Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), NE Circle, Manoj Arora conducted the safety inspection of the third newly-constructed electrified line between Gorakhpur Cantt-Kusumbhi railway section of North Eastern Railway (NER), along with Chief Administrative Officer (Construction) of NER SC Srivastava, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) of Varanasi Division (NER) Vineet Kumar Srivastava and other senior NER officers on Monday.
In order to upgrade the passenger facilities and expand the infrastructure for ease of operation on the route, Arora also completed speed trials by his special CRS train successfully, touching a maximum speed of 120 km per hour on this newly-constructed third electrified line. Later, the CRS inspected a major bridge (number 176) between Gorakhpur Junction and Gorakhpur Cantt stations.
In the beginning, Arora inspected the safety records, yard plan, station working rule, platform clearance, point crossing, signalling, fouling mark, panel interlocking, as per the standards of the third new electrified railway line at Gorakhpur Cantt railway station. Then he did a thorough inspection of the battery room, relay room, trailing point etc of the line connecting Gorakhpur Cantt and Kusumbhi railway stations and tested the efficiency of safety work by asking safety related questions to the station master.
Thereafter, the CRS reached curvature numbers 3A and 3B by motor trolley and measured the centripetal acceleration at the indent and overhead traction of the curve. Then Arora reached bridge number 173 and bridge number 175 A and checked their foundations, pillars, approaches, girders, concrete blocks, fittings and maintenance etc. He also conducted a safety inspection of level crossing gate number 115C and tested the safety knowledge of the gate man.
Later, the CRS reached point number 202A of Kusumbhi railway station and did a gauge test of the point and microscopic inspection of coordination with other points. Along with this, he also checked the connectivity of the new third line with the running and siding lines of Kusumbhi station and inspected the new yard plan, station working rule, station panel, points and crossings and newly installed signals.
With the completion of this project, Gorakhpur Cantt station will be developed as a satellite station. The number of lines and platforms will increase and more trains will be able to run from the station. Construction of the third line will result in expansion of line capacity, which will result in movement of more trains, improvement in punctuality of trains and increase in passenger satisfaction.
Along with this, there will also be a reduction in the movement time of goods trains running on this railway section, which will prove useful for traders.
Senior officers who were also present were ADRM (Infra) Rahul Srivastava, Chief Engineers (Construction) SK Kannaujiya and Akhilek Kumar Tripathi, Chief Electrical Design Engineer (Construction) Suresh Kumar, Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineer (Construction) Neelabh Mahesh, Senior Divisional Engineer (Coordination) Rakesh Ranjan, Senior Divisional Operations Manager AP Singh, Senior Divisional Safety Officer Balendra Paul, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (Traction) RN Singh and Senior Divisional Signal and Telecommunication Engineer Yashveer Singh.
