PREPARED BY:SIDDHARTH VORA (09BCL031) FACULTY GUIDE: PROF.

A M POPAT

INTRODUCTION HISTORY COMPARISON WITH ROAD TRANSPORT

RAILWAY TRACK
MAGLEV TRAIN BULLET TRAIN NEW CONCEPT BY CHINA

WHERE INDIA STANDS????

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Rail transport is the means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way

of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks.

Railways have had a crucial impact on the economic development in

most countries.

HISTORY
The history of rail transport dates back nearly 500 years

and include systems with man or horse power and rails of wood or stone.
Modern rail transport systems first appeared in England in

the 1820s.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the non-electrified railways

in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives.

COMPARISON WITH ROAD TRANSPORT

RAILWAY TRANSPORT ROAD TRANSPORT

Requires less land. More energy efficient. More safe. Less emission of c02 and

Requires more land. Less energy efficient. Less safe. More emission of co2 and

pollutants. Capital intensive.

pollutants. Requires less capital.

RAILWAY TRACK

The history of rail transport dates back nearly 500 years

and include systems with man or horse power and rails of wood or stone.

Fishplate between two sections

A major problem of jointed track is cracking around the bolt

holes, which can lead to the rail head (the running surface) breaking. Most modern railways use continuous welded rail (CWR). Indian railways uses four gauges, the 1,676mm broad gauge which is wider than the 1,435mm standard gauge; the 1,000mm metre gauge; and two narrow gauges, 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) and 610 mm (2 ft) .

MAGLEV TRAIN

The highest recorded speed of a Maglev train is

581 kilometres per hour (361 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003.

Compared to conventional trains

Backwards Compatibility
Efficiency Weight

Noise
Design Comparisons

Advantages of Maglev Trains

Speed: These trains can attain speeds of 250 mph easily (the
speed of a jet aircraft). The Japanese Maglev's last record was of 581km/h. The Shanghai MagLev Train can speed up to 431 km/h

No friction Ecology

maglev train of japan

DISADVANTAGES
Development Price:
The Shanghai maglev cost 9.93 billion yuan to

build

Control Systems

MAGLEV TRACK

The magnetized coil running along the track, called a guideway, repels the large magnets on the train's undercarriage, allowing the train to levitate between 0.39 and 3.93 inches (1 to 10 cm) above the guideway.
The electric current supplied to the coils . This change in polarity causes the magnetic field in front of the train to pull the vehicle forward, while the magnetic field behind the train adds more forward thrust.

BULLET TRAIN

Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high speed travel. Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds.

SHINKANSEN BULLET TRAIN OF JAPAN

ELECTRICITY

Shinkansen uses a 25,000 V AC overhead power supply

ECONOMY

The time savings alone from switching from a conventional to a high-speed network have been estimated at 400 million hours, an economic impact of 500 billion per year.
ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT

Travelling Tokyo-Osaka by Shinkansen produces only around 16% of the carbon dioxide of the equivalent journey by car, a savings of 15,000 tons of CO2 per year.

SHINKANSEN BULLET TRAIN OF JAPAN

ELECTRICITY

Because of the risk of earthquakes, earthquake warning system was introduced in 1992. It enables automatic braking of bullet trains in the case of large earthquakes. The Bullet train could be thought of as the worlds first high speed train. Services started in 1964 with speeds at 210km/h or 131mph, the fastest trains went at the time, and many countries still have no trains running at this speed. It was the success of bullet train which lead to WORLD taking interest in making trains go fast. Since then the trains have been going faster andfaster.

7.NEW CONCEPT DEVELOPED BY CHINA

China non stop train

CHINAS NON STOP TRAIN

This is a brilliant Chinese concept for non-stop train.

A mere 5 min stop per station will result in a total loss of 5 min x 30 stations or 2.5 hours.

So the basic idea revolves around how a fast moving train could be run

without stopping in any of the stations and yet commute passengers from one station to the other.

CHINAS NON STOP TRAIN

While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will

board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the trains roof.
While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will

board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the trains roof.
So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and

pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the trains roof at each station.

WHERE INDIA STANDS?????

INDIAN RAILWAY
Indian Railways has more than 64,015 kilometres (39,777 mi) of track and

6,909 stations. It has the world's fourth largest railway network after that of the United States, Russia and China. The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country and carry over 20 million passengers and 2 million tons of freight daily. It is one of the world's largest commercial or utility employers, with more than 1.6 million employees.

After years of being ridiculed because of its slow pace, and decades of being compared to China, the Indian Railways has delivered a fat punch to the critics.

The fastest train in India is the Bhopal Shatabdi, a Shatabdi Express train, with a maximum speed of 160 km/h (100 mph) and an average speed of 93 km/h (58 mph), excluding stops. The Duronto Express trains introduced in 2009, runs without stop between major cities, is projected the fastest train in India, when new services are introduced with a higher speed limit of 130 km/h. These trains are not comparable in speed to the Shinkansen of Japan (and running in Taiwan), TGV of France, InterCityExpress of Germany, the ETR 500 of Italy, the KTX of South Korea, AVE of Spain, the Wuhan-Guangzhou_High-Speed_Railway trains in China, or the HS 1 of the UK

Proposal to introduce 250-350 km/h trains in India

The Indian ministry of Railways white-paper Vision 2020 submitted to

Indian parliament by Railway Minister Mamta Banerjee on December 18 2009 envisages the implementation of regional high-speed rail projects to provide services at 250-350 km/h, and planning for corridors connecting commercial, tourist and pilgrimage hubs.
Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting

up of high-speed rail corridors: Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar, Pune-MumbaiAhmedabad, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, Howrah-Haldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam, Delhi-Agra-LucknowVaranasi-Patna.

On the Indian front, the fastest train on the Mumbai Pune route is the Deccan Queen that takes 3 hours 15 minutes. The fastest train on the Mumbai Ahmedabad route, the Shatabdi Expresss, takes 6 hours 45 minutes. With the Indian bullet train operational, you could take your trip from Mumbai to Pune in just 20 mins and your travel time from Ahmedabad to Mumbai would be just 120 mins.

NORMALLY IT TAKES 15 TO 25 HOURS FROM MUMBAI TO DELHI, IF THE BULLET TRAINS ARE BUILT, THAT DISTANCE CAN BE COVERED IN JUST 5 HOURS.

CONCLUSION
This seminar carries detail about the latest technology in

railways. This seminar also provide glimpse of how India will be benefited if India modernize its railwayS. Globalization has made world smaller and everything have become faster nowadays. India is still lagging behind when it comes to modern railway. If India modernizes its railway lot of time can be saved and it will be very useful for the national development. I sincerely hope India does it quickly.

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