Contents

Introdution
 Indian Railway
 N.E. Railway
RailNet
 Introduction
 Objective
 Description Of System
 Special features (Advantage, Limitation, Specialty)
 Fault And Failures
1. Types of failure
2. Rectification process
 Maintenances
 Conclusion

Freight Operations Information System

 Introduction
 Implementation
 FOIS design
 FOIS - Current Status
 FOIS Software
 System Architecture
 FOIS enquiries/Reports
 Importance of Freight traffic
 Diversion of freight traffic
 Goods operations Points
 Discontinuance of less than wagon load
 Booking of Train load Traffic
 Steps taken to encourage train load traffic
 Advantages of FOIS
 INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by

the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth largest railway network in
the world by size, with a route length of 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) and
total track length of 121,407-kilometre (75,439 mi) as of March 2017.
Routes are electrified with 25 kV AC electric traction while thirty three
percent of them are double or multi-tracked.
Indian Railway (IR) runs more than 20,000 passenger trains daily, on
both long-distance and suburban routes, from 7,349 stations across
India. The trains have a five-digit numbering system. Mail or express
trains, the most common types, run at an average speed of 50.6 kilometres
per hour (31.4 mph). In the freight segment, IR runs more than 9,200 trains
daily. The average speed of freight trains is around 24 kilometres per hour
(15 mph).
As of March 2017, IR's rolling stock consisted of 277,987 freight wagons,
70,937 passenger coaches and 11,452 locomotives.IR
owns locomotive and coach-production facilities at several locations in
India. The world's eighth-largest employer, it had 1.308 million employees
as of March 2017.
In the year ending March 2018, IR carried 8.26 billion passengers and
transported 1.16 billion tonnes of freight. In the fiscal year 2017–18, IR is
projected to have revenue of ₹1.874 trillion (US$27 billion), consisting
of ₹1.175 trillion (US$17 billion) in freight revenue and ₹501.25
billion (US$7.3 billion) in passenger revenue, with an operating ratio of
96.0 percent.

Railway zones

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For administrative purposes, Indian Railways is divided into sixteen zones.
No. Name Abbr. Headquarters Date established
1. Northern Railway NR Delhi April 14, 1952
2. North Eastern Railway NER Gorakhpur 1952
3. Northeast Frontier Railway NFR Maligaon(Guwahati) 1958
4. Eastern Railway ER Kolkata April, 1952
5. South Eastern Railway SER Kolkata 1955,
6. South Central Railway SCR Secunderabad October 2, 1966
7. Southern Railway SR Chennai April 14, 1951
8. Central Railway CR Mumbai November 5, 1951
9. Western Railway WR Mumbai November 5, 1951
10. South Western Railway SWR Hubli April 1, 2003
11. North Western Railway NWR Jaipur Oct 1, 2002
12. West Central Railway WCR Jabalpur April 1, 2003
13. North Central Railway NCR Allahabad April 1, 2003
14. South East Central Railway SECR Bilaspur, CG April 1, 2003
15. East Coast Railway ECoR Bhubaneswar April 1, 2003
16. East Central Railway ECR Hajipur Oct 1, 2002
17. Konkan Railway† KR Navi Mumbai Jan 26, 1998

The Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal has announced the creation of new
(18th) railway zone for AndraPradesh, Southern Coast Railway Zone to be
headquartered in Visakhapatnam

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North Eastern Railway
The North Eastern Railway is one of the 18 railway zones in India. The North
Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 by combining two Railway systems
the Oudh and Tirhut Railway and Assam Railway and the Cawnpore-Achnera
Provincial State Railway of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.
The Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway was transferred to the North Eastern Railway on
27 February 1953. NER was bifurcated into two Railway Zones on 15 January 1958,
the North Eastern Railway and the Northeast Frontier Railway and all lines east of
Katihar were transferred to Northeast Frontier Railway.
By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog
Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected
zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway
zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of
putting firecrackers on train tracks to alter train divers running trains on snail's pace.
With these devices, train pilots precisely know in advance, about the location of
signals, level-crossing gates and other such approaching markers.
It is headquartered at Gorakhpur and comprises 3 divisions-

1. Izzatnagar railway division

2. Lucknow NER railway division
3. Varanasi railway division
The administrative head of the zone is called General Manager. The current head of
this zone is Mr. Rajiv Agrawal .
North Eastern Railway is one of the most important transit zones, that is, it is used to
take in Loaded wagons, especially food grains from Northern Railway divisions like
Firozpur, and move it towards Eastern belt and the Northern Frontier region (Seven
Sister States).Thus, it acts as an essential cog in the Food Security of the country .
On 1 October 2002, Samastipur and Sonpur Divisions were transferred to East
Central Railway. The present N. E. Railway (NER), after re-organisation of Railway
Zones in 2002, comprises three Divisions - Varanasi, Lucknow & Izzatnagar. NER
has 3,402.46 route km with 486 stations. NER primarily serves the areas of Uttar
Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Western districts of Bihar.

