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ARE THERE ANY TRAINS RUN BY PRIVATE COMPANIES OR NON-IR PUBLIC CONCERNS ON IR TRACKS AND/OR WITH IR STOCK?

 When were Shatabdis introduced? Which was the first one?

Know About the Bombay Rajdhani Express ?

Which was the first Rajdhani and when was it introduced?

Are there two Dadar stations? Are there stations shared by two or more zones or divisions?

What’s the difference between Vadodara and Baroda? And other stations that have changed names.

Why are there so many express and long-distance trains to or from obscure locations like Manduadih, Habibganj, etc.?

Why do some stations have the state names or other regional names as suffixes? E.g., Chandrapur (Maharashtra) or Srirampur (Assam)?

 What other suffixes such as ‘Road’ are used for station names in India?

Why are so many railway stations named “[something] Road”?

How many stations does IR have?

What are the different classes of stations?

What about the abbreviations used for suburban services, and other (non-standard) station abbreviations?

Are there continuous rail connections from India to Central Asia or Europe?

 What is the possibility of a rail link to South-East Asia and Singapore?

 Are there rail connections to China or Burma (Myanmar) from the northeast of India?

Are there rail connections to Bhutan?

Are there rail connections to Nepal from India?

Are there rail connections to Bangladesh from India?

Are there any rail connections to Sri Lanka from India?

Where are the oldest rails to be found on IR?

Sometimes the sides of rails appear to be painted. Why is this done?

 What are the small vertical sections of rail that can be seen embedded in the trackworks or a little distance away from the tracks every so often?

What is included in the 3-tier maintenance regime?

Does IR use mechanized means for track laying and maintenance?

What are Rational Formulae? What is Maflin’s Formula? What is the Special Committee Formula?

What is ‘through’ or ‘scattered’ renewal?

What is ‘beater packing’? What is included in the maintenance carried out by gangs commonly seen on the tracks?

How is track maintained?

What is the ‘Raksha Dhaga’? What other methods does IR use to warn of landslides and rockfalls?

What are the nets one sees on rockfaces or hillsides abutting railway lines in some areas?

What tolerances of gauge does IR permit?

What are ‘GeoJute’ and ‘GeoGrids’? How does IR prevent soil erosion in the areas where track is laid?

What sort of sub-ballast, blanket, and subgrade layers are provided in the track formation?

What kinds of ballast does IR use?

What are the typical placement specifications for check rails or guard rails?

What is the relationship between speed, turning radius, and track cant? What are the cant excess / deficiencies specifications for IR tracks?

What dimensions of sleepers does IR use?

What does the notation ‘N+4’ or ‘M+3’, etc., mean in describing sleeper densities?

What sleeper spacings does IR use?

What rail fasteners does IR use?

What are the usual neutral temperatures for continuously welded rail? What equipment does IR use for track destressing?

What kinds of sleepers are used by IR?

What kinds of rail joints does IR use?

Who makes rails for IR?

What types of welding are used for rails?

What are the ‘thick web switches’ (‘thick webbed switches’)?

What are the common lengths of rails?

 What weights and kinds of rails does IR use?

Have any marshalling yards been closed down?

Where are the important marshalling and stabling yards?

What are CONCOR depots and where are they located?

 Where are the important goods sheds and transshipment points of IR?

 Why are there sometimes empty (or water-filled) tankers or other wagons at the end and beginning of rakes carrying petroleum products or other inflammable substances?

 Why does a goods train sometimes move backwards briefly before starting to move ahead from a stop?

What are Crack Trains?

What are Link Trains?

 What are the different types of goods trains?

 What are non-pooled wagons and local traffic wagons?

Where are IR’s wagon interchange points?

What is Wagon Pooling?

 What is the state of intermodal transportation in India? Are roadrailers, road trailers on rails, etc. used in India?

How has IR developed its hauling capacity?

Do double-stacked container trains run on IR?

 How heavy are the freights carried by IR? What are the heaviest freights?

International freight: Are there direct freight trains running between India and neighbouring countries?

What is the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC)?

What are CONTRACK trains? And ConRaj trains? And CARTRAC?

 Who carries container traffic in India?

 How are freight trains numbered or named?

How are freight trains scheduled?

What is ‘Scale R’ or ‘Scale S’, etc., in the context of parcel service?

How are computerized reservations done? What are CONCERT, PRS, IMPRESS, POET, and UTS?

What kinds of tickets have been or are used in India other than the old Edmondson card tickets?

What are/were Edmondson card tickets like in India? Are they still used?

What is the ‘stone throw’ method of communication?

How do ground staff, train crew, signalmen, and others communicate?

What are the telecommunications systems that IR uses?

What is ROSHAN?

What are the ‘Primary’, ‘Secondary’, and ‘Safe to Run’ designations for rolling stock?

