Mangaluru Junction railway station to get electronically operated pumps to fill water in coaches
The Hindu
Under the existing system, when a 20-coach train arrives in MAJN for watering, hoses are fixed one by one to each coach with valves being opened thereafter. Water flows into the coaches from an overhead tank by gravity. As a result, the water pressure is different for each coach, resulting in non-uniform filling of tanks. But, this is about to change.
Complaints of coaches running out of water in long-distance trains operating through Mangaluru Junction Railway Station in Palakkad division of Southern Railway may be a thing of the past as a facility for Quick Watering of Coaches is expected to be commissioned in a couple of months.
The facility, monitored and handled electronically with pre-programming, ensures that water is pumped with equal pressure in all the coaches of a train rake. Senior railway officials expect a reduction in complaints of coach tanks getting partially filled.
Similar coach watering facility are available in Shoranur further south (309 km) and in Madgaon to the north (313 km).
Mangaluru Junction (MAJN), which has three platforms, is a prominent station on the west coast of India. MAJN handles about 85 trains of different kinds — Rajdhani, Doronto, Garib Rath, Superfast, Mail and Express, Humsafar, AC Superfast — with different frequencies — daily, weekly, bi-weekly. On an average, about 40 trains get watered at MAJN.
Under the existing system, when a 20-coach train arrives in MAJN for watering, hoses are fixed one by one to each coach with valves being opened thereafter. Water flows into the coaches from an overhead tank by gravity. As a result, the water pressure is different for each coach, resulting in non-uniform filling of tanks.
Quick watering facility would mean the installation of an electronically controlled pump on every platform. The pump is pre-programmed and has the ability to assess the requirement of each train passing through the station.
For example, a train leaving Madgaon late in the night may not need much water at MAJN compared to a train leaving that station early in the morning.
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