Railways workshop in india
1. Chittaranjan Locomotive Works. Chittaranjan.
HISTORY :-
In the late 1930s, a committee consisting of M/s Humphries and Shrinivasan was created to consider the economic possibilities of establishing locomotive manufacturing facilities in India. The initial project at Chandmari, east of Kalyani in West Bengal, was found to be unsuitable due to the partition. A new survey led to the present site at Chittaranjan being established, which was approved by the railway board in 1947. A survey of the proposed area began on January 9, 1948; the rocky soil was an advantage in erecting structural foundations, and the undulating terrain solved the problem of drainage for the township. The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) envisioned hydro-electric and thermal power stations in the area, assuring adequate power availability for the project.
The project was launched as Loco Building Works in 1950 to produce 120 average-sized steam locomotives. It also had the capacity to manufacture 50 spare boilers. Production of steam locomotives commenced on January 26, 1950. The first President of India, Rajendra Prasad, dedicated the first steam locomotive to the nation on 1 November 1950, and on the same day, the Loco Building Works was renamed as Chittaranjan Locomotive Works after Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das. The nearby Mihijam Station was also renamed as Chittaranjan.
Steel Foundry at Chittaranjan :-
The technical collaborators in the U.K. for setting up of a Steel Foundry at Chittaranjan to produce steel castings for railway track. The final Draft agreement has been drawn up and sent to Messrs. F. H. Lloyd & Co.. U.K., for acceptance.The production is expected to commence after the completion of construction and installation work which is estimated to take a period of about three years from the date of the signing of the Agreement. The estimated cost of this foundry is Rs. 2.8 crores, approximately.
The terms of the agreement are that we shall pay a sum of £1 lakh to the company with which we are collaborating, they will be responsible for supplying all the designs, supervision, advice in procurement of machinery etc.; if it is purchased in England, they will be responsible for the inspection of the machinery; also generally, they are to help us in putting up the foundry and also to train up the necessary personnel. In the first instance, the installed capacity is going to be 6,000 tons for steel castings for locomotives, and about 1,000 tons for track, from for points and crossings, from austenitic steel castings, which are made of a very hard type of steel. It will be mainly producing heavy and medium size castings im our steam locomotives.
2. Diesel Locomotive Works. Varanasi.
MG Diesel Locomotive-YDM 6200
History:-
Founded in 1961, the DLW rolled out its first locomotive three years later, on January 3, 1964. It manufactures locomotives which are variants based on the original ALCO designs dating to 1960s and the GM EMD designs of the 1990s. DLW has an annual production capacity of 150 locomotives and plans to increase it to 200 based on the current demand.· A flagship production unit of Indian Railways offering complete range of products in its area of operation with annual turnover of over 2124 Crore.
· State of the art Design and Manufacturing facility to manufacture 200 locomotives per annum with wide range of related products viz. DG Sets, Loco components and sub-assemblies.
· Supply of spares required to maintain Diesel Locomotives and DG sets.
· Unbeatable trail-blazing track record in providing cost-effective, eco-friendly and reliable solutions to ever increasing transportation needs for over four decades.
· Fully geared to meet specific transportation needs by putting Price - Value - Technology equation perfectly right.
A large base of delighted customers among many countries viz. Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Angola, to name a few, bearing testimony to product leadership in its category.
Meter gauge diesel locomotive YDM4 6200
Products:-
DLW locomotives have power outputs ranging from 2600 hp to 4000 hp. Currently DLW is producing EMD GT46MAC and EMD GT46PAC locomotives under license from Electro-Motive Diesels (formerly GM-EMD) for Indian Railways.
3. Integral Coach Factory. Chennai.
The Integral Coach Factory is one of the earliest production units of independent India. It was inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru on 2nd October, 1955.
( ICF )
Started in 1952, the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) is a factory for rail coaches located in Perambur, a suburb near Chennai, India. Most of the coaches manufactured are supplied to Indian Railways, but it has also manufactured coaches for railway companies in other countries, including Thailand, Burma, Taiwan, Zambia, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Nigeria, Mozambique and Bangladesh. Recently, ICF exported coaches to Angola. It also has got orders worth of 102 crores from Sri Lanka.
The coach factory provides a number of different coaches primarily for the Indian Railways, primarily first and second class coaches, pantry and kitchen cars, luggage and brake vans, self propelled coaches, electric, diesel and mainline electric multiple units, metro coaches and Diesel Electric Tower Cars (DETC), Accident Relief Medical Vans (ARMV), Inspection Cars (RA), Fuel Test Cars, Track Recording Cars , the latest coaches are Deccan odeysey, and Coaches for MRVC (world class coaches)
The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) is a manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It specializes in the production of rail coaches for the Indian Railways network. ICF was established in 1952 and has since then become one of the major production units of Indian Railways. It is the largest rail coach manufacturer in India and produces a variety of coaches for both passenger and freight trains.