How many rakes does a train require?

What is the order of precedence of trains?

How are trains scheduled?

 How is scheduling and control of trains organized in IR?

Which side does traffic run on the tracks in India?

Are there any special requirements for locos to work ghat sections?

How do the drivers in the leading loco(s) and the banker(s) communicate?

What are bankers? Why are bankers used?

What are catch and slip sidings? How are runaway trains managed?

 What happens when the Alarm Chain (Emergency Chain) is pulled in a coach? (ACP, Alarm Chain Pulling)

How is train parting dealt with?

How are runaway vehicles and out-of-control trains dealt with?

What are the train working procedures in case of accidents, derailments, etc.?

When can trains be run without brake vans or without guards?

How are trains run in the fog?

How are trains run when tracks are flooded?

How are communications or signals failures handled?

What are blocks? Line blocks, power blocks, etc.?

 What are speed restrictions and engineering restrictions?

 What is a caution order?

Why do trains sometimes slow down on some sections instead of continuing at the same speed throughout?

What other considerations go into the determination of a loco link?

 What determines where locomotives are changed for a train?

What does it mean when a passenger or freight rake is referred to as a ’15/30′ load, or a ’36 unit’ load?

What else is specified in the working timetable?

How is that trains that are delayed unexpectedly at some point (sometimes) still reach their destinations on time or nearly so?

What’s the ‘normal running time’ of a train on a section of track?

 What’s the ‘minimum running time’ of a train on a section of track?

What’s the ‘maximum permissible speed’ (MPS) of a train?

Why do trains sometimes halt at stations or other points not marked as halts in the published timetables?

What are the booked speed and commercial speed of a train?

Where are locomotive drivers and other crew trained?

How are crew requirements estimated for freight trains?

What’s a Line Box? Or, What is in the large and heavy box that is seen carried into a locomotive on each trip?

What considerations go into the drawing up of a crew link for particular division? What are the working hours / rest hours for loco crew?

What determines when the crew for a loco is changed? What are the hours worked by train crew?

Who is a ‘train superintendent’?

Who is a ‘guard’?

How are drivers assigned to different trains?

What is an ‘A grade’ driver, or a ‘B’ driver, etc.?

What are ‘mixed’/‘composite’ trains?

Why are mail trains so called? What’s the RMS?

What’s a ‘superfast’?

What are ‘Ladies Special’ trains?

What’s a ‘fast’, ‘semi-fast’, or ‘double-fast’ train?

What are ‘Passenger’, ‘Ordinary’, ‘Express’, and ‘Fast Passenger’ trains?

Are there trains that bifurcate or are re-formed en route?

What are ‘slip coaches’ and ‘through coaches’?

What are some videos available on Indian trains?

Where can I get the Thomas Cook timetables?

Where can I get “Trains at a glance”?

Where can I get the “Bradshaw” for Indian Railways?

 What are some books that I can find on or related to Indian Railways?

 What is Project Unigauge

 Do mixed-gauge tracks exist in India?

What gauges are used in India?

Have any marshalling yards been closed down?

Where are the important marshalling and stabling yards?

 What are CONCOR depots and where are they located?

Where are the important goods sheds and transshipment points of IR?

What are CONCOR depots and where are they located?

 How were the 9 older zones created out of the former independent railway networks?

Why do locos sometimes use the rear pantograph and sometimes the front pantograph?

When does the driver have to lower and raise a pantograph on the run?

What happens if the pantograph isn’t lowered when the loco enters the dead zone?

How do the AC-DC locos (WCAM series) switch from one power source to another on the run?

How are DC locos swapped for AC locos at the point where traction power changes from DC to AC?

 Why is the neutral section provided with a dummy (neutral or electrically dead) cable? Why can’t it be a real gap?

How are phase breaks (AC) or power gaps (DC) handled by the locomotives?

How do the new 3-phase AC locos (WAP-5, etc.) work, and how do they compare with the earlier locos?

What’s the history of electric traction in India?

 Freight stock often has the words “Not to be loose shunted” –– what does this mean?

What kinds of couplers are used on IR’s trains?

 What are ‘auto-emergency’ brakes?

What kinds of brake do IR’s locomotives have?

What kinds of brake systems do IR coaches and freight cars have?

Where are IR’s freight wagons manufactured?

What are CONCOR container consists?

What other forms of train working are used on IR other than the block system?

What is a Private Number?

 What is the ‘authority to proceed’?

What is Permissive Block (or Absolute Permissive Block) Signalling?

What is Automatic Block Signalling? (What is the Automatic Block system?)

What’s a Moving Block system?

What is Controlled Manual Block?

 What is Open Block?

What is Lock and Block?

What is a ‘block hut’ or ‘block post’?

