Tirupur: By December, the goods trains attaining Tirupur Junction is not going to need to halt at platform one, the place passengers trains prevent, since the Salem department of southern railway has hastened the work of connecting items train observe with the main observe at the junction.
The present observe of products train attaining platform one after which shunting into its respective observe halts traffic for about 40 minutes. So final touch of the work will help the railways to avoid wasting time and effort.
"Now, engine of a goods train has to be shifted from the front to the back of the train. Then the bogies would be pulled into the goods train track. The shunting process which takes 40 minutes will keep the platform one occupied. Passenger trains have to wait till the completion of the process," stated a railway legitimate.
A group of technical officials has visited the station and a chart has been ready for executing the work, which was formulated more than a decade in the past. The group integrated officials from overhead equipment, signal and observe maintenance.
"When the work for linking the tracks starts, the goods trains cannot be received at the station. Since it will take a week for completion of the work, the discussion is on to find an alternative. The railways have planned to execute the work in December," the legitimate stated.
The separate observe for items trains in the junction is hooked up with the parking facility for trucks, which eases the transfer of products from boggies to trucks.
Currently, the bogies had been operated in keeping with the demand. On a moderate 15 bogies had been operated in a month which might go more than 30 during height season, which begins from April, the legitimate added.
The present observe of products train attaining platform one after which shunting into its respective observe halts traffic for about 40 minutes. So final touch of the work will help the railways to avoid wasting time and effort.
"Now, engine of a goods train has to be shifted from the front to the back of the train. Then the bogies would be pulled into the goods train track. The shunting process which takes 40 minutes will keep the platform one occupied. Passenger trains have to wait till the completion of the process," stated a railway legitimate.
A group of technical officials has visited the station and a chart has been ready for executing the work, which was formulated more than a decade in the past. The group integrated officials from overhead equipment, signal and observe maintenance.
"When the work for linking the tracks starts, the goods trains cannot be received at the station. Since it will take a week for completion of the work, the discussion is on to find an alternative. The railways have planned to execute the work in December," the legitimate stated.
The separate observe for items trains in the junction is hooked up with the parking facility for trucks, which eases the transfer of products from boggies to trucks.
Currently, the bogies had been operated in keeping with the demand. On a moderate 15 bogies had been operated in a month which might go more than 30 during height season, which begins from April, the legitimate added.
Goods train to skip platform one to ease traffic at Tirupur Jn
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November 18, 2017
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