The renowned Indian Railway Civil Engineer and Railway Track Consultant J.S. Mundrey worked on a new series of educational booklets “KNOW YOUR RAILS”, “KNOW YOUR RAIL FASTENINGS” and “KNOW YOUR TRACK TOOL AND MACHINES”. For certain circumstances his last work “KNOW YOUR TRACK TOOLS AND MACHINES” remained uncompleted. His German friend, Dr. F.A. Wingler, author […]
Author: Chaminda Weerawarna
MATHERAN HILLSTATION IN INDIA
Matheran is a hill station and a municipal council in Karjat Tahsil in the Raigad District of the Indian State of Maharashtra. It is the smallest hill station in India and it is located on the Western Ghats range at an elevation of around 803 m (2,636 feet) above sea level. It is about 90 […]
PROVIDING STEDEF/BÖZBERG/LVT/SONNEVILLE BOOTED BLOCK NON-BALLASTED TRACKS WITH A SECOND LIFE
Swiss SBB and Pandrol Procedures By F.A. Wingler, April 2022 Booted Rail-Support Block technology for Non-Ballasted Tracks (NBT) is of interest in India for the new Katra-Banihal Line of the USBRL Project. The demand has been for a system with straight and as well curved Non-Ballasted Track (NBT), which allows adjusting, repairing and retrofitting of […]
USBRL KASHMIR RAIL LINK PROJECT 2002-2020 – The Gap in the missing Rail Link Katra – Banihal
By Dr. F.A. Wingler, June 2020 with Update September 2022 ith the partition of 1947 India has lost the direct access to the Kashmir Region. 1994, the Railway Minister declared the need for a rail line to Baramulla, well beyond even Srinagar. This Jammu–Baramulla Railway Line had been planned to connect the Kashmir Valley in the Indian union territory of Jammu […]
QUO VADIS? COMPETITION BETWEEN BOLTED,SCREWED CLAMP & DRIVEN SELF-TENSIONING CLIP RAIL FASTENENINGS By F.A Wingler, October 2021
The technical paper deals with the two principal categories of ELASTIC Rail FASTENING or RAIL FIXATION SYSTEMS, which we find on railways around the globe: Bolted or screwed Clamp Systems, where the Clamping or Down-Hold Force is generated by tensioning a Clamp through applying a torque on a quenching screw bolt; so-called “Threaded Clamp Systems”. […]
Road embedded Rail Tracks for City Tram, Light Rail Transit and Metro-Lite
The origin for LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT or “METRO-LITE” is based on electric City Trams, that started worldwide at the end of the last but one century. Light Rail Transit is becoming a further mainstay for urban and suburban public transport in India under the term “METRO-LITE” . In India, we find a City Tram relic […]
Ribbed Base-Plate Rail Fastenings in Pictures By F.A. Wingler, March 2001
The bearing ribbed base-plate for rail fastenings had been designed in Germany by the engineer Döhlert and introduced on German Railway in 1926. It is the most successful base-plate for indirect rail fastenings on wooden-, steel-, concrete-, composite-, polymer sleepers and ballast-less slab tracks around the globe. The KPO fastening from 1926 on wooden sleepers […]
Advanced Rail Fastenings in India By Dr. F. A. Wingler, February 2021
With advanced Turnouts, Metro Rail, Ballast-less Rail Tracks, Regional Rapid Transits and High-Speed Line new impetus has been given to the Indian rail fasting market and applications. The spectrum of advanced rail fastening assemblies has become wider. The promotion of indigenous manufacture of advanced rail fastening components under “Make in India” will give an impetus […]
Characterisation of self-tensioning elastic Rail Clips, ERC, of PANDROL Type By F. A. Wingler, February 2021
Rail Fastening on concrete sleepers with the RDSO designed MARK III Elastic Rail Clip, ERC, has become standard in India. The self-tensioning or self-stressing elastic Pandrol-type rail clips are manufactured by giving a spatial bend to Silicon-Manganese alloy spring-steel rods. Their advantage is the simple installation parallel to the rail. The ERCs are pushed with […]
The World of Urban Transport; a Picture Kaleidoscope – From the Once-Upon-a-Time Bullock-Sulky to the modern Low-Speed Urban and Regional Maglev Transit By F.A. Wingler, January 2021
The Journey of the Transit Kaleidoscope begins in India with a once–upon-a-time privileged Bullock-Sulky personal Transport and ends in Germany and China with the Max Bögl Low-Speed Maglev for Urban Transport. To learn more Download the PDF : THE-WORLD-OF-URBAN-TRANSPORT-A-KALEIDOSCOPE