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 Introduction

In the age of global position system Indian railway is

also adopting some new technology like as RAILNET - Indian Railways’
Intranet. Indian Railways have decided to set up their own Corporate
Wide Information System (CWIS) called RAILNET to provide computer
connectivity between Railway Board with Zonal Railways, Production
Units, Centralized Training Institutes , RDSO, CORE, MTP/Calcutta &
46 major training centers

Indian Railway is constantly looking for new ideas to

simplify and streamline procedures for the convenience. In this
endeavor they have introduced several path breaking technologies on
the Railway system over the years. As we introduce new facilities on
the railway system, we are tempted to take a peek into the past.

With the introduction of this system, the Railways will also benefit
in several ways. These are:
 Keeping pace with the latest technology
 Eliminate the need to move paper documents between different
offices
 Change from ‘PERIODIC REPORTING’ to ‘Information on
Demand’
 Provide Internet Access to Railnet Users
 Connectivity and Communication
 Data Sharing
 Hardware Sharing
 Performance Enhancement and Balancing
 Entertainment
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 Objective

Objective of this project work is to get an idea with the system

installed in zonal railway which enrich the learning process and to get
familiar with construction , installation, maintenance, types, applications
,features and troubleshooting. This helps in building confidence and
assimilation of concepts taught at IRISET into working systems

The main objective of this project is to know how the Railnet work’s,
what are the various equipment use, what are the advantage, what are the
problem & there troubleshooting.

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RAILNET ARRANGEMENT AT HQ GORAKHPUR

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Synchronous Transport Module (STM)-1:
The STM-1 (Synchronous Transport Module level-1) is the SDH ITU-T
fiber optic network transmission standard it is the information structure. It
consists of information payload and overhead bits in block frame
structure, which repeats at every 125 microseconds. The information is
suitably conditioned for serial transmission on the selected media at a
rate, which is synchronized to the network.

· STM followed by an integer, which indicates the level of SDH.

· STM 1 is the first level of SDH bit rates

STM 1 with 155.520 mbps is the basic rate. STM 4 indicates that it
contains 4 STM 1s and each STM 1 is independent in all respects.
Similarly STM 16 means 16 Nos of STM 1s and STM 64 is 64 Nos of
STM 1s.
STM 4 = 155.520 x 4 = 622.080 mbps

In Railnet Gorakhpur “ Tejas TJ 100 CP “ STM – 1 Is in use

Input Voltage Range Normal Operation: -40V to –60V DC

Fuse 6A Slow Blow Glass fuse. Field replaceable

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V LAN

V LAN is configured on layer 3 switch ports in Railnet Gorakhpur .

A virtual LAN, commonly known as a VLAN, is a group of hosts with a

common set of requirements that communicate as if they were attached to
the same broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location. A
VLAN has the same attributes as a physical LAN, but it allows for end
stations to be grouped together even if they are not located on the same
network switch. Network reconfiguration can be done through software
instead of physically relocating devices.

VLANs are created to provide the segmentation services traditionally

provided by routers in LAN configurations. VLANs address issues such
as scalability, security, and network management. Routers in VLAN
topologies provide broadcast filtering, security, address summarization,
and traffic flow management. By definition, switches may not bridge IP
traffic between VLANs as it would violate the integrity of the VLAN
broadcast domain.

This is also useful if someone wants to create multiple Layer 3 networks

on the same Layer 2 switch. For example, if a DHCP server (which will
broadcast its presence) is plugged into a switch it will serve any host on
that switch that is configured to get its IP from a DHCP server. By using
VLANs you can easily split the network up so some hosts won't use that
DHCP server and will obtain link-local addresses, or obtain an address
from a different DHCP server.

The IP provided at VLAN is 172.16.11.1 and subnet is 255.255.255

DNS is 202.138.96.2 and 203.153.41.28

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DSLAM

A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) allows

telephone lines to make faster connections to the Internet. It is a network
device, located in the telephone exchanges of the service providers, that
connects multiple customer Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) to a high-
speed Internet backbone line using multiplexing techniques. By placing
remote DSLAMs at locations remote to the telephone exchange, telephone
companies provide DSL service to locations previously beyond effective
range.

