Indian Railways

Update

10th IHHA Conference 2013

New Delhi

Source : www.mapsofindia.com

IR Network and Resources

64,600 Route Km
56,000 km (87%) Broad Gauge (1676mm)
19,368km (35 % of BG) Double/Multiple Lines
31% of total Route Km Electrified (20,275 Km)
Over 10000 passenger trains and 4000 freight
trains per day
9500 Locomotives(Electric 4300, Diesel5200)
2,50,000 wagons
2 Locomotive Manufacturing Units, 2 Wheel
and Axle Plants and 1 Locomotive Rebuilding
Plant
1.33 Million Employees

IR Features
Operations
Intense Freight-Passenger traffic on
common infrastructure
Freight Traffic - predominantly block rake
movement
Train Km Basis: 64% Passenger , 36%
Freight
High Density Corridor (Golden Quadrilateral
+ Diagonals) 16% of route Km carries 52%
of passenger & 58 % of freight
Electrified Routes (31%) carry 64% GTKM

IR Role
IR carries one third of the total freight
traffic (tonne kilometers) of the country
It carries
70% of all Coal
81% of all Fertilizer
56% of all Iron Ore
46% of all Cement
22% of all Petroleum
20 % of all Container
18% of all Foodgrain

Transportation Statistics
2011-12 & Projections 2016-17
Freight Operations
969 million Tons freight loading
667.6 billion NTKM
Projections for 2016-17
1405 MT
927 billion NTKM
4000+ Freight Trains per day

Passenger Operations
8224 million Originating Passengers
1047 billion PKM
Projections for 2016-17
11,711 million passengers
1760 billion PKM
10,000+ passenger trains per day

Freight Traffic Details

2011-12
Commodit
y

Tonnes Originating

Net Tonne Kms

In Million

%age

In Billion

%age

Coal

455.8

47.0

291.5

43.7

Cement

107.7

11.1

62.0

9.2

Iron ore

104.7

10.8

40.3

6.0

Fertilizers

52.7

5.4

43.8

6.5

Foodgrains

46.4

4.8

57.9

8.6

POL

39.8

4.1

26.1

3.9

Container

38.0

3.9

45.3

6.8

Iron & Steel

35.1

3.6

33.9

5.0

Others

88.8

9.2

66.8

10.0

Total

969.0

667.6

The Next 5 years

Network Augmentation
Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight
Corridors (3300 km)
New Lines 4000 km
Doubling 7653 km
Gauge Conversion 5500 km
Electrification 6500 km
Upgrade speeds on existing lines
Develop High speed Passenger Corridors

The Next 5 years

Rolling Stock Addition
Wagons -1,05,000
Coaches - 24,000
Electric locomotives - 2000
Diesel locomotives 2000
High horsepower locomotives
New locomotive factories for Diesel and
Electric
Development of High capacity wagons

Investment proposed - US$ 100 billion

Towards Heavier and

Longer Freight Trains
Axle load increased progressively from 20.82T to 22.82T
8 tonne per wagon and
500T per train (15% increase in payload)
6 iron ore routes upgraded to 25T axle load.
59 wagons train of 6000T.
7000 km identified for upgradation to 25T by 2016-17.
30 long haul (1+1) trains per day being run (upto 10800T)
Double Stack Container trains are being run from ports of Pipavav,
Mundra (2x9) to Gurgaon (Delhi).
Periodicity of train examination increased to 35 days (Closed Circuit
Rakes) and 15 days (premium) for optimum utilisation of rolling stock.

Planned Developments
in Rolling Stock for Heavy Haul
Track friendly bogies for 25/32.5T axle
load wagons
Wagons - 25T & 32.5T axle load with
improved pay load to tare ratio
High horsepower locomotives 6000 HP
(Diesel), 9000HP, 12000HP (Electric)
Distributed Power Control System for
locomotives

We
s
(14 tern C
99
km orrido
)
r

Dedicated Freight
Corridor

Eastern Corridor (1839

km)

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Improved Technical Features

of DFCs

Double Line Electrified (2x25kV)

Fit for Speeds upto 100 Kmph
Capable for initially 25- tonne axle load
upgradable to 32.5 tonne axle load (Bridges
& formation fit for 32.5 tonne)
Double Stack Container running on Western
DFC
12000 ton trains on Eastern DFC
Long haul trains - 1500 metre loops
Station spacing - 40 km

Improved Technical Features

of DFCs
Ruling gradient 1 in 200 (compensated)
High Horsepower(upto 12000 HP)
locomotives
High Capacity wagons
Automatic Block with Multi-aspect color
light Signaling
GSMR-based communication

Future Dedicated Freight

Corridors

East-West
(KolkataMumbai)

North-South
(Delhi-Chennai)
East Coast
Corridor
(KharagpurVijayawada)
Southern

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