ART AND ARME (Carriage & Wagon)

ART AND ARME 

Introduction: 

Accidents and Disasters are unpredicted and unavoidable. Indian Railway has its own mechanism to deal with rescue and restoration work during accidents and disaster is ART & ARME. 

Accidents: Any unusual which effects the safety and transportation of Railway in form of damaging rolling stock, permanent structure and serious injuries / causalities to the Railway passengers / Railway staff is known as Rail accidents.

Any accidents involving more than 100 injuries should be termed as disasters. 

Disasters: 

Disasters in Railway context is defined as a major accident leading to serious casualties and long duration of interruption of trains. 

Disasters caused by Human and equipment failures. i.e.. Collisions, Derailments, Fire, Natural calamities, Sabotages. 

13.1 ART- ACCIDENT RELIEF TRAIN 

At present there are 174 ARMVs and 184 ARTs stationed at strategic locations over Indian Railway system 

CLASSIFICATION OF ART. 

• A class 

• B class 

• C class 

• Other types of ART 

• SPART (Self propelled ART) 
• Road ART (Modified road vehicle) 

Composition of A class ART 

1. 140 ton Crane with Match truck. 

2. BCNHS (For Engineering and C & W Materials) 

3. BRNHS (For Rails & Wheels) 

4. RT (Staff car) 

5. RT (Officers car) 

6. RT (Packing van) 

7. RT (Equipment van) 

8. RT (HRE & Power van) 

9. RT (Crane tool van) 

Composition of B class ART 

1. BCN (For Engineering and C & W Materials) 

2. BRN (For Rails & Wheels) 

3. RT (Staff car) 

4. RT (Packing van & OHE van) 

5. RT (Equipment van) 

6. RT (HRE & Power van) 

7. RT (Tool van) 

Composition of C class ART RT (Brake down van) 

13.2 ARME- Accident Relief Medical Van 

Classification of ARME 

1) SCALE 1 ARME: 

SCALE EQUIPMENTS ARE STORED IN SPECIAL MEDICAL VANS STABLED IN SEPARATE SIDINGS. MEDICAL  VAN (RH), HAVE OPERATION THEATRE & MEDICAL EQUIPMENTS. AUXILIARY MEDICAL VAN (RHV) HAVE ALL RESCUE EQUIPMENTS I.E. HRD( CUTTING EQUIPMENTS), S & T AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENTS. 

2) SCALE 2 ARME: 

EQUIPMENTS STORED IN SPECIAL ROOMS ON PLATFORMS. 

Authorities to order ART & ARME:- CME, CMPE, Sr.DME, DME 

Codes for accident alarm siren / hooter 

• Two hooters each of 45 seconds duration with 5 sec. interval indicate ART required at home stations. 

• Three hooters each of 45 sec duration with 5 sec. interval indicate ART required at out station. 

• Four hooters each of 45 seconds duration with 5 sec. interval indicate ART& ARME required at home station. 

• Five hooters each of 45 seconds duration with 5 sec. interval indicate ART & ARME required at out stations. 

• One long hooter of 90 seconds duration indicate cancellation of ART & ARME. 

TURN OUT TIME & SPEED 

• Turn out time of ART in day 30 minutes. 
• Turn out time of ART at night 45 minutes 
• Turn out time of ARME with double exit 15 minutes. 
• Turn out time of ARME with single exit 20 minutes.  

List of tools & equipments on class A & B ART

 1) Generator & electrical equipments 

2) illumination 

3) Oxy cutting equipments 

4) Compressor pneumatic tools 

5) Hydraulic Re railing equipments 

6) Jacks 

7) Wire ropes, slings & shackles 

8) Chains, slings & wooden packing 

9) Other mechanical equipments 

10) Fitters tools 

11) Blacksmith tool 

12) Measuring instruments 

13) Oil & grease 

14) Locomotive spare parts 

15) C & W spare parts 

16) Engineering tools 

17) Fire fighting equipments 

18) Medical equipments 

19) S&T equipments 

20) Books & Manuals 

21) Records 

22) Camera & Videography 

SPEED 

Existing speed of ART - 75 kmph 

Pro posed speed of ART - 100 kmp 

Existing speed of ARME -100 kmph 

Proposed speed of ARME -140 kmph 

140 T CRANE 

• 140 ton crane is available with A class ART 

• There are two types of 140 T crane in IR 

1. Jessop 

2. Gotwal 

• All cranes are self propelled at a speed of 30 kmph. Books & Manuals Reqd. in ART 

1) Transportation manual 

2) Accident manual 

3) G & S R 

4) IRCA part 3 & part 4 

5) Telegraph code book 

6) First aid manual 

7) Safety first instruction book 

8) Rules for working of crane 

9) Working time table. 