The DSLAM acts like a network switch since its functionality is at Layer
2 of the OSI model. Therefore it cannot re-route traffic between multiple
IP networks, only between ISP devices and end-user connection points.
The DSLAM traffic is switched to a Broadband Remote Access Server
where the end user traffic is then routed across the ISP network to the
Internet. Customer Premises Equipment that interfaces well with the
DSLAM to which it is connected may take advantage of enhanced
telephone voice and data line signaling features and the bandwidth
monitoring and compensation c

In N.E. Railway two numbers of DAS - 3248 DSLAM is in use each

one having 48 ports .

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Mail Server-

The RAILNET mail server in N.E.Railway Gorakhpur runs on operating

system “Windows server 2000” . The RAM is of 512 Mb. The processor
is 3.2 GHz intel zenon. All the communication on optical fiber.

The mail server is HP made and provide an unique email id for

communication .

The unique id is like …..@ner. Railnet.gov.in .

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Router

Router is a Network layer mechanism, either software or hardware,

is using one or more metrics to decide on the best path to use for
transmission of network traffic. Sending packets between networks by
routers is based on the information provided on Network layers.
Repeaters and bridge are simple hardware device capable of
executing specific tasks. Routers are one sophisticated. They have access
to network layer addresses and contain software that enable them to
determine which of several possible paths between those addresses is the
best for a particular transmission. Router operates in the physical, data
link, and network layers of the OSI model.

Subnet Subnet

Application Application

Presentation Presentation

Session Session

Transport Transport

Network Network Network

Data Link Data Link Data Link

Physical Physical Physical

Figure - A Router in the OSI Model

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 Routers relay packets among multiple interconnected networks. They
route packet from one network to any of a number of potential destination
network on an internet.

Internetworking among dissimilar sub networks is achieved by using

router to interconnect the sub networks. Essential function that the router
must perform includes the following.

1. Provide a link between networks.

2. Provides for the routing and delivery of data between processes
on end systems attached to different networks.
3. Provide these functions in such a way as not to require
modification of the networking architecture of any of the attached
sub networks.

In N.E.Railway the router is of 2800 series of Cisco, In which 2800

series router has 24 VAN ports in it 4 ports are 2 mbps and 20 ports are of
64 kbps and 1 port for ISDN (BRI), they can be expandable up to 48
ports.
As long as the cost of each link is know, a router can find the optimal
combination for any transmission several algorithms exist for making
these calculations.

In N.E.Railway the routing protocol is OSPF (Open Shortest Path

Finder).

The IP of Router is - 10.24.2.2

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Switch

In networking, a device responsible for multiple functions such as

filtering, flooding, and sending frames.

It works using the destination address of individual frames. A switch

is a network device capable of forwarding packets directly to the ports
associated with particular network addresses.
A switch is a network device capable of forwarding packets directly
to the ports associated with particular network addresses. Instead of (or in
combination with) hubs, LANs are also coming to rely on device called
switches to transmit messages. These devices operate on the data link
layer of the ISO/OSI reference model-specifically, at the MAC sub-layer.
Unlike hubs, which “broadcast” messages to all ports regardless of the
node to which they are actually addressed, switch rely on internal address
tables to determine where to route packets so that they travel directly from
the sender to the port associated the recipient. Although this distinction
might not sound particular noteworthy on the surface, it is the mean by
which switches con speed up network performance.

Switch

Switch Transmission

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 In N.E. Railway the layer- 3 switch is of Cisco 3750-G, which has 24
10/100 Ethernet port and 4 BASE FX port.

Configuration -

The switches can be deployed as backbone switches, aggregating

10BASE-T,
100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T Ethernet traffic from other network
devices.

 For 10/100 ports, autonegotiates the speed and duplex settings

 For 10/100/1000 ports, autonegotiates the speed and supports only
full-duplex mode
 The Catalyst 3750 switches support stacking. You can stack up to
nine switches in a stack by cabling the StackWise ports. StackWise
ports are not
user-configurable.
 Switches are hot-swappable
 Power redundancy

In N.E. Railway the layer 2 switch is of Cisco 2950 series . It is a 24

port switch . the gateway for SnT department is 10.24.2.2 .
There is only one big difference between layer 2 and layer 3 switches is
that we are able to do routing in intranetworking with Layer 3 swithces
which is not possible to do with layer 2

The Catalyst 2950 Series Intelligent Ethernet Switches, is a fixed-

configuration, stackable switch that provides wire-speed Fast Ethernet .

