2. About Liluah workshop
The Railway Carriage and Wagon Workshop was established by East Indian
Railway Company at Howrah and shifted to the present location at Liluah in
1900.
The workshop is spread over an area of 299,000 sq m and has a staff
strength of 9,990.
The workshop is primarily engaged in overhauling of coaches.
Only workshop in india where the RAJDHANI express is overhauled.
3. L shop
This shop deals with the maintenance of various types of wagon.
The wagons are mainly categorized into four types:
1.BLC-BOGIE LOW CONTAINER PLATFORM WAGON
2.BVZI-BREAK VAN FITTED WITH ICF BOGIE
3.BOXN-BOGIE OPEN FITTED WITH AIR BRAKE WAGON
4.BCN-BODY COVERED WAGON
8. LHB SHOP
• This shop deals with the maintenance of coaches of Rajdhani, Duronto.
• produced by Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala, India.
• The coaches are designed for an operating speed up to 160 km/h and could
go up to 200 km/h.
• Indian Railways have decided to replace the conventional air-conditioned and
non-air-conditioned Integral Coach Factory made coaches with the LHB
coaches in all the trains by the end of 2016.
10. M Shop
The following are the basic work done in M
shop(Maintenance)
Primarily overhauling of ICF,BEML and RCF coaches is
done.
Coach replacement and dismantling
Dismantled parts are sent to respective shops for analysis
Basic Parts of a coach - Body and Bogie
Lower portion of the body comprises of Headstock, Outer
Headstock and Inner Headstock
11. M shop(contd.)
I section between Inner Headstock and Outer Headstock
Trough Floor on which the body rests
Body has Bogie Bolster on its two ends to fit into the Bogie
Parts of Bogie Bolster are- Centre Pivot at the centre and side bearers at the two sides
Portion of the body between body bolsters act as simple supported beam
End of the body from the body bolster act as cantilever beam
8 lifting pads at the sides of the body used for overhauling
12. WELDING SHOP
• Welding is the process of joining of two similar metals or dissimilar metals.
13. C SHOP
CORROSION TREATMENT SHOP deals with the corrosive treatment of the railway body parts.
Phosphating treatment:- Degreasing Swirling Derusting Swirling
Phosphating
Powder coating:- Swirling
Sealing
Drying
17. calibration room
• Calibration is process of finding a relationship between two unknown (when
the measurable quantities are not given a particular value for the amount
considered or found a standard for the quantity) quantities.
22. Caustic bath
• Caustic cleaning involves the use of a hot
alkali solution to remove organic
contaminants like dirt, paint, markings,
grease, and oil from the metal surface.
The main component of the caustic bath
is sodium hydroxide, also known as
caustic soda.