Pakistan Railways: News & Updates

[ghazi52]

RAILWAYS TO START GETTING 55 NEW LOCOMOTIVES BY DEC 2016: DCO RAILWAYS

Pakistan Railways will add 281 new locomotives in phases in its fleet and the first batch of 55 new engines to arrive by December 2016.

An amount of Rs. 14 billion has been earmarked for the purchase of engines in the budget for 2016-17, said Divisional Commercial Officer Pakistan Railway Karachi Nasir Nazir here on Monday. Talking to APP, he said that 55 new engines will be used in freight trains.

Giving details, he said another 26 engines will be purchased in 2017-18 while 35 (4000 horse power) locomotives, 25 (3000 horse power) locomotives and 10 (2000 horse power) locomotives will be obtained in 2018-19 and the remaining engines will be added to the fleet till 2023-24.

Pakistan Railway finally got its First Balance and cleaner Machine.

 

[MKC]

RAILWAYS TO START GETTING 55 NEW LOCOMOTIVES BY DEC 2016: DCO RAILWAYS

Pakistan Railways will add 281 new locomotives in phases in its fleet and the first batch of 55 new engines to arrive by December 2016.

An amount of Rs. 14 billion has been earmarked for the purchase of engines in the budget for 2016-17, said Divisional Commercial Officer Pakistan Railway Karachi Nasir Nazir here on Monday. Talking to APP, he said that 55 new engines will be used in freight trains.

Giving details, he said another 26 engines will be purchased in 2017-18 while 35 (4000 horse power) locomotives, 25 (3000 horse power) locomotives and 10 (2000 horse power) locomotives will be obtained in 2018-19 and the remaining engines will be added to the fleet till 2023-24.

Pakistan Railway finally got its First Balance and cleaner Machine.

What do I understand from this article is, "Pakrail will add 281 locos by 2023-24."
That's really a huge number.

 

[Max Pain]

What do I understand from this article is, "Pakrail will add 281 locos by 2023-24."
That's really a huge number.

its not huge, in the previous era the Railway was almost decimated due to corruption, a lot of trains stopped working and had to be taken out and the railway department showed negative growth.
now they are recovering and making new strides.so for a country the size of Pakistan that not a huge number.

 

[ghazi52]

280 railway hopper wagons arrive at Bin Qasim

LAHORE: The first batch of 30 completely-built up (CBUs), along with 250 completely knock-down (CKD) units, of hopper railway wagons has reached Karachi port.

The trial-run of 30 CBU hopper wagons would be initiated within a couple of days, a meeting presided over by railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafique was informed on Wednesday.

Under an agreement, the railways ministry signed with China’s Jinan Railway Vehicles Equipment Company in January this year, all the 800 hopper wagons, designed to transport coal, would reach Pakistan within the next 12 months.

The Chinese company would supply 200 CBU and 580 CKD hopper wagons to railways.

The CBU wagons would be added to the Pakistan Railways (PR) fleet to transport coal from Port Bin Qasim to power plants, including the adjacent ones at Qadirabad near Sahiwal.

All the 580 CKD wagons would be assembled at the PR’s Mughalpura workshop at Lahore.

The induction of hopper wagons would enable the PR to transport six million tons of coal daily from Port Bin Qasim to the two power projects.

The meeting was informed that bids had been invited for the supply of 55 locomotives of American origin. Having capacity ranging between 4,000 and 4,500 horsepower, these locomotives would increase the train load capacity to 3,400 tons from the present 2,400 tons.

The minister said that by transporting coal from Port Qasim to power plants, the PR would earn additional Rs6 billion annually.

 

[MKC]

its not huge, in the previous era the Railway was almost decimated due to corruption, a lot of trains stopped working and had to be taken out and the railway department showed negative growth.
now they are recovering and making new strides.so for a country the size of Pakistan that not a huge number.

That's what I meant.
Taking IR as an example as Pakrail is 1/15th of IR, so PR must have at least 1000 locomotives on today, so by taking groth in account PR should have much more number of locomotives & their are no plans for it.

 

[Max Pain]

That's what I meant.
Taking IR as an example as Pakrail is 1/15th of IR, so PR must have at least 1000 locomotives on today, so by taking groth in account PR should have much more number of locomotives & their are no plans for it.

true, as of now they made it a profit organization, Id expect the progress to increase in coming years

 

[Ankit Kumar 002]

Pakistan Railways to procure 55 locomotives from US, Senate told
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Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Thursday said Pakistan Railways will procure 55

locomotives from the United States after finalisation of a competitive bidding process.

Speaking in the Senate during Question Hour, the minister said an agreement worth $213.689 million had been signed with a US company to procure these locomotives, adding that these will be delivered by next year.

The minister said a project for rehabilitation of 27 locomotives was under execution at Risalpur factory, adding 15 locomotives had been turned out for train operations while another 12 were under rehabilitation.

He said 60 Chinese locomotives supplied by Dongfang Electric Corp against contract agreement were held up for want of spare parts; therefore, Pakistan Railways had initiated a feasibility study for restoration of these Chinese locomotives which was under process.

He said the Pakistan Railways had initiated special repair of 100 locomotives, adding that this project is currently in procurement phase.

Replying to another question, the minister said Pakistan Railways purchased 63 locomotives from foreign countries since 2008 and at present, 172 locomotives are un-serviceable and defective out of the 440 available with Pakistan Railways.