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Modem

The most familiar type of Data Circuit terminating Equipment (DEC) is

a modem. Anyone who has surfed the internet, logged on to an office
computer from home phone line has used a modem. The external or
internal modem associated with our personal computer is what converts
the digital signal generated by the computer into an analog signal to be
carried by a public accesses phone line. It is also the device that converts
the analog signals received over a phone line into digital signals usable by
the computer.

The term modem is a composite word that refers to the refers to the
functional entities that make up the device a signal modulator and a signal
demodulator. The relationship of the two parts is shown in figure.

Modulator
Demodulator

Modem

Modulator
Demodulator
Modem

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 The term modem is a composite word that refers to the two functional
entities that make up the device a signal modulator and a signal
demodulator. The relationship of the two parts is shown in figure. Modem
stands for modulator/demodulator.
A modulator converts a digital signal into an analog signal. A
demodulator converts an analog signal into a digital signal.

Both modulators and demodulators, however, do use the same

techniques as digital to analog encoders: modulators to further encodes a
signal and demodulators to decode it.

In NER one dial up modems(RAS) is in use .

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LAN Extender and media converter

A LAN extender forwards traffic between LANs transparent to higher

network-layer protocols over distances that far exceed the limitations of
standard Ethernet. A LAN, or Local Area Network, is a high-speed data
network (usually employing Ethernet technology) to connect computer
workstations, printers, servers, and other devices. The Ethernet LAN
typically serves computer users within a single organization to provide
mutual access and file sharing for all the networked computing devices.

LAN Extender is a device that use to extend the local area network
beyond 100 meters through the copper cable.

LAN extender is connected both side of network

In Railnet Gorakhpur Dasan and Atrie made LAN Extender

is in use .

Media converter is use to divert from one physical medium to other like
from CAT 5 to OFC .

In Railnet Gorakhpur Mrotek FCAT01-C and Mrotek FCAT-01 is

in use .

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 Special features

Railnet Gorakhpur use various wayes to provide internet connectivity to

its users ,
various number of users are as –

LAN - 400 users

Broad band on residence – 96 users

Dial up - 96 users .

The IP provided as 172.16.11.1 , in this manner we can provide IP from 2

to 255 .

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Power Supply arrangement

 All equipment in RAILNET are work on 230V. AC supply

 In Railnet Gorakhpur two 5 KVA UPS (made by APC 5000 UX
model) are use to provide power supply . one is main and other
is stand by
 Use distribution board to connect all equipments

Battery : Maintenance Free batteries manufactured by APS Power

Systems Limited are used. They work on Oxygen Recombination
principle. Requirement of water top up is completely eliminated

Earthing

Conventional method of earthing is use in railnet Gorakhpur.

Earthing is maintained at less than 5 ohms .

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 Failures in Railnet

Generally failures in Railnet are

• Power Failure
• Channel Failure
• Hang of equipment
• Server failure
• Local Lead

Power Failure-

Generally in power failure UPS, Generators, and proper supply of main

power.

Channel Failure-

Generally in channel failure loop testing is used .

Hang of equipment-

The equipment like as modem, router, switch, are generally hang. Rest
the equipment.

Local Lead

Check the local lead from the equipment to equipment may be break or
not properly insert.

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 Maintenances

To setup the Railnet following maintenances are required.

 RAILNET room should be dust free.

 There should be proper earthing.
 Humidity of room should be as per requirement.
 Potential between electrical earthing and S&T earth should be 5
volt.
 The power supply should be constant.

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 Conclusion

This project give the idea about the working of RAILNET in

N.E.Railway Zone . What are the equipment and technology are used in
it like as server , router, switch, modems, LAN extender etc.
What are the requirements for the RAILNET setup. Connectivity diagram
of various locations. I have also seen what was various faults and how
they were removed .

As being a trainee Section engineer I cultivate my knowledge during

making of this project and it was a very nice experience during .

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 Freight Operations Information System (FOIS)
Introduction
FOIS is the Management Information System (MIS) used in Indian Railways for its
freight business.

MISs are used for improving efficiency in management and control of operations in
Railways resulting in higher productivity of resources and improving quality of
service to customers. FOIS helps to improve the process of planning, monitoring and
decision making and reduce operating expenses through a more efficient utilization
of rolling stock.

