Pakistan Railway Projects.

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Over 100 locomotives added to Pakistan Railways

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Railways has added 113 locomotives to its fleet after their complete overhauling since 2013, which is ensuring smooth and efficient operations of passengers and freight services.

“Dedicated efforts of Pakistan Railways management and increased spending on the repair and maintenance have ensured availability of operational locomotives from 180 in May, 2013 to 293 at present,” official sources told the local media.

Pakistan Railways has a fleet of 448 diesel electric locomotives, out of which 293 D.E locomotives are operating on railway tracks at present in the country they added.

However, the sources said, during May 2013, only 74 locomotives (41 per cent) were on full complements i.e. six (06) traction motors while remaining were with 2 to 4 traction motors and could not pull the requisite trailing load, resulting in 11 failures per working loco during the year.

Regarding amount incurred on maintenance/repair of DE locomotives, the sources said during last five years 13413.039 million were spent for the purpose.

The year-wise details showed that during 2011-12, an amount of Rs. 1220.684 million was spent on maintenance/repair of DE locomotives, Rs. 2223.875 million during 2012-13, Rs. 2643.806 million during 2013-14, Rs. 4159.057 million during 2014-15 and Rs. 3165.617 were incurred during 2015-16.

The sources said it is evident that the expenditure on maintenance/repair of locomotives substantially increased during last three-year which is reflected in their increased availability and reliability.

 

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Pakistan Railways to Get 300 Trains

Pakistan Railways (PR) has submitted PC-1 to Planning Commission for the procurement of 300 locomotives to fulfill its requirements, it is learnt.

Official sources revealed that the 300 locomotives would be added to the system till 2025. Currently PR has a fleet of 468 locomotives out of which around 311 are operational including 80 locally rehabilitated and 75 procured during last four years while around 157 locomotives are non-operational.

About 55 locomotives are in pipeline from GE Electric (12 are under trail), while an agreement for procuring 20 new locomotives from GE Electric is under process.

PR is facing a locomotives shortage and for this reason the government has earmarked Rs15.77 billion for the procurement / manufacture of 75 locomotive engines under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) 2017-18.

Further Rs 529 million were earmarked for procurement / manufacturing of 58 diesel electric locomotives and Rs 43.678 million for rehabilitation of 27 HGMU-3-class diesel electric locomotives.

Freight train was the main source of income and the government is focusing on increasing the number of freight trains, the official said, adding that earlier 4 freight trains were operating on daily basis; however the number has now gone up to 15 per day. About 25 locomotives were available for freight services in 2015 but now that number has increased to 100. To further increase freight trains and improve trains punctuality, PR needs additional locomotives, sources added.

The freight sector of PR generated around Rs 1.5 billion in 2012-13, which increased to Rs 12 billion in last fiscal year and is expected to touch Rs 15 billion by the end of current fiscal year, sources added.

The government has added 55 US manufactured computerized locomotives of 4000 horsepower in the system recently and considered earning hands of PR. Sources said that PR is planning to procure 20 special engines for passenger train in Bolan section.

PR has submitted another PC-I to Planning Commission for procurement of 250 coaches. Railway Carriage Factory Islamabad (RCFI) has the capacity to produce 120 coaches annually; however this was 150 coaches per annum in 1970.

Railways have currently around 1800 passenger coaches against the requirement of around 1200. However, average age of these coaches have been reduced to the lowest level.

The government has earmarked Rs.4.5 billion in the PSPD 2017-18 for the procurement / manufacturing of 830 high capacity bogie freight wagons and 250 passenger coaches.

PR has set itself a revenue target of Rs 53 billion for the current fiscal year (2017-18). Railways revenue remained Rs 36 billion during 2015-16 and generated around Rs 40 billion by the end of last fiscal year. Railways revenue was Rs 18 billion in 2012-13. Sources attributed the increase in revenue to the availability of locomotives and boost in freight services.

 

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Pakistan Railways to make 1600 Goods Coaches for #CPEC #Pakistan #Railways

 

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Pakistan China agree to doped up the construction of upgradation of Main Line 1 from Peshawar to Karachi.

 

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Pakistan Railways privatize four major Trains

https://t.co/4qF6hQXmiT

Pakistan #Railways plans to procure 300 more Locomotives Recently Pakistan Railways added 55 4500HP locomotive from USA 20 more on order

 

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Under construction Okara Railway Station

 

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Train Approaching Warning System & Train Collision Avoiding System in locomotives are being installed on experimental basis across country.

Sibbi #Harnai Section is being restored after it was closed in 2006 Train operation on restored section will start early 2018 #Balochistan

 

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Narrowal Railway Station Upgradation Underway

 

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The revenue from passenger trains and freight service of #Pakistan Railways has increased by record 55% and 31% respectively.

 

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Good to saw Railway on right Track!
and credit goes to Government.

 

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Okara Railway Station Under Construction

 

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Green Line train fares discounted significantly

For more info click the link below...

https://timesofislamabad.com/green-line-train-fares-discounted-significantly/2017/11/06/

 

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Really need to standardize all station across country

This should be a simple basic design applied across country and all the stations from 1900 british time need to be converted into a modern stations

CPEC can only succeed with well thought of Train / Freight train system across all pakistan not just Lahore and Karachi

How is it possible that British Raj time stations are still active , that is almost 100-150 years ago built stations.

Need new stations and jobs need to be created to make this conversion

Goods/ People when they move in numbers on Train system is how nations make massive gains in economy

 

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New track machine working near Lahore