72 Percent Locomotives Of Railways In Functional Condition
Muhammad Irfan Published November 22, 2022 | 02:40 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Nov, 2022 ) :Around 72 percent of diesel-electric locomotives of Pakistan Railways out of a total of 461 are in a functional condition which is not sufficient to run the entire operations of the department.
Railways have 332 locomotives in a running condition out of a total of 461, while 129 (28 percent) diesel-electric locomotives were non-functional, an official in the Ministry of Railways told APP.
Of 129 locomotives around 41 were under normal overhauling schedules and maintenance. The official said the locomotives would be rolled out after routine schedule maintenance turn by turn.
He said that 11 locomotives met with an accident on various dates and locations, and fabrication work and procurement of spares were under process for these locomotives.
The official said that 69 DPU class diesel-electric locomotives were held up for repair and need major modification while eight locomotives were temporarily deleted and under condemnation process due to overage.
To a question, he said that Pakistan Railways was planning to procure as many as 25 diesel-electric locomotives for various shunting points across the country which would help to replace outdated locomotives that to be scrapped very soon.
The project for the procurement and manufacturing of 25 shunting locomotives would be implemented in three years at an estimated cost of Rs.
14 billion, he added.
Currently, he said that only 51 locomotives were being operated�for this service against the 98 shunting points at various railway stations across the country. Additionally, most of the old locomotives would be discarded due to high maintenance costs.
He said the project was aimed at procuring and manufacturing 25 shunting diesel-electric locomotives of 2000-2200 horsepower HP to replace the overage and uneconomical locomotives.
The official said the old locomotives consumed excessive fuel and in most cases, high horsepower locomotives were under-utilized during shunting operations.
He said with the addition of the new locomotives would enhance the capacity of Pakistan Railways by removing the bottlenecks during the shunting of heavy-load freight trains and the placement of freight loads at departure yards in Karachi, Lahore, and other places.
"The role of specially designed shunting locomotives was considered the backbone of train formation and train rake replacement at the platform as well as the removal of train rakes from the platform to the washing line and sick lines," he added.
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