FOIS software comprises Rake Management System (RMS) for handling operating
portion and Terminal Management System (TMS) pertaining to commercial
transactions.

The system has been introduced to keep records of loads/trains, wagons, loco
movements and consignment details etc. by reporting rake formation, load
formation, train arrangements, crew assignment, train consists including
consignment details, train departure, train arrival, forecast, shunting performed en-
route, loco changes, train stabling, correction in rake composition, placement,
releases, removal from sick lines/goods sheds, RR details, loco irregularities and
maintenance activities.

Further it facilitates to make enquiries from the system regarding all the above
activities and furnish real-time, accurate and reliable information about the status of
all the activities.

Implementation
 Software implementation and maintenance is done by CRIS.

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 If MIS requirements are to be met in totality entire IR has to be covered, otherwise
only a truncated picture will be available.
 Certain FOIS subsets presuppose others to be operational before they can be
implemented.
 Loco and wagons based functions presuppose load/train/rake formations to be
operational.
 Goods shed functions expect wagon based functions to be in place before they can
be implemented.
 FOIS/RMS has been designed in a modular structure which could be taken up for
implementation in phased manner.
 COMs of Zonal Railways to ensure timely completion of field implementation
including training of staff, preparing of sites for installation of hardware,
maintenance of channels and datacom equipments.
 CRIS provides specifications for hardware.
 Servers are networked among themselves and to the central server.
 Central server provides management reports at board level and act as repository of
all the global data and also provides global services to maintain referential integrity
of database including master files.
 Star based network topology is used in which every location has at least two paths to
reach CRIS.
 Railway owned digital microwave communication networks, leased lines from
BSNL are used for reliable and fast means of data transfer.

FOIS design
 FOIS is designed in a modular way.
 FOIS is designed taking into account IR’s present and future requirement.

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 Around 80-85% of rakes moves already in rakes. It is assumed that this trend will
continue in future.
 Forecast and pipeline of consignments should be available.
 Movement and forecast of consignments has to be available for the customers also.
 Operations and data capturing will remain control centric for train, rake, loco and
stock management and terminal centric for booking, loading, unloading and delivery
taking into account spatial distribution of activities that needs to be captured.
 RMS and TMS are designed to provide integration with other subsystems as and
when they are developed.
 FOIS gives web access to Railways customers for obtaining information regarding
pipeline of their incoming outgoing rakes and details of Closed Circuit rakes.
 FOIS introduced SMS based Consignment Tracking which facilitates Railway
customers to track consignments using mobile phone. Customer have to send the
SMS with FNR id of consignment.
 FOIS ultimately plan to put in an event driven integrated reporting in real time,
beginning with tendering of Forwarding note to loading and generation of invoice
followed by load consists, train ordering, departure of train, transit, arrival of train at
destination, unloading and delivery.
 Data thus captured is used for generating associated managerial reports(MIS).

FOIS - Current Status

 Rake Management System, the core module of FOIS has been deployed at around
250 locations spread throughout Indian Railways which are networked through
Optical Fibre Cables (OFC).
 Terminal Management System (TMS) has been deployed around 500 locations.
 A pilot project for e-payment of freight for Badarpur Power House , Delhi is
implemented which transfer the freight amount electronically to Railways Account.
 Other modules like Control Office Application (COA), Crew Management System
are under various stages of implementation by CRIS.

FOIS Software
 FOIS is designed in client server technology using middleware and a Relational Data
Base Management System (RDBMS).

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 Application servers at the CRIS are networked and linked to a central database for
global level transactions.
 The central database acts as the repository of all current and historical data.
 The application is interface-ready for web-based services like connectivity to
customers and e-payment gateway interface.
 RMS module is with Graphical User Interface (GUI). IT is totally menu driven and
navigation is through logically linked tasks.
 The application and front end forms for reporting are done in Visual Basic and
resides in the client machine located at the reporting location. Data is stored in the
Central server located at CRIS.

System Architecture
FOIS envisages a 3 tier architecture as below:

 Data (Data Server)

 Business Logic ( Application server)
 User Client

FOIS enquiries/Reports

FOIS will have online information pertaining to basic data. Therefore information
will be available from the system in real time in the form of Reports and Enquiries.

Reports can be programmed to print at specified time at specific places like the
morning operating position. Or they can be programmed to be printed automatically
in select yards on the route of the train.