Sequence of Movement Of ART & ARME To The Accident Site 

• ARME 
• ARME from the other end 
• ART 
• ART from the other end 
• Additional brake down special 
• Special train carrying GM & other officers 
• Unaffected portion of accident involved train if possible 
• Empty coaching special for clearing passengers. 

Duties of Mechanical Dept. 

1. Ensure marshalling of ART according to site requirement before moving to accident site. 

2. Ensure OHE power supply switched off before commissioning rescue/restoration work. 

3. Toppling those coaches whose searches has been completed. 

4. In case of suspected sabotage, ensure minimum interference to clues. 

5. .Extricating injured passengers and dead bodies from coaches. 

6. Take assistance from other dept. 

7. Maximum number of coaches to be tackled simultaneously. 

8. Road crane to be arranged to assist 140T crane. 

9. Examined unaffected and re railed rolling stock and certify their fitness for further movements. 

IRCA- INDIAN RAILWAY CONFRENCE ASSOCIATION 

• HEAD QUARTER- DRM Building New Delhi 
• WORKING: Under Rly Board(Member Traffic) 
• ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL-GM/Northern Rly 
• HEAD: General Secretary (Traffic /Commercial Deptt.). 

AIM: 

• To upgrade the maintenance quality of rolling stock (carriage & wagon). 
• Rate fixing and preparation of passenger ticket and goods charges. 
• To dissolve the operational dispute between two interchanging point. 
• Pre & final examination during POH &ROH to be carried out by neutral TXR (IRCA) and final fit memo to be issued to the concerning officer of the w/shop or sick line. 
• Repair cost during POH & ROH & Other repair of carriage & wagon to be assess & repair cost sent to railway board. 
• Suggestion and rake assessment of amount paid by commercial department. On account of railway claim to be service time to time and proposal sent to railway. 

WORK: 

• Mechanical deptt. : Final fitness of off POH / NPOH, off ROH & other wagon lying in sick line for miscellaneous defects to be issued by IRCA men i.e. NTXR. 
• Operating deptt. To dissolve the operational dispute between two railways, preparation of time table etc. 
• Commercial deptt: Rate fixing & preparation of passenger ticket & goods stock. 
• Accounts: Accountant assessment of the expenditure to be checked by IRCA. 

 Mechanical Deptt. Concern: IRCA gives out the rules for the standards condemning sizes of various components used on rolling stock. They also give the guidelines for the maintenance of rolling stock in workshop and in open line. The rule books used for the carriage & wagon issued for the carriage &wagon branch of mechanical deptt. are: part III for wagon stock & part IV for coaching stock . 

IRCA part III & part IV contain 4 chapters 

ChapterDetails 

Rejectable defect in coaching stock 

As per IRCA. Rule book part iv, chapter iv rejections are given from Rule No. 4.0-4.25.2:- 

(4.1) Coaching stock must not be allowed with any chargeable, reject able and any other defects from work shop. 

(4.2) Maintenance depots shall ensure the maintenance procedure givens in chapter II and III and No any reject able defects is allowed. 

(4.3) Notwithstanding any provisions in the rules, coaching stock must not be allowed to run if in the opinion of a Train Examiner, it is in such a condition as if may cause an accident. 

(4.4) Coaching stock must not be allowed with any defects having ‘S’ marks for Guidance of staff concern. 

Example:- Axle Box Defects; 

- Axle box lug/wing broken. 

‘S’ - Hot box; 

- Over due oiling 

- Due repacking. 

‘S’ - Axle guard defects; 

Axle guard bridle bar crack, 

deficient , broken. 

- Hydraulic dash pots broken 

- Body defects; door bent 

- Alarm chain damaged/deficient. 

- Brake gear defects; 

- Brake gear fitting deficient. 

- Brake gear (Air brake system)

-Any defects in brake system; 

‘S’ - Any buffer dead.

 - Draft gear + Coupling; 472 ‘S’ 

- Draw bar, hook draft hook broken

 - Draft gear + buffing in EMU; 

- Infringement of O.D.C 

- Trolley frame defects; 

‘S’ - Bolster spring plank broken. 

- Spring gear; 

- Shifted more than 13mm 

- Tyre defects 

‘S’ - loose tyre Wheel defects ‘S’ 

- thin tyre,

 sharp flange etc Under frame defects crack or bent 

‘S’ - Under slung tank suspension bracket broken 

‘S’ - Buffer Height Variation more than 64 mm on same end 

‘S’ - Axle Pulley Loose. 

‘S’ - Brake Block Deficient. or excessive worn 

‘S’ - Foot Board, Hand Hold deficient 

‘S’ - Any Buffer Dead

 ‘S’ - Wheel Shifted on Axle