The minister also said that no bridges were declared dangerous for Railway operations in the country during the last ten years.

He said the design-life of the bridges of Pakistan Railways can vary.

He said though 86 per cent of Railways bridges were more than 100 years old, but regular process of rehabilitation and strengthening of these bridges continues according to prescribed scheduled and at present, all the Pakistan Railways bridges come up to safety standards.

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[Sulman Badshah]

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[Muhammad Omar]

Repaired GMU 30 leaving Khanewal Station for Freight Services

 

[MKC]

Audit report unearths corruption worth Rs 10 billion in Pakistan railways
According to the report, 4147.8 acres of railway land worth Rs 4,147.8 million is no more in possession of the railways.

By: PTI | Lahore | Published:August 14, 2016 7:38 pm

The audit says “unauthorised” reduction of approved scope of work and irregular transfer of material to other projects of railways caused a loss of Rs 1,300 million. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
An internal audit of Pakistan Railways (PR), beleaguered by cumulative losses of over Rs 28 billion and a number of corruption scandals, has pinpointed misappropriation of funds worth Rs 10 billion in its latest report. According to the report, 4147.8 acres of railway land in Dera Ghazi Khan sub-division Multan (Punjab province) worth Rs 4,147.8 million is no more in possession of the railways. “It has been illegally occupied and some part of it sold in connivance with the railways officials,” the report alleged, with fingers being pointed towards Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique.

The audit report also points to another illegality in PR – irregular expenditure on account of 75 DE Locos project worth Rs 3,497.2 million. The audit says “unauthorised” reduction of approved scope of work and irregular transfer of material to other projects of railways caused a loss of Rs 1,300 million.

“Loss of revenue worth Rs 37.9 million due to un-authorisation of railway land besides unjustified payment of Rs 10 million on account of TA/DA has been made,” the report said. In another scandal, the management of four trains – Khushhal Khan Khattak (KKK) Express, Bolan Mail, Hazara Express and Fareed Express – have allegedly been given to the favourites of the minister in violation of the rules.

According to the report, the railways has put the ‘Public Procurement Rules 2004’ on the back burner by amending articles of bid document while entering into an agreement for outsourcing the commercial management of these trains to the “favourite parties”. Saad Rafique, who is on a 20-day holiday trip to Europe, could not be reached for his comments.

PR Chairperson Parveen Agha denied Rafique’s involvement in the corruption scandals. “The PR is trying to improve the state of affairs and will fix the responsibility on the officials involved in corruption,” she said. Pakistan Railways is in deep financial mess and its losses have surpassed Rs 28 billion.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has promised, during his election speeches, to turn around both Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and the PR. However, no visible improvement has been witnessed in both organisations so far. PIA is facing an accumulative loss of over Rs 300 billion while PR is still lagging behind to meet its deficit.

 

[ghazi52]

 

[Furqan Sarwar]

PTI and their reports. Corruption happens every where in the world...

I am happy that atleast they are making improvements unlike the previous Govt. which done nothing neither in Sindh nor in Pakistan. It took 2 years to make a single bridge on road to my office in Karachi and in that similar period many infrastructural projects were completed in Punjab.

So, if anyone is facilitating people by taking kick back then I don't have any issue with that.

 

[Furqan Sarwar]

PAKISTAN RAILWAYS OUTSOURCES FAREED EXPRESS
Sunday, 21 August 2016.

KARACHI: Pakistan Railways has outsourced Fareed Express to the private sector. This was stated by the Divisional Superintendent of Pakistan Railways, Karachi Division, Nisar Ahmed Memon. He inaugurated the renovated Freed Express at the Karachi Railway Station on Sunday evening.

Divisional Commercial Officer (DCO) Nasir Naseer and businessmen Mirza Ikhtiar Baig and Mirza Ishtiaq Baig were also present on the occasion.

The train, with a capacity of 1,000 passengers with 12 AC standard and 14 economy coaches will run between Karachi and Lahore at 07:00 PM daily covering the destination in 24 hour's time.

It will have WiFi, LED and Mineral Water facilities. The fare of AC Standard is Rs. 2,800 and Economy Rs. 1,330.

Memon further stated that so far six trains have been outsourced to private sector which include Shalimar, Khushal Khan Khattak, Bolan Mail and Fareed Express.

He was of the view that for the outsourced trains only the ticketing system has been handed over to the private sector.

 

[Furqan Sarwar]

RAILWAYS TO INTRODUCE MODERN PARKING SITES


Pakistan Railways will develop modern parking sites outside railway stations and vacant railway land near markets to increase revenue for the department.

“These parking places will not only facilitate the passengers but also provide parking facilities to the citizens of the concerned cities.”

Initially, they said the parking sites would be made for two to three years that would be helpful in increasing income for Pakistan Railways.

In this regard Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique had directed the concerned authorities to set up projects of international standard, they added.

The sources said that it was also directed that to upgrade the existing parking system of Pakistan Railways in different railway stations across the country.

They said that a uniform policy would also be evolved for the improvement of commercial and land department so that income of the Pakistan Railways could be increased.

They said that earlier a latest modern parking system is successfully working at Lahore Railway Station under the public private partnership policy.

 

[ghazi52]

Hopper Coaches for Coal Transportation to Sahiwal Coal Power Project. Pakistan Railway will get 800 of Such Hopper Wagons out of which 585 will be made in Mughalpura Lahore

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