Importance of Freight traffic

 Freight traffic is the major source of revenue for Indian Railways.
 Only one-third of the 13000 trains running daily on IR are freight trains, but it
accounts 65% of total revenue of IR.
 Railway Freight traffic is vital for economic and industrial progress of the country.

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 Raw materials from producing centers to factories and finished/semi-finished
products from factories to consumption areas or ports for export has to be
carried. Eg: Coal reserves from Bengal and Bihar has to be transported to thermal
and steel plants all over the country.

Share of traffic carried over rail/road

Freight Passenger

Rail Road Rail Road

1950-51 89% 11% 80% 20%

2000-01 36% 64% 20% 80%

Goods Traffic on IR for the Year 2017-18

 Net tone Kilometers - 626,473
 Originating Tonnage - 926.4 (in Millions)

Diversion of freight traffic

 Taking into overall cost of transport road transport is generally economical only for
short hauls only.

Railways plays dominant role for meeting transport requirement for the following
reasons:

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 More energy efficient: Using same quantity of fuel Railways carry more than 6
times the traffic that could be carried by road. Thus it reduces the burden on foreign
exchange.
 Less pollution : Railways are more environment friendly especially for electric
traction.
 Better Land use

Goods operations Points

 Loading/unloading points viz, station platforms, goods sheds and sidings which
maybe private, assisted or railways owned.
 Sections through which various kinds of goods trains are run to carry the traffic from
originating to destination points.
 Intermediate marshalling yards where goods trains are received, reformed and
dispatched.
 Transhipment points where goods are transshipped from one gauge to another.
 Control organization which is responsible for planning, organizing and monitoring
of goods operation as well as passenger traffic.

Units of Loading
 Smalls traffic ie, less than wagon load.
 Wagon load.
 Full train load
 Containers

Discontinuance of less than wagon load

IR discontinued booking of less than wagon load as it was neither convenient nor
economical for following reasons.

 Wagon space is poorly utilized as waiting for full wagon delays the dispatch of
consignment.

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 Repeated handling of goods leading to claims.
 Cumbersome documentation.
 Van Goods trains which carry the consignments may have poor average speeds due
to detention at stations for loading/unloading or shunting and hence poor utilization
of Rolling stock and Line Capacity.

Booking of Train load Traffic

 Rail Transport is most cost effective where traffic is moved in point to point train
loads without the need of shunting/sorting enroute.
 Major commodities forming 90% of goods traffic are amenable to be moved in train
loads.

Steps taken to encourage train load traffic

 Quoting reduced rates for train loads.
 Encouraging collieries and major users of coal like thermal power houses to have
their sidings suitably strengthened/ extended to ensure full rake loading.
 To set up coal dumps at nodal points for small consumers.
 To encourage steel authorities to set up steel stock yards so that full train loads of
iron and steel products could move from steel plants to stock yards.
 Encourage oil companies to install full rake sidings at loading/unloading points for
POL trains.
 Ensure Jumpo rakes consisting of covered Roller Bearing CBC wagons are provided
for laoding and transport of commodities such as foodgrains, cement and fertilizers.

Advantages of FOIS
 FOIS uses Information Technology as an aid to decision making and ultimately
improving the freight services.
 A management tool to optimize utilization of costly assets and resources by
improving distribution of rakes /wagons and locos and scheduling and routing traffic
in a cost effective manner.

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 Provides continuous cargo visibility and instant access to information regarding
status of consignments in transit to freight customers.
 Global tracking of consignments in trains and wagons.
 Timely planning and just in time inventory management.
 Facilitate acceptance, billing, cash accountal of freight traffic from identified nodal
customer centers which may not be handling terminals.
 Simplified logistic management by extending such facilities to customer premises.
 Total logistic system in future.
 Accurate and uniform operating information regarding loco, wagon, yard, terminal
etc. will be available to operating officers and other managers.
 Distribution of empties can be done, Congestions can be avoided.
 No missing / unconnected wagons.
 Maintenance record of loco / wagons available.
 Accurate statistics regarding loading / unloading earnings and freight will be
promptly available.
 Long term planning for increasing section / line capacity can be done.
 Train/stock/wagon interchange position.
 Yard detention/delay on the run information.
 Stock /loco holding.
 Just in time inventory is available and hence no case of unconnected/missing
wagons.
 Manual process/maintenance of registers dispensed.
 Quick settlement of claims.
 Arrival/departure/placement, release info.
 Indents registered/pending, RR preparation, Goods shed earnings.

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