Friends of the Rail Forum

Indian Railways have availed the opportunity provided by suspension of passenger services due to pandemic of covid 19 to execut more than 200 long pending maintenance works including yard remodeling, repair and re-girdering of old bridges, doubling and electrification of rail lines and renewal of scissor crossovers.

Indian Railways focused on several long pending overdue maintenance works which required traffic block of long durations. These works were pending for several years and were confronting Railways with severe bottlenecks. They were planned during lockdown period wipe out these maintenance arrears and take up the execution of work without affecting the train service...