Northern Railway on Wednesday launched the novel track cleaning machine at New Delhi station, with an aim to tackle the formidable challenge of cleaning of railway tracks in the station areas at major railway stations.
The novel track cleaning machine was launched at New Delhi station by VK Gupta, general manager of Northern Railway and before the launch; he inspected this machine at the station. “We are hoping that the utilisation of this machine would enable the Railways to maintain cleanliness around its premises, tracks, especially in the major stations of Delhi area more efficiently,” Gupta said. He also appreciated the efforts of the team of officers and staff of Delhi Division of Northern Railway for developing this prototype.
According to PRO of Northern Railway, the team of Northern Railway Diesel loco Shed, Shakurbasti at New Delhi, developed the concept for the design of large, heavy duty equipment mounted on a railway wagon. “This equipment has been fabricated by associating M/s TPS Infrastructure limited, New Delhi, and is around 10 times more powerful than a normal blower of a vacuum cleaner, which is used in homes. This machine would clean tracks inclusive of an area of 600 mm. alongside the track and with an extendable hose provided, the machine can clean up to 6 metres,” he added.
He further stated that this machine has a capacity to store 6 MT waste and this machine can be tilted at the earmarked place to empty the waste. The resource for development of this prototype was utilised from the CSR fund of IRCON International ltd.