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The Ministry of Railways has directed the Zonal Railways to keep outage of locomotives at 10 per cent higher level than the target to ensure faster clearance and movement of rail traffic. This has been prompted by increase in traffic.
The Zonal Railways have been asked to improve locomotive utilization by eliminating avoidable detentions. They have also been advised to pay special attention to repair of other Zonal Railway’s failed locomotives in the nearest shed on their system to make available crew to avoid detention of running trains.
The Zonal Railways have also been instructed to improve availability of wagons by restricting the ineffective to the barest minimum. They have been asked to minimize detention at the terminals by encouraging users to adopt “Engine On Load (EOL) system”. Facilities at goods shed needed to be improved by proper illumination, repair and upkeep of circulating area and approach roads.
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