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1. Presented by
FaisalA
MODULE-III
RAILWAYENGINEERING

2. INTRODUCTION
Amongstthe different modesof
transport, Railwayshavetheir greatest
utilization in the transport oflarge volumes
ofheavyandbulkcommodities and
passengers overlongdistanceswith safety,
comfort and convenience.

3. RAILWAY ENGINEERING
The branch of Civil Engineering which
deals with the design, construction and
maintenance of the railway tracks for safe
and efficient movements of trains is called
Railway Engineering

4. The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that
operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863. The world's first public
railway to use steam locomotives, its first line
connected collieries near Shildon with Stockton-On-Tees and Darlington, and
was officially opened on 27 September 1825. The movement of coal to ships
rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a new
port and town at Middlesbrough. While coal wagons were hauled by steam
locomotives from the start, passengers were carried in coaches drawn by
horses until carriages hauled by steam locomotives were introduced in 1833.

9. The history of rail transport in India began in the mid-nineteenth century. The core
of the pressure for building Railways In India came from London. In 1848, there
was not a single kilometer of railway line in India. The country's first railway, built
by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR), opened in 1853, between
Bombay and Thane. The Great Southern India Railway Co. was founded in
Britain in 1853 and registered in 1859. A British engineer, Robert Maitland
Brereton, was responsible for the expansion of the railways from 1857 onwards.

10. The first railway line in Kerala was commissioned on 12 March 1861
from Beypore to Tirur
The first railway line in
Kerala was commissioned
on 12 March 1861 from
Beypore to Tirur

12. It carries 1.4 crore passengers and 16
lakh tonnes of goods every day.

13. RAILWAY ZONES
● Indian Railways is divided into 17 zones.
● T h e n u m b e r of zones in Indian Railways
increased f r o m six to eight in 1951.
● Each zonal railway is m a d e u p of certain n u m b e r
of divisions, having a headquarter.
● T h e r e are total of sixty-eight divisions.
● Each zone is headed by a general manager, wh o
reports directly to the Railway Board.

15. NAM E ABBR.
DATE
ESTABLISHE
D
ROUTE
(KM) HEADQUARTE R
Southern SR 14 April 1951 5098 Chennai
Central CR 5 N o v e m b e r
1951
3905 M u m b a i
Western W R 5 N o v e m b e r
1951
6182 M u m b a i
Eastern ER 14 April 1952 2414 Kolkata
Northern NR 14 April 1952 6968 Delhi

16. NAM E ABBR.
DATE
ESTABLISHE
D
ROUTE
(KM) HEADQUARTE
R
South
Eastern
SER 1955 2631 Kolkata
Northeast
Frontier
NFR 15 January
1958
3907 Ghuwati
South
Central
SCR 2 October
1966
5951 Secunderabad
Kolkata
Metro
KMRCL 24 October
1984
25 Kolkata
East ECR 1 October 3628 Hajipur

17. NAM E ABBR. DATE
ESTABLISH
ED
ROUTE
(KM)
HEADQUARTE R
East
Coast
ECOR 1April 2 0 0 3 2677 Bhubaneswar
North
Central
NCR 1April 2 0 0 3 3151 Allahabad
South
East
Central
SECR 1April 2 0 0 3 2447 Bilaspur
South
Western
SWR 1April 2 0 0 3 3177 Hubli
West W C R 1April 2 0 0 3 2965 Jabalpur

18. 5.ROLLING STOCK
● T h e t e r m Rolling stock originally referred
to any vehicles that m o v e o n a railway.
● It has since expanded to include the
wheeled vehicles used by business
roadways.
● It usually includes b o th powered,
u n p o w e r ed vehicles, for example
locomotives, passenger coaches, freight
a n d goods wagons.

19. 5.1LOCOMOTIVES
● T h e locomotives of India presently consist of
electric a n d s o me diesel locomotives.
● Steam locomotives are n o longer used in
India, except in heritage trains.
● A locomotive is also called loco or engine.
● In India, locomotives are classified according
to their track gauge, motive power.

20. 5.2 PASSENGER COACHES
● Indian railway has several types of
passenger coaches.
● Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) coaches are
used for suburban traffic in large cities.
● Mainly Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata,
Pune, Hyderabad a n d Bangalore.
● T h e y have second class a n d first class
seating accommodation.

21. 5.3 GOODS WAGONS
● T h e n u m b e r of goods wagons was 205,596
o n 31 March 1951 a n d reached the
m a x i m u m n u m b e r 405,183 o n 31 March
1980 after which it started declining a n d
was 239,321 o n 31 March 2012.
● T h e n u m b e r is far less than the
req uirement a n d the Indian Railways
keeps losing freight traffic to road. Indian
Railways carried 93 million tones of goods
in 1950–51 a n d it increased to 1010 million
tones in 2012–13.