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No. of Rakes No. of wagons Wagons attended
Year loaded attended in sidings per Month

2019-20 (Apr-Mar) 8,258 35,798 2,983

2020-21 (Apr-Mar) 8,109 37,168 3,097

2021-22 (Apr-Oct) 7,187 27,464 3,923

This has resulted in increased availability of wagons for traffic use thus
increased revenue.

iii. Retrofitment of Twin pipe air brake system on wagons: At RDM
freight Depot, retrofitment of twin pipe air brake system has been
done on 1375 wagons and at SNF, retrofitment has been started in
Sep-21 and 40 wagons have been completed till now.

iv. Conversion of 20.3T axle load BLCA/BLCB wagon to 22T axle load
BLCAM/BLCBM wagon: To increase the carrying capacity from
, conversion of
existing 20.3T axle load BLC rakes to 22T axle load BLCM rakes is

being done at SNF depot. Material is supplied by M/s CONCOR
for 315 wagons and up gradation is done departmentally at SNF
during ROH attention on 300 BLC wagons till now.

v. Tyre turning of wheel sets for BLC/BOXN wagons at Pit Wheel lathe of
SC depot: Tyre turning of 829 defective wheel sets of BLC/BOXN

wagons was carried out at Pit wheel lathe of SC coaching depot
during the year 2021-22(Apr Oct). Earlier defective wheels were
being sent from SNF to RDM for tyre turning. This system
improvement has avoided the movement of lorry from SNF to
RDM and back for tyre turning of wheel sets thereby saving lot of
time and money.

vi. : 840 wagons were attended by
giving intense repairs at RDM & BPA freight depots during the
current year 2021-22(Apr Oct).

vii. Quick Watering System at SC station: Quick coach watering

system has been fully automated at Secunderabad Station to
reduce the time taken for filling the water in the coaches. To
achieve this existing pumping system has been replaced with a
New Automatic Coach watering system having 6 nos. of 20 HP
pumps.

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