Central Railways (CR) has installed “Automatic Bogie Wash Plant” at Matunga Workshop. CR general manager Anil Kumar Lahoti said that the Automatic Bogie Wash Plant is an environment friendly and cost- effective option and another positive step towards automation in train maintenance and conservation of environment.
The recently installed “Automatic Bogie Wash Plant” manufactured, under “Make In India” initiative, is the first of its kind on Indian Railways. The main objective of this is to save water and increase the capacity and quality of washing of undergear parts of train coaches.
In this plant all types of FIAT and ICF bogies can be cleaned in assembled condition with pressurised alkaline solution in an enclosed chamber. The plant helps in minimizing time, water and man power to complete the washing process effectively. Due to the automation, efficiency of the plant and water recycling process, it is expected that this would reduce fresh water consumption more than 60 per cent as compared to manual washing.
The Automatic bogie wash Plant is equipped with a captive Effluent treatment plant (ETP) and the final discharge from the ETP meets the environmental norms. The plant operates automatically upon sensing the movement of bogie through the unit and a bogie is washed within 45 minutes. For which, manually, it took over 1 hour 30 minutes.
A.K. Gupta, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, Central Railway inspected the “Automatic Bogie Wash Plant” at Carriage Workshop Matunga recently. Anjali Sinha, Chief Workshop Manager, Matunga Workshop and Senior Officers were also present on the occasion.
For those unaware, a bogie is a structure underneath a railway vehicle body to which axles and wheels are attached through bearings. Each bogie is a four-wheeled truck that provides the support for the vehicle body and which is used to provide its traction and braking. Each carriage (called a coach) has two bogies.
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