MIRZA CHEUKI

North Central Railway

Headquarter

Public Relations

Prayagraj

No. PR/08/2019/Press ReleaseDate: 17.08.2019

GM/NCR CONDUCTS WINDOW TRAILING INSPECTION OF ALLAHABAD-MIRZAPUR SECTION

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry General Manager/North Central Railway, conducted a window trailing inspection from Allahabad to Mirzapur, o­n Saturday, 17^th of August, 2019 by train number 14056 (Brahmaputra Mail). Window-trailing inspection is a specialized inspection in the Indian Railways in which the track and its surrounding installations like signals, OHE, platforms etc are inspected from the rear window of an inspection car attached to a moving train. During the inspection, important parameters like cleanliness and overall condition of stations falling en-route, riding quality of the train-especially o­n points and crossings, improvement in Track Geometry Index (TGI), Condition of level crossing gates en-route etc were observed by the General Manager/North Central Railway.

During inspection Shri Chaudhry said “Bolted type drain covers provided in Allahabad Yards are good in design, it facilitates visibility & cleaning accessibility both, however developmental efforts may be made for use of pressed scrap plastic material for designing similar sort of yard drain covers.”

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry directed the officers to develop widening plans of Niranjan Bridge for two additional lines and portals for this area yard and Over Head Electricals. While passing through Allahabad Chheoki station, he directed to have bifurcation for a public FOB portion o­n New FOB at station. He also desired that Allahabad Chheoki mela passenger enclosure extension plan to connect Platform Number-1 should be executed quickly.

Shri Rajiv Chaudhry considering thehigh TVU (>1 lacs) of level crossing, directed the accompanying officers to review the execution time line for construction of Road Over Bridge at level crossing LC 26E at Meja Road. In order to monitor the real time situation and execution of projects General Manager desired thatdivision should have a running contract for Drone Survey to take care of regular requirement items, like need based Level Crossing area aerial survey , Bridges survey , construction development site survey etc.

He said with the closure of level crossings by construction of Limited Height Subways /Road Under Bridges /Road Over Bridges, we will be missing the vigilant eyes of gatemen, so there will be need to install more Hanging Part Detection System o­n the lines of o­ne functional at Chunar of Allahabad division.

Due to operational reasons a traffic block has been imposed the following are cancelled as detailed below:

Trains Cancelled:

1. Train No. 57501/57502 Nizamabad – Bodhan – Nizamabad Passenger is cancelled from 10th June 2019 to 09th December, 2019.

2. Train No. 57503/57504 Mirzapali – Bodhan – Mirzapali Passenger is cancelled from 10th June 2019 to 09th December, 2019.

Inconvenience caused is regretted.