Renewal works in progress in a track maintained by the Northeast Frontier Railway. (Photo: NFR)
Guwahati, April 27 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) registered record progress rate in Rail and Sleeper Renewal during the financial year 2021-22, an official release said.
A total of 327.65 km of Rail Renewal works was undertaken in 2021-22 as against 200.29 Km done during 2020-21, indicating an increase of 63.59%, it said.
Thorough Sleeper Renewal works have been done over a length of 112.98 Km in 2021-22, which is also the highest ever progress achieved by NFR, it added. In 2020-21, it was 58.8 Km.
Moreover, the NFR has carried out several more track maintenance works to enhance safety and increase speed of train running, the release said.
Turnout renewals of 145.75 equivalent sets have been done in 2021-22 against last year’s performance of 111 equivalent sets while tamping of 3585 turnouts were done and Track stabilization of 2635.54 Km was completed in 2021-22.
In addition, for smooth operations of trains, 273.44 Km plain tracks have been deep screened in 2021-22 against last year’s performance of 177.68 Km, maintained the release issued by the NFR CPRO.
Plain track tamping of 6842.98 Km have been completed in 2021-22 against target of 6108.40 Km and a total of 5.03 lakhs cum of ballast supply has been done in 2021-22 against 2.96 lakhs cum supplied last year, it said.
A total of 18690.62 kilometre (Km) of track have been tested by USFD (Ultra Sonic Flaw Detection) machine in 2021-22 against last year’s performance of 16105.79 kilometres.
The USFD technique is carried out to detect flaws like cracks and timely removal of defective rails for safety, the release added.
