KONKAN RAILWAYS innovative service ROLL ON - ROLL OFF completes 16 years of successful operation. Seen in video is ROLL ON - ROLL OFF rake, here loaded trucks are directly carried by railway wagons to their destination hauled by WDG-4 over Shashtri River Bridge, Sangameshwar Road - KR. This rake had just 8 trucks as KR also needs to make sure that the delivery is within 12 hours for Kolad-Verna, and within 22 hours for Kolad-Surathkal.
RORO means Roll On Roll Off, where loaded trucks are directly carried by railway wagons to their destination. Konkan Railways passes through tough terrains of India. There is NH-17 passing through same route. Truck drivers find it extremely difficult to drive loaded trucks through ghats, undulating...
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surfaces, narrow roads and poor road and weather conditions. The KRC came with concept of RORO, where loaded trucks are moved on wagons and are travelled by train. This has helped in saving of fuels, decrease in wear and tear of lorries (trucks), relief to drivers of driving in extreme conditions, can reach faster to destination. This also helps in decongestion of roads and lowering of pollution. This concept has been beneficial for both truck operators and KRCL. The Ro-Ro service has earned Konkan Railway Rs 53.31 crore in 2014-15 up to December as compared to Rs 47.4 crore in corresponding period in the previous year. More than 40,000 trucks were carried through Ro-Ro service in 2014-15 up to December. Konkan Railways came up with the innovative Ro-Ro service service in 1999 whereby loaded goods trucks are carried piggy back on railway flat wagons. This service is unique only to Konkan Railways. The popularity of the service can be seen from the fact that about four lakh goods trucks have been carried by this service in the past 16 years. The service has helped the railways get back the piecemeal traffic which had got diverted to the road sector. The service benefits truck owners as well as the railways, while saving precious diesel for the country. It saves wear and tear of tyres, reduces maintenance cost of trucks, enables faster delivery of goods and gives higher profits. The service has also helped decongest the national highway and gives a hassle-free ride to truck drivers.
There are two Ro-Ro services-one between Kolad (145 km from Mumbai) and Verna (a distance of 417 km), and the other between Kolad and Surathkal (a distance of 721 km). The delivery is within 12 hours for Kolad-Verna, and within 22 hours for Kolad-Surathkal, which, by road, will take at least 24 hours and 40 hours, respectively.
Railfans Prathamesh Yeram and Arzan Kotval can be seen in video as well.
Video By : Gunjan Pandya
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