Indian Railway Permanent Way Manual Pdf' title='Indian Railway Permanent Way Manual Pdf' />North Central Railways Indian Railways Portal 2. All Rights Reserved. This is the Portal of Indian Railways, developed with an objective to enable a. Indian Railways entities. The content in this Portal is the result of a. Indian Railways Entities and Departments Maintained by CRIS, Ministry of Railways, Government of India. Konkan Railway Wikipedia. Shortened form of Konkan Railway Zone. Route map of the Konkan Railway. An express train passing through Konkan. The Konkan Railway abbreviated KR and is a subsidiary zone of the Indian Railways. It is one of the 1. Indian Railways but without any divisional structure unlike other railways zones in India. It is operated by Konkan Railway Corporation limited, headquartered at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. The first passenger train ran on Konkan railway tracks on 2. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Round_timber_rails.jpg/600px-Round_timber_rails.jpg' alt='Indian Railway Permanent Way Manual Pdf' title='Indian Railway Permanent Way Manual Pdf' />March 1. Udupi and Mangalore. During its initial years of operation in the mountainous Konkan region, a spate of accidents prompted Konkan Railway to investigate new technologies. The anti collision devices, the Sky Bus and RORO are a few of the innovations from Konkan Railway. It was the missing link between Mumbai, Maharashtra and Mangalore, Karnataka and the southwestern coastal cities of India. The 7. 41and nyrbsp km 4. Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka states in India. In its great task of mass movement of people and material South Central Railway employs a workforce of 1. INDIAN RAILWAYS PERMANENT WAY MANUAL ADVANCE CORRECTION SLIP No. The existing paras 2442e, 2731, 2753, 276, 5063,716 2 and 1404 of. The first train on the completed track was flagged off on January 2. Republic Day of India. HistoryeditBackgroundedit. The Konkan Railway abbreviated KR and is a subsidiary zone of the Indian Railways. It is one of the 17 zones of the Indian Railways but without any. North Central Railway is known as the Workhorse of Indian Railways which spreads across three divisions viz Allahabad, Jhansi and Agra, It extends from Ghaziabad. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD INDIAN RAILWAYS PERMANENT WAY MANUAL Second Reprint 2004 INTERNET VERSION Embodying all advance. Source North Central Railways Indian Railways Portal CMS Team Last Reviewed on 06112017. A train traversing a long bridge between two hills. A train entering Chiplun Railway Tunnel. Until the Konkan Railway started its operations, the two important port cities Mangaluru and Mumbai were not directly connected by the railway network. People would travel by trains running through inland India via Bengaluru Belagavi Pune route. In the mid twentieth century, people travelling to Mumbai from Mangaluru and adjoining areas would go to Kadur or Birur by bus and then catch a train to Mumbai Bombay then. In the 1. 97. 0s National Highway 1. NOW NH 6. 6 was built to connect these cities by road. Although the brainchild of veteran parliamentarian from Ratnagiri, Nath Pai M. P., national leaders such as Madhu Dandavate and George Fernandes, who hailed from the Konkan played a major role in the conception of Konkan Railway. In 1. 96. 6, a line was constructed between Diva in Mumbai and Panvel in Raigad district. During the tenure of Madhu Dandavate, this was extended up to Roha in 1. At the same time, works on Mangalore Thokur line took impetus. However, the missing link from Roha to Mangaluru still remained. In October 1. 98. Ministry of Railways decided to take a final location engineering cum traffic survey for the west coastal portion from Surathkal to Madgaon a total distance of 5. In March 1. 98. 5, the railways decided to extend the scope of their survey to include the omitted length of the west coast line extending from Madgaon to Roha. The Southern Railway was entrusted with this final location survey. They submitted the project report for this route to the Railway Ministry in 1. Kingdom Hearts I Final Mix English Patch. Konkan Railway. citation neededChallengeseditDrawing up their plans in an office, Mr. Sreedharans team had yet to realise what kind of terrain they would have to battle, and though some surveys had been conducted, there was no data for the entire stretch in Maharashtra a route which involved half the length of the line. Besides, the task was formidable. With a total number of over 2,0. Indian subcontinent at the time. A major challenge in the area was land acquisition as c. But though land related lawsuits are common in the Konkan, when KRCL began persuading people to give up property that had belonged to their families for generations, many gave it up voluntarily, convinced of the importance of the project. This enabled the entire process to be completed in just a year. There were challenges posed by the terrain and the elements. Flash floods, landslides and tunnel collapses affected work at many places on the project. The region was also thickly forested, and construction sites were often plagued by wild animals. Despite these problems, work on the project continued, and an effective system of decentralisation enabled better efficiency. The entire stretch of 7. Mahad, Ratnagiri, Kudal, Panaji, Karwar, Udupi of approximately 1. Chief Engineer. 6 This route mainly passing through 3 major states, Maharashtra, Goa Karnataka, each state accepted to bear few part of financial funding. The authorised share capital was raised in 1. Rs 6. 00 crore to Rs 8. India taking a 5. Maharashtra 2. 2 per cent, Karnataka 1. Kerala 6 per cent and Goa 6 per cent. So far, however, the corporation has only received Rs 7. Contracts for the project were awarded to some of the biggest and most reputed construction firms in India, including Larsen Toubro, Gammon India and AFCONS. To enable quicker construction, several innovative practices were adopted. Piers for major bridges were cast on the riverbanks itself and launched using cranes mounted on pontoons. The technique of incremental launching of bridge spans was used for the first time in India. Since it would take too long to complete the project using locally available tunnelling technology, nine hydraulictunnelling machines were imported from Sweden4 in order to bore through the hard rock of the Sahayadris. The biggest challenge, however, came from the nine tunnels that had to be bored through soft soil. No technology existed anywhere in the world for this purpose and the work had to be carried out through a painstakingly slow manual process. Excavation was almost impossible due to the clayey soil that was saturated with water owing to a high water table in the region. Several times tunnels collapsed immediately after they had been dug, necessitating work to be redone. Nineteen lives and four years were lost while constructing the soft soil tunnels alone. In all, seventy four people perished during the construction of the line. ControversyeditLike most other major projects in India, the Konkan Railway was not without its share of controversies. The biggest one arose in the state of Goa, comprising 1. The opponents to the project stated that the proposed alignment, passing through the coastal regions of the state, would cause destruction of ecology, damage historical sites, and disrupt the lifestyles of people in the densely populated coastal region of the state. In 1. 99. 1, they came together under an umbrella organisation called the Konkan Railway Re Alignment Committee KRRAC and organised protests against the proposed alignment of the railway line. The main points raised by the KRRAC were that the existing alignment would cause flooding in coastal regions, destroy the fertile khazan lands, harm the monuments of Old Goa, cause irreparable damage to the marshes and mangrove swamps along the coastline and estuaries of the Mandovi and Zuari rivers, and result in the large scale displacement of neighbourhoods along the coastal belt through which it passed. The KRRAC proposed an alternative alignment for the line, known as the hinterland alignment, to offset these problems. The hinterland alignment, passing through the relatively unpopulated hinterland of the state, was to be longer by about 2. KRRAC, would significantly minimise the damage caused to the environment. The hinterland alignment was rejected by the Konkan Railway Corporation on the grounds that it would involve substantial diversion of the line, deny rail access to the major towns of the state, and result in severe delays and escalation of costs of construction. By then, the KRRAC had grown into a political movement, backed by the powerful Church and certain political parties.