What do the terms ‘block station’, and ‘halt station’ mean?

What is an Intermediate Block Section?

WHAT ARE SINGLE LINE BLOCK, TWIN SINGLE LINE BLOCK, ETC.?

 What is the bell code used to communicate between signal cabins for block working?

What happens if lots of trains go in one direction in a section that uses physical tokens, and one station then runs out of tokens?

How is the Neale’s ball token system or other physical token system worked?

 How do the block or token instruments work?

What kinds of block instruments are or were used in India?

What’s a token system or a tokenless system?

 What is the Absolute Block System of train working?

What systems does IR use for control and reporting of signals and related equipment?

What other methods of communication with train crew are used on IR?

Are there any in-cab signalling methods, ATP, etc. used by IR?

 Does IR use automatic track-side hot-spot detectors, trailing equipment detectors, etc.?

Does IR use any other method of Last Vehicle Proving

What kinds of axle counters does IR use?

What kinds of track circuits are used by IR?

 What are Locking Tables and Pull Sheets?

How are points operated?

What are modified non-interlocked (MNI) stations?

How are non-interlocked (NI) stations operated?

What are the different levels or standards of interlocking that IR specifies for stations?

What’s ‘interlocking’?

 What are the last-vehicle indications that IR uses?

 What’s the ‘clearing point’ or ‘fouling point’ or ‘fouling mark’? What is ‘overlap’?

What is ‘isolation’?

 What kinds of signalling and train working systems are in use in India?

 What signals are provided at different kinds of stations?

How is failure of signals guarded against?

What is a ‘fixed signal’?

What does ‘ahead’ or ‘behind’, ‘advanced’ or ‘retarded’, or ‘front’ or ‘rear’ mean when referring to a track or signals?

 Sometimes a signal pole is observed to carry one signal at normal height and another much higher up; what are those? Or, what are Co-acting Signals?

What is the purpose of the white lamps fitted to the rear of signals?

What does it mean when a colour-light signal does not face along the tracks but points away?

What do the rings, bars, etc. found on some signals mean?

How do signals refer to specific lines in the case of diverging and converging routes?

What are running signals and subsidiary signals?

What indications do signals show and what do they mean?

What are the systems of colour-light signalling used by IR?

 What are drooping signals?

What are ‘single-wire’ and ‘double-wire’ signalling?

What are the systems of semaphore signalling used by IR?

What types of signalling systems are used on IR?

 What kinds of signals (semaphores, lamps, etc.) does IR use?

 Why are multiple aspect signalling systems used? What was wrong with the older systems which had two aspects?

How is failure of signals guarded against?

What is a ‘fixed signal’?

What does ‘ahead’ or ‘behind’, ‘advanced’ or ‘retarded’, or ‘front’ or ‘rear’ mean when referring to a track or signals?

Sometimes a signal pole is observed to carry one signal at normal height and another much higher up; what are those? Or, what are Co-acting Signals?

 What is the purpose of the white lamps fitted to the rear of signals?

What does it mean when a colour-light signal does not face along the tracks but points away?

What do the rings, bars, etc. found on some signals mean?

How do signals refer to specific lines in the case of diverging and converging routes?

 What are running signals and subsidiary signals?

What indications do signals show and what do they mean?

 What are the systems of colour-light signalling used by IR?

What are drooping signals?

What are ‘single-wire’ and ‘double-wire’ signalling?

 What are the systems of semaphore signalling used by IR?

 What types of signalling systems are used on IR?

What kinds of signals (semaphores, lamps, etc.) does IR use?

Does IR operate diesel-electric or diesel-hydraulic multiple units of any kind?

What classes of accommodation do EMUs offer?

In what formations do EMU’s run?

 What’s the history of EMU services on IR?

What kinds of electric multiple units does IR operate?

Where are railcars or railbuses operated?

Does IR operate diesel-electric or diesel-hydraulic multiple units of any kind?

What classes of accommodation do EMUs offer?

In what formations do EMU’s run?

What’s the history of EMU services on IR?

What kinds of electric multiple units does IR operate?

What does the term “multiple unit” or “MU” mean, and what is an EMU or DMU?

Does IR operate diesel-electric or diesel-hydraulic multiple units of any kind?

What classes of accommodation do EMUs offer?

 In what formations do EMU’s run?

 What’s the history of EMU services on IR?

Are there any trains run by private companies or non-IR public concerns on IR tracks and/or with IR stock?

Are there any rail connections to Sri Lanka from India?

What weights and kinds of rails does IR use?

What is ‘Scale R’ or ‘Scale S’, etc., in the context of parcel service?

Are there trains that bifurcate or are re-formed en route?

What about other periodicals Year Book of Railway?

What is Project Unigauge

Do mixed-gauge tracks exist in India?

 

 

 

 
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