5 Trains from (KTCH)KAITHALKUCHI to (dqg)dhupguri

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SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY

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SER TO RUN o­nE TRIP OF SPECIAL TRAIN BETWEEN SANTRAGACHI AND SILCHAR TO CLEAR STRANDED PASSENGERS

Kolkata, 19^th December, 2019:

With a view to clear stranded passengers, South Eastern Railway has decided to run o­ne trip of Special train between Santragachi and Silchar leaving Santragachi o­n 20.12.19.

08960 Santragachi-Silchar Special leaving Santragachi at 10.30 hrs o­n 20.12.19 (Friday) will reach Silchar at 17.15 hrs o­n Saturday.

The Special train consisting of o­ne AC-2 Tier, four AC-3 Tier, thirteen Sleeper Class and two General Second Class Coaches will have stoppages at Bolpur, Rampurhat, New Farakka, Malda Town, Kishanganj, New Jalpaiguri, Dhupguri, New Coochbehar, New Alipurduar, Kokrajhar, New Bongaigaon, Barpeta Road, Rangiya, Kamakhya, Guwahati, Hojai, Lumding, Maibang, New Haflong and Badarpur stations enroute.

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For the 1^st time, NF Railway has started work of renewal of rails and sleepers by a 100% mechanized method, during night hours. Although mechanized renewal of track assets has been done in the past, this is the first time that the work has been done during the night time.

Dhupguri - Khalaigram block section of Alipurduar division which is single line section having line capacity more than 170% has been selected for doing the work. A very high density of traffic makes it very difficult to block the track for maintenance work during the day hours. That is why night working is being resorted to. The process is a 100% mechanized process of track relaying where about 300 m track is renewed in a single block. An additional Track is laid along the main track for the up and down movement of the machine.

The working at night is very tough and requires a lot of lighting arrangements so that labour and machineries can work smoothly. For the purpose of this 2 nos. of 63KVA, generators were used with 65 Halogen lights in a length of 500 m o­n both sides of track. One Officer, 2 Supervisors from railway side, 3 Supervisors from contractor side and 120 labours were engaged in this block so that the maximum output can be obtained.