patiala
Integral Coach Factory Chennai
Mumbai Railway Vikas Corportion Mumbai Chitranjan.westbengalonline.in

Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala

Rail Wheel Factory Bangalore
Modern Coach Factory Raebareli
Rail Wheel Plant Bela
Workshop Projects Organisation Patna
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Indian Railways: Educational Units
Research Design and Standards Organisation Lucknow
National Academy of Indian Railways Vadodara
Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering Pune
Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering
Nasik
Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering Jamalpur rdso.indianrailways.gov.in

Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and

Telecommunications Secunderabad
Indian Railways Institute of Transport Management
Lucknow

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Indian Railways: National Rail Plan 2030
• AS-IS Rail network Mapping
• Geo-Referencing & Digitisation of Railway lines
and Stations
• Demand Forecast – Passenger and Freight
• Rail Network Demand Corridors
• High Density Network (HDN) rdso.indianrailways.gov.in
• Highly Utilised network (HUN)
• Freight Demand (Trains) Corridors
• Capacity Utilisation
• Dedicated Freight Corridors

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HDN Routes HUN Routes
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Freight Demand Corridors Capacity Utilisation 2051
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Indian Railways: National Rail Plan 2030
• Rail Connectivity with Industrial Corridors
• 11 corridors taken up; 30 projects upto 2025-
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• Multimodal Freight Terminal & Passenger
Terminal
• Demand for Rolling stock Passenger Terminals
• Wagons, Coaches, Locomotives, Mainline
Electric Multiple Units
• Financing and Potential Strategies

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Metro Rail: India At A Glance 2024
• Operational Routes: 862.16 km (16 cities)
• Annual Ridership: 2.708 billion
• Under Construction Routes: 593.56 km
• Planned (Approved+Proposed) Routes: 1289.07
km
• First Metro Rail System: Kolkata Metro https://c1.wallpaperflare.com/preview/502/999/633/delhi-
photos-india-metro.jpg
• Newest Metro Rail System: Navi Mumbai Metro
• Largest Metro System: Delhi Metro (351 km)
• Smallest Metro System: Kanpur Metro (8.98 km)
• Highest Ridership Metro System: Delhi Metro
Source: https://www.metrorailnews.in/metro-rail-project-at-glance-in-india/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_India

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Metro Rail: India At A Glance 2024
• Approved Metro, Metrolite and Neo-metro
projects
• Bhubaneshwar Metro 26km
• Gorakhpur Metrolite 27.41km
• Kozhikode Metrolite 13.13km
• Nashik Metro 32km https://static.tnn.in/thumb/msid-100034972,thumbsize-

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Trivandrum Metro 21.82km
• Projects proposed: 21

Source: https://www.metrorailnews.in/metro-rail-project-at-glance-in-india/

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SubUrban Rail: India At A Glance 2021
• Operational systems: 7 cities
• Operational length: 3319.84 km
• Annual Ridership: 5.5 Billion
• Planned SUR system: 469.76 km
• RAPID Rail
• Under Construction: 246 km https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2021-08/15/full/1628993605-
4156.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,size=(826,465)

• Planned: 494 km
• Monorail
• Operational: 19.53 km
• Planned: 60.3 km
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_India

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High Speed Rail in India: Planned Projects
• Mumbai – Ahmedabad (508 km)
• Delhi – Lucknow – Varanasi (813 km)
• Varanasi – Patna – Howrah (752 km)
• Delhi – Jaipur – Udaipur – Ahmedabad
(872 km)
• Delhi – Chandigarh – Ludhiana – Jalandhar –
Amritsar (476 km)
• Nagpur – Nasik – Mumbai (767 km)
• Mumbai – Pune – Hyderabad (671 km)
• Chennai – Bengaluru – Mysore (464 km)
Source: https://nhsrcl.in/en/about-us/annual-report

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Source: https://nhsrcl.in/en/about-us/annual-report

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Thank You

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