TYPES OF WATER SUPPLY

TREATED IN RAILWAY
COACHES
MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA UNIVERSITY OF
TECHNOLOGY
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Submit by :
AWADHESH
Roll no: 2017052004
B- Tech Final Year
OBJECTIVE:

 Water availability in coaches is one of the essential passenger requirements however, there are frequent public
complaints regarding non filling up of water due to shortage of water enroute as inadequate filling up.
 The major reasons for these are poor water flow, poor maintenance of hydrants, lack of adequate staff and
shortage of water. Every railways and division have their own system and there is standardization.
METHODOLOGY:

 A no. of coach watering point was visited and observation were taken regarding twice of filling up of coaches
and water discharge etc.
 Some others alternative were also explored such as running of water pipe throughout the length of the train with
interconnectivity hose pipe to facilitate filling up from one end of the train .Another alternatives is to fill up with
the single pipe of 2”-3” which take very huge .Another alternative of interconnectivity of all 4 overhead tank in 4
coach was also used.
 
INTRODUCTION:

 Indian railways is an Indian state owned enterprise, owned and operated by the government of India through the
ministry of railway. It is one of the largest railways network comprising 115000 km. (71000 mi.) of track over a
route of 65436 km. (40660 mi.) & 7172 station in 2013-14. It carries 8425 million passengers annually or more
than 23 million passengers daily & 1050 million ton weight in the year In 2013-14,it had revenue of 1441.67
billion.
 Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 from Bombay to thane. In 1957, the system was
nationalized as one unit, the Indian railways becoming one of the largest networks in the world. It operates both
long distance and suburban rail system on a multi gauge network or broad meter and narrow gauge. It also owns
locomotive and coach production facilities at several places in India and are assigned codes identifying.
 Indian railways is the world 7th largest commercial or utility employees, as for rolling stock it holds 239281
wagons ,62924 passengers coaches 9031 locomotives. The train has 5 digit running number.
DIVISION IN INDIAN RAILWAYS:

 The Indian railway is divided into zones which are further subdivided into divisions each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of 69 divisions.
 Each of divisions is headed by DRM who reports to GM of the zone .A DRM can be appointed from any sources of Indian railway, IAS, IRS for the tenure of 3 years but it can be
exceeded on the recommendation of railways board.

17 Main division in Indian railways:

 1. Central railway-CR Mumbai.

 2. Eastern central railway-ECR Hajipur

 3. East coach railways-ECOR Bhubaneshwar.

 4. Eastern railways-ER Kolkata.

 5. North central railways-NCR Allahabad.

 6. North eastern railways-NER Gorakhpur.

 7. North western railways-NWR Jaipur.

 8. North east frontier-NEF Guwahati.

 9. Northern railways-NR Delhi.

 10. South central-SCR Secunderabad.

 11. South eastern railways-SER Kolkata.

 12. South western-SWR Hubli.

 13. Southern railways-SR Chennai.

 14. South east central-SCER Bilaspur.

 15. West central railways-WCR Jabalpur.

 16. Western railways-WR Mumbai.

 17. Kolkata metro-Metro.

ABOUT GORAKHPUR MECHANICAL WORKSHOP:
 

 Gorakhpur workshop was established in 1903 for repairing and overhauling of MG steam locomotives , coaches
and wagons. Due to gauge conversion from MG to BG , POH activity of 50 BG coaches per months was started
in September 1984. The POH of MG coaches also stopped from January 2002.At present, this workshop is
mainly carrying POH of BG AC and Non-AC coaches in number 180 per month capacity average mentation and
modernization ,project phase 1 (costing Rs. 22.7 crore) and phase-2 (Costing Rs. 18 crore) has been sanctioned
and under progress.
Static and Specification:
 

 
 1. No. of offices-19
 2. No. of supervisors-378
 3. On roll strength-5282
 4. Total area covered-29.8 hectare
 5. Covered area-12.6 hectare
 6. Township area Gorakhpur
 7. Power consumption-208662 Kwh
WATER SUPPLY:

Coach:

 1. ICF 2.LBH
(Integral coach factory ) (Linkee halfman)
 bunch 140 km/hr. 160 km/hr.
 Noise level -100db Noise level-60db

 Dimensions: ICF LBH

 Length with buffer 2296mm 2400mm
 Length window buffer 21336mm 23540mm Width 3245mm3030mm
 Life 25 yr. 30 yr.
Three types of water tanks are provided in LBH coach:

685 litres:

 2 stainless steel water tanks of 685 litre capacity each. These tanks are installed in under frame are fixed with frame and are
secured by safety belts. These tanks constitute the fresh water reserves in the passenger’s coaches. Water kevel indicator has
been provided in these tanks.

30 Litres:

 3 stainless steel water tanks of 30-litre capacity installed are in each lavatory in the roof and are continuously fresh water fed
 by means of pumps. These tanks are installed alone and are fixed with 2 supports which are equipped with belts.

450 Litres:

 One stainless steel water tank of 450-liter capacity. These tanks are installed in under frame, fixed with frames and is secured
by safety belts. This tank installed in the under frame constitute the fresh water reserves for the generator one.
 
HOW WATER TANKS ARE FILLED?

 At most of places 4” diameter water header pipeline is provided along entire length of the platform connected
with the water tank with very few stations having 6” diameter pipe from the main water headed 2” hydrant and
flexible pipes of 32 mm. dia. Are used to fill water in the coaches.

 All important and big stations, specially junctions water feeder line connected with hose pipe are installed
parallel to the track. As soon as the train comes to station, water will be filled in the tank of coaches by staff this
is done manually, coaches built recently have facility to connect water feeds hose directly to the coach tank inlet.
RECOMMENDATIONS:

 1. For enroute watering there should be provisions of dedicated water tank of suitable capacity. The capacity can
be worked out based on availability of municipal /bore well water and number of trains and coaches to be
watered.
 
 2. Minimum distance between centerline to centerline of two adjacent track on the station where new pipe
line/hydrants are to be installed should be 4.9”
 3. The header should be G.I. water pipeline of 6” diameter at a height of 2.3m. from the rail level with supporting

frame at a distance of 6m.and hydrants at a distance of .06m.

The length of TPU pipe will be 1.9m. so that when it hangs does not touch ground and at the same tailed it
covers all the coach’s inlet irrespective of location of the coach.

 4. 3 booster pump of 40hp each should be provided for simultaneous working on 3 lines with connection to
others line to work standby in case of emergency.
INDIAN RAILWAYS WATER POLICY:

 Upgrading water supply system Introduction of automatic valve.

 Mandatory provision of solar water heater.
 Water audit Rain water harvesting .
 Use of water efficient fitting Revering old water bodies on railways land.
THANK YOU