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Railway Engineering

By: B. P. Devkota
Contents

1. Introduction (4 hr)
2. Basic elements of railway system and their functions
(15 hr)
3. Geometric design of track (12 hr)
4. Track drainage (4 hr)
5. Railway construction, maintenance & operation (4 hr)
6. Railway accidents and disaster management (4 hr)
7. Modernization of railways and high speed rails (2 hr)

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CH-7, Modernization of Railways
and
High Speed Rails

By: B. P. Devkota
Outline

 Incorporating Provisions for Modernization of railways

 High speed ground transportation (HSGT) system
 Tilting trains
 Maglev trains

 Sub-urban rails
 Railway tunnel

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Incorporating Provisions

1. better-designed all-coiled and anti-telescope

coaches with better spring arrangements and
breaking system
– For safe and smoother rail travel
2. Provision of universal couples
– To ensure uniformity in the coupling of coaches
3. Introduction of diesel and electric traction
– In order to haul heavier loads at faster speeds

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Incorporating Provisions

4. Modern signaling techniques

– To enable trains to move at high speeds without
any risk
5. Setting up of MIS
– For monitoring and moving freight traffic in order to
avoid idle time
– To increase productivity
6. Computerization of the train reservation
– To avoid human error and provide better customer
6 service for reservation of berths
Incorporating Provisions

7. Computers and other modern management

techniques
– To design and maintain railway assets more
efficiently and economically
– To ensure efficient Human Resources
Development (HRD) to increase productivity
– To provide better customer service

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High Speed Ground Transportation
System (HSGT):

 High Speed Ground Transportation System

(HSGT):
– Concept developed to meet the challenges of the
increasing demands of mass transportation and
recover the share of traffic from road and other
modes of transport
 HSGT: High Speed Trains
– One that run at over 250 kmph on dedicated track
and at over 200 kmph on upgraded conventional
track (IUC) International Union of Railways
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High Speed Trains: India

 Rajdhani Express
– 130 kmph

 Satabdi Express
– 150 kmph

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Infrastructure Requirements for
High Speed Trains

 Track
 Bridges and Tunnels
 Rolling stock
 Signaling
 Miscellaneous issues

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Tilting Trains

 The train tilts on the curve and gives additional

super-elevation to the passengers
– thus pedestrians experience less cant deficiency
and more comfort.
– Depending up the curvature and other parameters,
 Vehicles with tilting suspension system having
tilting mechanism
– To overcome the limitations of speed on account of
tight curves on mixed traffic routes, where It is not
possible to cant the track
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Tilting Trains

 Can go up to 25% - 40%faster around curve than

conventional train without upsetting the passengers
 Cant defiency up to 275 mm is permitted on SG.
 Used normally speed > 350 kmph

 Tilting Trains_Video

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Maglev Trains: An Introduction

 High speed trains have speed limitations

– contact between rail and wheel
– difficult to maintain with increasing speed
 Maglev trains, a practical proposition using the concept
of linear motor and magnetic levitation
 450-550 kmph
 Speed controlled by varying frequency of power
passing through coils.
 The entry to the carriages is from the top; thus
overhead platform will be built for passengers to board
13 the train Maglev Train_Video
Maglev Trains: An Introduction

 Trains are provided with

– retractable landing wheels and horizontal guide
wheels
– which come into operation whenever the speed
comes down below 200 kmph
– The minimum to achieve levitation, 200 kmph
 Trains are propelled using linear motor power
– Three-phase coils forming the starter of the linear
motor
14 – Installed in the sidewalls of the guideway
Maglev Trains: Technology

 When electric current is passed through

propulsion coils on the ground
– Magnetic field is produced
 The train is propelled forward
– by the attractive forces of opposite pole and
repulsion forces of similar poles
– acting between the coils (on ground) and
superconducting magnet (in the vehicles)
 based on linear motor concept
15 – Maglev Train_Demo_Video
Maglev Trains: Advantages

 Floats 10 mm above the guide way

 Propelled by guide way
 Low maintenance cost
 Low noise
 High speed up to 500 kmph

 Disadvantage:
– high corridor cost
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Super Maglev Trains: Introduction

 2050 A. D.
– New ideas of supersonic train
– Using maglev technology
 Enclosing the magnet train in a tube
– From which air will be evacuated
– i.e. system without aerodynamic resistance
 Power required
– Minimized using super-conducting magnets

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Super Maglev Trains: Introduction

 Vacuum tube and superconductivity

– Tube 50 m below the sea bed or to surface float
– Cost of laying = 4 millions UK Pounds per km
(approx)
 Travel profile (eg: UK to US 2hrs)
– Acceleration time 6 min
– Deceleration time 15 min
– Remainder journey speed 3700 kmph

18 Shanghai Maglev_Video Train 3500 kmph_Video

Sub-urban Rails
Forms of Urban Transport