2 Trains from (DMC)DHEMAJI to (RNY)RANGIYA JN

In continuous effort to improve transportation of freight traffic, N. F. Railway has been opening new stations for handling inward and outward goods traffic. Few more railway stations have been opened for freight traffic during December, 2022 enabling easier transportation of various goods by customers. This is expected to benefit transporters in a big way.

To improve customer interface and further augment freight transportation, Jogighopa and Mendipathar station in Meghalaya under Rangiya division has been opened for handling of inward coal traffic w.e.f 05^th December, 2022. Azara station under Rangiya division has been opened for handling of Roll o­n - Roll off traffic w.e.f 06^th December, 2022. This new facility will help transportation of essential items to various north-eastern states like Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura during monsoon season. Trucks loaded with essential items can be transported through railway rakes for unloading in various states where transportation through road becomes difficult. As a result of which common people will be benefited. Moreover, New Bongaigaon station under Rangiya division has also been opened for handling of inward coal traffic w.e.f 27^thDecember, 2022.

The NFR has unloaded 1332 freight carrying trains in December, 2022 as against 1230 in November, 2022. In addition, 10879 rakes of freight trains have been carried from April to December, 2022 as against 9941 in corresponding period of last year showing an improvement of 9.43%.

In a bid to achieve vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister to make use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create a better future for citizens, Indian Railways decided to shift from Schedule based Maintenance regime to Predictive based Maintenance regime to reduce the load o­n maintenance of assets. In line with it, Remote Diagnostic & Predictive Maintenance System (RDPMS) has been installed at Tangla Station under Rangiya Division. The RDPMS is designed for monitoring of signalling gears to predict possible failures.

 The main objective of RDPMS is to prevent the failure of signalling gears by assisting signalling maintenance team to take appropriate maintenance action in advance. All the real time data from signalling equipment are collected through sensors which will play a vital role in overall reliability of the system. RDPMS will ease monitoring, maintaining and predicting the status and health of different assets that are installed in the station. The AI based RDPMS will provide predictive and preventive failure alerts to increase the productivity and reduce the maintenance time and cost. This will result in safer and punctual train operations. In future, such AI based maintenance shall be used for all fixed assets in NFR like bridges, etc.

 Periodicalmaintenanceisatraditionalwayofmaintaining signalling gears as per the fixed roasterschedule.Thisarrangementrequiresregularengagementofmanpowerandassetsreplacementactivitybasedonthecodallife.Itistimeconsuming process, costly affair and rectification time is more asmaintenance team is not available 24x7 at all stations.To improve the reliability and monitoring of system, RDPMS has been introduced.