Pakistan Railways: News & Updates

[Furqan Sarwar]

 

[ghazi52]

A visiting high level Chinese Railway Delegation was treated to a luncheon train safari by Pakistan Railways.

 

[Introvert]

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.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/business/over-100-locomotives-added-in-pakistan-railways/

 

[Introvert]

Railways revenue jumped to Rs 50 billion

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday chaired a briefing on the Pakistan Railways at the PM office.

The meeting was informed that in 2012-13 total revenue from passenger operations stood at Rs 18.20 billion which had increased almost three times to Rs 50 billion. Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique briefed the prime minister about various measures that were taken during the past four years for the revival of railway.

The prime minister appreciated the efforts made for the revival of the railway and stressed upon the need for adoption of modern practices for improvement of infrastructure and providing quality services to the passengers which should remain top priority of the ministry.

The railways minister said as a result of adoption of a comprehensive business strategy, infrastructure investment, tariff rationalisation, introduction of right mix of service and emphasis on better and transparent management, significant increase of passenger and freight revenues had been achieved.

The ministry was now working on a modernisation and upgradation plan for the railway, he added. Similarly, the revenue from freight operations has also increased from 1.500 billion to Rs 12.420 billion during the same period.

Saad said that the government was committed to transform the organisation into a vibrant and fast improving entity capable of service delivery at international standards. Talking about the future plans, the minister briefed the prime minister about early harvest project under CPEC that included upgradation of existing main line ML-1 (from Peshawar to Karachi) and establishment of a dry port near Havelian.

https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/29/railways-revenue-jumped-to-rs-50-billion/

 

[Introvert]

PAKISTAN RAILWAYS SPENT RS554M FOR REPAIR, RENOVATION OF STATIONS

Rehabilitation work of track, bridges and stations on Sibi-Khost Section is also in progress at a cost of 200 million rupees.

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Pakistan Railways has spent 554 million rupees for repair, renovation and reconstruction of stations in all parts of the country during the last four years.

Rehabilitation work of track, bridges and stations on Sibi-Khost Section is also in progress at a cost of 200 million rupees.

The up-gradation and renovation of Kohat Cantt railway station at an estimated cost of 51.7 million rupees is also in progress.

A PC-I for up-gradation and renovation of stations in Balochistan at a cost of over 243 million rupees and up-gradation of stations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at a cost of over 442 million rupees is also underway.

http://www.radio.gov.pk/01-Sep-2017...rred-rs554m-for-repair-renovation-of-stations

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

NO offense,but PAKISTAN must update its infrastructure in order to be more developed,even it will cost a lot ,that is the experience of CHINA!

Without roads,rails, airport,ports of good condition,how can money and tech as well as people flow from one place to another

 

[HAIDER]

NO offense,but PAKISTAN must update its infrastructure in order to be more developed,even it will cost a lot ,that is the experience of CHINA!

Without roads,rails, airport,ports of good condition,how can money and tech as well as people flow from one place to another

Our private transport mafia is greatest problem for Pak railway.

 

[Chak Bamu]

NO offense,but PAKISTAN must update its infrastructure in order to be more developed,even it will cost a lot ,that is the experience of CHINA!

Without roads,rails, airport,ports of good condition,how can money and tech as well as people flow from one place to another

You would not believe it, but there actually are people in Pakistan who have a problem with infrastructure development. You would find some of them right here on PDF.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

You would not believe it, but there actually are people in Pakistan who have a problem with infrastructure development. You would find some of them right here on PDF.

That explains the advantages of CCP,sometimes chinese poeple's opinion may not be taken into account and this is good for China development(not always of course),
For exemple:most of chinese want China to take down taiwan by force right now,but china gov prefers to do this 10 years or 20 years later when china is even more powerful.....

 

[gangsta_rap]

That explains the advantages of CCP,sometimes chinese poeple's opinion may not be taken into account and this is good for China development(not always of course),
For exemple:most of chinese want China to take down taiwan by force right now,but china gov prefers to do this 10 years or 20 years later when china is even more powerful.....

The thing is that the CCP is geared towards ensuring collective benefit for the entire population and country.
The current system in Pakistan is geared more towards personal benefit of the elite. As you can imagine, this kind of system has its problems...a lot of problems

 

[Nilgiri]

Any good pakistan rail fan channels ppl can recommend on youtube etc?

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

The thing is that the CCP is geared towards ensuring collective benefit for the entire population and country.
The current system in Pakistan is geared more towards personal benefit of the elite. As you can imagine, this kind of system has its problems...a lot of problems

China has its own problems ,this I can assure you but every coin has two sides and I do not think USA's system has no faults,the thing is you must choose the option that delivers most good or least harmto people. The PRC 2rd generation leader DENG Xiaoping once said:"Whether a cat is black or white, when caught the mouse is a good one","Poverty is not socialism".....
Well I think whether it is capitalism or socialism, as long as it can improve the people's living standard,it is a good LISM.

 

[Bashido]

Any good pakistan rail fan channels ppl can recommend on youtube etc?

I am rail enthusiast but unfortunately there is no good channel available on Youtube but random ppl are uploading the videos.
But on Fb you can follow Pakistan Trainz is better than all.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

CPEC has to involved Railway Overhaul in Pakistan by introduction of 1200-1700 Locomotives strictly for freight transportation

New Freight route
Gwadar/Karachi , Karachi - Lahore, Lahore-Peshawar , Peshawar -North Pakistan Areas


Route 1 : Trucks and roads (Via Lahore , Via Peshawar)
Route 2 : Trains (Gawadar/Karachi/Lahore/Peshawar)
Route 3 : Transport Plane for high priority shipments

There is no reason why Pakistani stations look like Shit Pakistan extracts good quality
flooring tiles / marble from it's land , so the quality of the stations is mind boggling

 

[Awan68]

CPEC has to involved Railway Overhaul in Pakistan by introduction of 1200-1700 Locomotives strictly for freight transportation

New Freight route
Gwadar/Karachi , Karachi - Lahore, Lahore-Peshawar , Peshawar -North Pakistan Areas


Route 1 : Trucks and roads (Via Lahore , Via Peshawar)
Route 2 : Trains (Gawadar/Karachi/Lahore/Peshawar)

not locomotives man, its carriage cars for frieght...