4. Rail Coach Factory. Kapurthala.
Established in 1985, RCF is a coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. It has manufactured more than 30000 passenger coaches of different types including self-propelled passenger vehicles which constitute over 50% of the total population of coaches on Indian Railways.
Some of them are:-
1.'Tejas' high-speed coach (only by RCF Kapurthala for Indian Railway)
2..Non-AC general coach (BG/MG)
3. Non-AC luggage-cum-brake van (BG/MG)
4. Refrigerated parcel van (BG)
5. Accident relief train (BG)
Production:-
This output constitutes over 35% of the total population of coaches on Indian Railways. The Rail Coach Factory (RCF) has produced a record number of coaches in the financial year 2013–14, as it reached the mark of 1701 coaches against installed capacity of 1500 per annum. During the year RCF produced 23 different variants of coaches for high-speed trains like Rajdhani, Shatabdi, double-decker and other trains. The factory in association with DRDE also developed a highly cost-effective indigenous technology for the treatment of biowaste in coaches. Around 2096 bio-toilets have been fitted in 2013–14.
5. Rail Wheel Factory. Bangalore.
Jaffer Sharief, the then Railway Minister, who got this project to Bangalore. It was commissioned in 1984 to manufacture wheels and axles for the Indian Railways. This factory uses cast steel technology in the manufacturing of wheels which utilizes scrap steel collected from Railways' own workshops as raw material.
Genesis of Rail Wheel Factory:-
In early 1970s, Indian Railways were dependent on Tata Iron & Steel Co., and Hindustan Steel, Durgapur for supply of wheels. With Tata’s plant being inadequate for Railways requirements, the Durgapur Wheel & Axle Plant was planned to supplement and fully meet Railways needs. However, supplies from these two units could not meet the requirements of railways and IR continued to depend on imports of wheels, axles and tyres to a great extent. Apart from the drain of foreign exchange, the cost of imports was high and prices were also rising in world markets. At the same time, rolling stock holdings of railways were continuously increasing. Financing of wheel imports and delays in
supplies from abroad adversely effected the wagon production and rolling stock maintenance. It is in this context that Railway Board, in mid-1971 felt the necessity of seriously considering setting up of Wheel & Axle Plant. Subsequently, the then Minister of Railways, Shri K.Hanumanthaiya, announced in his Budget Speech for 1972-73 that: "Government of India has given a fresh impetus to the policy of self-sufficiency after the so-called foreign aid from certain powers stopped or threatened to be stopped.
The Railways want to implement the policy in all earnestness. We propose to start two new projects to manufacture wheels and axles and traction gears. Our requirements of wheels and axles are only met in part by indigenous production and we were purchasing the rest from foreign countries costing Rs.5.8 crores a year. Requirement of wheels and axles is growing. The proposed Plant will be one more
Railway Production Unit and will produce approximately 20,000 wheel-sets and 25,000 loose wheels per year making the Railways virtually self-sufficient".
A study was carried out by the then Dy.CME/NER Shri. H.S.Kapoor, wherein the need for a Wheel and Axle Plant with a capability to manufacture cast wheels, forged axles and assemble wheelsets was confirmed.
Further a detailed study was made considering various aspects like ease of transportation of scrap and raw materials, availability of blooms for forging axles, proximity to industrial areas for supply of requirements of tools and equipment, oxygen and acetylene gas, electrodes and graphite moulds, Electricity tariff etc.,
The first trial wheel was cast on 30th December 1983 and first axle was forged in March 1984. After successful trials, the Plant was formally inaugurated by the then Prime Minister late Smt. Indira Gandhi on 15th September 1984. Starting with annual plant capacity of 56,700 cast wheels and 23,000 forged
axles, RWF has grown to a capacity of 1,90,000 wheels and 70,000 axles and 48,000 wheelsets. RWF’s annual production levels have been in excess of target set by the Railway Board every year since inception. Till date, RWF has manufactured more than 36 lakh wheels, 17 lakh axles and 12 lakh wheelsets.
The Rail Wheel Factory (RFW) is a production unit of Indian Railways, located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It specializes in the manufacture of railway wheels and axles for the Indian Railways network. RFW was established in 1984 and has since then become one of the major production units of Indian Railways. It supplies railway wheels and axles to Indian Railways as well as exports to several countries.
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