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  Indian Railways News  / मुंबई-नागपूर दुरांतो 'सबसे तेज'-----मुंबई

मध्य रेल्वेच्या ताफ्यातून ' नॉन स्टॉप ' धावणा - या दुरांतो गाड्या प्रवाशांसाठी जलद आणि आरामदायी पर्याय ठरत असताना या गाड्यांनाही मागे टाकणारी मुंबई-नागपूर दुरांतो येत्या शनिवारी दाखल होत आहे. नवे तंत्रज्ञान , नवी साधने यामुळे वेगाच्या बाबतीत अधिक गतीमान असलेली ही गाडी सुरक्षा आणि सुशोभीकरणाच्या दृष्टीनेही सरस ठरणार आहे.
मुंबई ते नागपूरदरम्यान नॉनस्टॉप धावणाऱ्या या दुरांतो एक्स्प्रेसमध्ये जर्मन तंत्रज्ञानाचा अवलंब करत प्रथमच अंतर्बाह्य स्टेनलेस स्टीलचा वापर करण्यात आला आहे. डब्यांप्रमाणेच एअर सस्पेन्शन्स आणि गाडीखालील अन्य पार्ट्ससाठीही स्टीलचाच वापर करण्यात आला आहे. स्टीलच्या वापरामुळे गाडीचे वजन कमी झाल्याने वेगातही वाढ झाली आहे. ही गाडी १२० किमी प्रति तासाने धावू शकत असल्याने वेळतही बचत होईल. इतर गाड्यांच्या २५ वर्षांच्या आयुष्यापेक्षा या दुरांतोचे आयुष्य किमान ३० वर्षांचे आहे. त्याशिवाय , प्रवासादरम्यान गाडीच्या वेगामुळे बसणारे झटकेही यात कमी होतील , असा दावाही रेल्वेकडून केला जात आहे.
प्रवाशांच्या बसण्याच्या व्यवस्थेच्याबाबतीतही हि गाडी आरामदायी आहे. येथील सीट्स तुलनेने अधिक मोठ्या आहेत. इतर गाड्यांतील ' थ्री एसी टायर ' डब्यांमध्ये ६४ प्रवासी बसू शकतात. मात्र , या नव्या दुरांतोमधील ' थ्री टायर एसी ' मध्ये ७२ प्रवाशांसाठी जागा उपलब्ध झाली आहे. नॉन-एसीतील स्लीपर कोचमध्ये ७८ जागा उपलब्ध असून इतर गाड्यांमध्ये ही क्षमता ७२ प्रवाशांची आहे.
या एक्स्प्रेससाठी नेहमीच्या पद्धतीने रंगकाम न करता विन्येल पेंटिंग तंत्र वापरले गेले आहे. सुमारे १८ महिने टिकू शकणाऱ्या या रंगबिरंगी विन्येलमुळे त्यात वेगळेपणा भासत आहे. इंग्लंडमधून आलेल्या विनेलमुळे रंगकामावरील खर्च आणि वेळही वाचला आहे.

  Indian Railways News  / Doubling between Chandpara and Bangaon

Regulation of some trains due to Traffic and Power Block on Sealdah-Bangaon Section from 13/14.06.2012 to 5/06.07.2012 nights.
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  Indian Railways News  / Off-loading of cement kicks up dust at station

The off-loading of several hundred bags of cement from goods wagons near the main line platform has been causing inconvenience to passengers waiting for long-distance trains at Tambaram railway station for the past one month.Passengers experience irritation to the eyes with children especially suffering. Once or twice a week, goods trains with as many as 42 wagons are shunted at the yard near Tambaram railway station. Each of the goods trains brings in as many as 2,500 tonnes of cement, that are manually transferred to lorries and then transported to godowns in Tambaram and other parts of the city and its suburbs. According to Southern Railway sources, it takes nearly one-and-a-half days to manually transfer the entire lot of the cement bags from the wagons to the lorries and that it requires over 100 lorries to transport the cement from yard. Earlier, the goods trains used to be shunted at the far end of the railway station (line no. 11 or 12). However, for the past one month, while one half of the goods train is shunted on line no. 11, the other half is shunted on line no. 10.Line no. 10 is right next to platform No. 9, where long distance trains, from as far as Nizamuddin and Howrah, and other express and mails to the southern districts of Tamil Nadu halt for a couple of minutes.The off-loading of cement bags kicks up a huge cloud of dust from the wagons and swept by the winds, the dust settles on platform No. 9.It is a great cause of discomfort and irritation to passengers, who reach well in advance to board the long distance trains.“This is unbearable and the Southern Railway can avoid this inconvenience, considering the huge spaces for shunting goods trains in the yards between Tambaram and Tambaram Sanatorium railway stations,” said P. Devendran, a senior citizen who came to see off his relatives at the station on Wednesday evening.According to staff of Southern Railway engaged in cleaning the tracks of plastic, paper and other waste, as long as the goods trains were shunted on line no.11, there was no problem, but the new arrangement had caused inconvenience to everyone.According to them, when the cement was packed in paper bags, problems were less, but when the consignment arrived in plastic bags, the cloud of dust was simply unbearable. They also said there have been instances where groups of passengers waiting at platform no.9 confronted workers – mostly from North India – off-loading the cement bags.By shunting entire goods train on line no.11 as in the past would put a permanent end to the problems, the staff added.

  Indian Railways News  / Nitish Kumar raps railway for delay in completion of rail bridges

Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday alleged that the Railway Ministry was causing inordinate delay in the construction of rail bridges in Bihar which were sanctioned during the NDA regime."There has been inordinate delay in construction of the rail bridges in Bihar which were sanctioned during the NDA rule," Kumar, a former Railway minister himself, said while referring to under-construction rail bridges at Mokama and Bakhtiyarpur on the river Ganga.The state government has sanctioned its share of the cost of the bridges, but the Railways was not coming forth with its share, he said, and expressed wonder about the whereabouts of the profits he had left behind as railway minister."Where have all the profits of the Railways gone," he asked at a function to mark the foundation day of the Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation (BSBCC).He criticised the Centre for ignoring the dilapidated condition of the Mahatma Gandhi bridge on the river Ganga which connects the southern and northern districts of Bihar.He said the Centre rejected various proposals submitted by the state government for repair of the bridge. Referring to the violence and arson by the Ranvir Sena activists in the wake of the murder of the Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh in Bhojpur district on June 1, the chief minister disapproved of the unlawful actions taken by some people to create fissures in the society."I have tried my best to bridge the socio-economic divide among the people and it will not be fair on the part of some people to create obstacles in this endeavour to maintain social amity and communal harmony," Kumar said.

  Indian Railways News  / Train services affected by rail blockade

Train services were affected today following a rail blockade by eight students organisations in Lower Assam's Goalpara district protesting against the kidnapping of two teachers more than a month ago.Students belonging to All Assam Students' Union, All Rabha Students' Union, All Bodo Students' Union, All Assam Koch Rajbongshi Students' Union and Bengali Chatra Federation among others, blocked the tracks at Dudhnoi from 6:30 am to 10:30 am.There was, however, no report of any untoward incident so far, official sources added.Two trains Capital Express from Guwahati to Danapur, and Chilarai Passenger train from Bongaigaon to Haiborgaon were detained near Dudhnoi for several years. The blockade was held to protest against the kidnapping of Kameswar Rabha, headmaster of Hatigaon Belpara LP School, and Sorit Rabha, by suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) from Dawaguri village bordering Meghalaya on May 13 last.