OPTIMISING THE ALL-IMPORTANT WHEEL-RAIL SYSTEM IN INDIA TO ACHIEVE NEARLY ZERO FATAL DERAILMENTS ON RAIL-TRACK ACCOUNT; PART II “ZERO TOLERANCE” is a new “buzzword” used in particular context with “ZERO ACCIDENT VISION” in transport environment and has been recently used by the new Indian Minister of Railways Mr. Piush Goyal, when calling for Innovation in […]
Month: October 2017
OPTIMISING THE ALL-IMPORTANT WHEEL-RAIL SYSTEM, ASSURING NEARLY ZERO DERAILMENTS
The all-important WHEEL-RAIL SYSTEM matters! A Railway with optimised Wheel-Rail System will face NO DERAILMENT-DISASTER, killing and injuring Train-Passengers. European Railways follow the conception of OPTIMISING THE WHEEL-RAIL SYSTEM, and they keep the Wheels of rolling stocks and Rails in sound and healthy condition. With well-maintained Wheels on Modern Railway Tracks the likelihood of Derailments […]
GLOBAL TRENDS IN RAILWAY TRACK TECHNOLOGIES, PART II – under the Light of WHAT MAKES INDIAN RAILWAYS SO UNSAFE AND UNECONOMICAL?
Résumé: To operate a railway safely and to keep it in a healthy condition constant input in maintenance and renewal is needed. India falls short in keeping the Quality of its rail-tracks fit for the traffic load/volume the tracks have to carry. This is one of the underlying factors/conditions for the unsafe and uneconomical operation […]