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Railway Engineering

By Prof. Rajat Rastogi   |   IIT Roorkee
Learners enrolled: 2948   |  Exam registration: 629
ABOUT THE COURSE:
The course on railway engineering provides complete information to the students of various aspects related to railway tracks, operation, maintenance, and control. Tracks components are discussed at the start with emphasis on Indian Railways, Track operations are discussed in the form of alignment, safe speeds of trains on the tracks, changeover between tracks and related designs. Train control systems with emphasis on safety on tracks is further discussed. Towards the end an idea on High Speed Rails is given as this is going to be the future in India also.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG and Faculty

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Railways Consulting organizations
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Civil Engineering
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 26 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week-1: Introduction, Permanent way, gauges, wheels and Axles, Locomotives and Wagons.

Week-2:  Rail section, Rail length, Tests and Failures, sleepers, sleeper density, spacing, type of sleepers, Ballast.

Week-3: Traction and Resistances, Hauling capacity and Tractive effort, Track modulus and Relief of stress.

Week-4: Track stresses – vertical, lateral, longitudinal, Stresses in Rails, Sleepers, and Ballast, Formation, Joints in Rails – Types and Requirements.

Week-5: Joints – Insulated joint, Alumino-Thermit Weld, Flash-Butt weld, Short Welded Rail, Creep in Rails, Buckling of Rails.

Week-6: Rail Failures, Rail Wears – Causes, Measurement, Types, Precautions and remedial measures, Permissible wear.

Week-7: Long Welded Rails, Continuous Welded Rails, Fastenings for Rails-to-Rail, Fastenings for Rail-to-Sleeper, Track Alignment – Need, Requirements, Selection factors.

Week-8: Speed on track – Safe, Permissible, Equilibrium, Cant excess, cant deficiency, Transition curves, Widening at curve, clearances, Gradients.

Week-9: Widening at curve, clearances, Gradients, Vertical curves; Realignment of curves; Turnouts – Types and Design, Crossings - Types and Design.

Week-10: Track Junctions and Design; Signals – Classification and functions, Types of signals, Signal placements; Interlocking of tracks – Standards, Principles, Isolation.

Week-11: Interlocking on tracks: Key, Mechanical, Route Reply, Electrical, Electronic interlocking; Train Control Systems: Block and non-block systems; Railway stations – Types, Yards, Level crossings.

Week-12: Maintenance of Tracks: Criteria, Mechanical, Measured Showal Packing, Direct Track maintenance, maintenance equipment; Drainage of Tracks – surface and subsurface, At stations, in yards, High Speed Rails – Technologies and Requirements.

Books and references

1. Basic Concepts of Signal Engineering, (ST-15), https://ecr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris//uploads/files/1603174622179.pdf 
2. Basic of Track Structure and Components, Indian Railways Center for Advanced Maintenance Technologies, IRCAMT, Maharajpur, Gwalior, 2023
3. Basics of Railway Signal Engineering by G V Rao, ITD-2, Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, IRISET, Secundrabad
4. Handbook on welding techniques, Indian Railways Center for Advanced maintenance Technologies, IRCAMT, Maharajpur, Gwalior
5. India’s Bullet Train Ride- The Journey so far, National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited, 2023
6. Indian Railway Maintenance Manual (Works)
7. Indian Railway Standard Specification for 10 mm thick Composite Grooved Rubber Sole Plates for placing beneath rails, M&C Directorate, RDSO, Lucknow, 2020
8. Indian Railway Standard Specification for 6 mm thick Nylon Cord Reinforced grooved Rubber Sole Plate for placing beneath rails at turnouts, M&C Directorate, RDSO, Lucknow, 2020
9. Indian Railways Permanent Way Manual, Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune, 2020
10. Indian Railways Signal Engineering Manual Appendix-I (Maintenance Schedules), Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, IRISET, Secundrabad, 2021
11. Indian Railways Signal Engineering Manual, Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, IRISET, Secundrabad, 2021
12. Indian Railways Telecom Manual
13. Indian Railways Track Machine Manual
14. Indian Railway Tracks by M M Agarwal
15. Indian Railways Works Manual
16. IRS: T-1-2021, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Fish Plates and Fish Plate Bars, RDSO, Lucknow
17. IRS: T-23-2021, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Track Bolts and Nuts, RDSO, Lucknow
18. IRS: T-31-2-21, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Elastic Rail Clips, RDSO, Lucknow
19. IRS: T-39-2021, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Pre-tensioned Pre-stressed Concrete Sleepers for Broad gauge, meter gauge and Narrow gauge, RDSO, Lucknow
20. IRS: T-44-2020, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Glass Filled Nylon-66 Insulating Liners, RDSO, Lucknow
21. IRS: T-47-2020, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Grooved Rubber Sole Plates (6 mm thick) for placing beneath rails, Track Design Directorate, RDSO, Lucknow
22. IRS: T-55-2022, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Rubber pads for placing beneath rails, Track Design Directorate, RDSO, Lucknow
23. IRS: T-56-2020, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Metal Liners for use with Elastic Rail Clips, RDSO, Lucknow
24. IRS: T-59-2021, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Composite Sleepers, RDSO, Lucknow
25. IRST-12-2009, Indian Railway Standard Specification for Flat Bottom Rails, RDSO, Lucknow
26. Long Welded Rails, Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune, 2023
27. Maintenance Handbook on Route Relay Interlocking (Metal to Metal Relays), Maharajpur, Gwalior, 2016
28. Manual for Flash Butt Welding of Rails, RDSO, Lucknow
29. Mechanised Track Laying, Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune, 2021
30. New Design of LHB Coaches, Revised LHB Maintenance Manual, Indian Railways Center for Advanced maintenance Technologies, IRCAMT, Maharajpur, Gwalior, 2023
31. Permanent way Requirements for S&T fittings of Points and Crossings, Indian Railways Center for Advanced maintenance Technologies, IRCAMT, Maharajpur, Gwalior
32. Policy Messages for Planning and Implementing High-Speed Rail in Asia, Asian Development Institute 
33. Railway Engineering by Satish Chandra and M M Agarwal
34. Railway Engineering by Subhash C Saxena and Satyapal Arora
35. Railway Works Engineering by M M Agarwal
37. S-12, Relay Interlocking (Metal – Carbon Relays) (British), Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, IRISET, Secundrabad, 2014
38. S2 – Principles of interlocking Electro-Mechanical Interlocking circuits, Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, IRISET, Secundrabad (2022)
39. Specifications for Railway Formation, Geo-Technical Engineering Directorate, RDSO, Lucknow, 2018
40. Track Monitoring, Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune, 2013

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajat Rastogi

IIT Roorkee
Prof. Rajat Rastogi is a Professor in Transportation Engineering Group of Civil Engineering Department at IIT Roorkee. He has a teaching experience of 33 years. He has taught transportation related curses like Transportation Engineering-I and II, Highway Engineering, Geometric Design, Railway Engineering and Airport Planning, Transportation Planning (and Traffic Engineering). He has contributed to NPTEL course on Railway Engineering and Airport Planning which is widely referred. He has also offered a 12 weeks certificate course on Geometric Design. He possesses academic qualification as BE in Civil Engineering and ME in Highway Engineering, and PhD in Transportation Systems Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 26 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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