Railway Minister Goyal chairs review meet on Freight Convoy Initiative

19-Nov-2018

The Railways Minister Piyush Goyal applauded the effort, put by both the staffs and the senior officers of Railway Board and Zonal Railways on the successful implementation of Freight Convoy Initiative while chairing a review meeting on Monday.

The running of freight trains in a block through Convoy Movement by creating coaching free corridors has been undertaken by the ministry since September of this year for improving freight throughput, especially on the coal-carrying routes. This would further help in improving the mobility of rakes required for coal loading as well as other commodities.

Senior officers are deputed in the control offices to monitor the planning, ordering and running of freight trains in the convoy. Traffic inspectors and loco inspectors are also deputed to foot-plate in the locomotives to ensure no time loss takes place in the clearance of block sections.

“The initiative has been successfully implemented on Korba-Bilaspur-Anupur-New Katni-Agasod/Bina-Jhansi-Kota routes, Ghaziabad-Allahabad-Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction routes and Bilaspur-Jharsuguda-Rourkela sections. The convoy system was also tried on the Asansol-Jhajha-Barauni section (251.65 km) on November 3 and 4, 2018 which was also successful,” the ministry claimed.

It further added that there is huge potential for increasing freight throughput across all Zonal Railways by the introduction of the system for 2 or 3 times a week.

At present, ECR, ER, NCR, SECR, SER and WCR are running freight Convoys in some corridors.

Source: MILLENNIUM POST