Railways conduct trial run of double stack freight train on Rewari-Madar section of WDFC
27 Dec 2019
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Indian Railways today conducted trial run of the double stack freight train on the newly built Rewari-Madar section of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC), covering a distance of about 306 km (total length is 663 track km).
The trial run was flagged off from New Kishangarh Station.
The Rewari-Madar section is in Haryana (for approximately 79 km in Mahendragarh and Rewari districts) and Rajasthan (for approximately 227 km in Jaipur, Ajmer, Sikar, Nagaur and Alwar districts). This section contains 16 major bridges and viaduct (1 viaduct and 15 major bridges), 270 minor bridges, 4 rail flyovers, 19 road over bridges (11 completed and 8 under construction) and 178 road under bridges eliminating 148 level crossings.
There are 9 newly built DFC stations in this section, six crossing stations (ie, New Dabla, New Bhagega, New Sri Madhopur, New Pachar Malikpur, New Sakun and New Kishangarh) and three junction stations (ie, New Rewari, New Ateli and New Phulera).
DFCCIL will run freight trains at the maximum speed of 100 kmph hour as against the current maximum speed of 75 kmph on Indian Railway tracks whereas the average speed of freight trains will also be increased from existing speed of 26 kmph on Indian Railways lines to 70 kmph on Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC).
Opening of this stretch will benefit various industries in Rewari-Manesar, Narnaul, Phulera and Kishangarh areas of Rajasthan and Haryana. In addition to this, the container depot of CONCOR at Kathwas will also come on DFC map and get advantage in terms of faster throughput.
After having successfully run Track Recording Car of RDSO on 20 and 22 October 2019 and oscillation trials of BOXNS wagons at 110 kmph, trial runs are being conducted on the DFCCIL tracks. These wagons have a Tare weight, ie, own weight of 19.85 ton and a carrying capacity of 80.15 ton. These wagons have 14 per cent more weight carrying capacity than the wagons being currently used on Indian Railways.
The DFCCIL infrastructure is well placed to utilise the carrying capacity of these wagons. Currently, Indian Railways freight trains can carry 61-71 ton weight per wagon at an approximate speed of 60 kmph. The newer, advanced wagons can carry weights up to 81 ton per wagon at an approximate speed of 100 kmph. The newer wagons are safer and modern too.
Trial runs of BLCS-A and BLCS-B wagon prototype have also ensued. These wagons have enhanced axle load of 25 ton and been designed for DFCCIL by RDSO’s wagon department. The design will maximise capacity utilisation and uniform distributed and point loading. These wagons on a long-haul double stack container train on the WDFC can carry 4 times in terms of container units compared to the current traffic on Indian Railways.
