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Goldenrock workshop readies to handle General Motors locos

Staff Reporter

Seeks Rs. 30 crore from Railway Board for modernisation

— Photo: R. M. Rajarathinam

FLAGGED OFF : The locos on their way to Sudan after being flagged off in Tiruchi on Friday.

TIRUCHI: Southern Railway authorities have sent a proposal to the Railway Board for carrying out modification works at the Goldenrock Railway Workshop here, to enable it to can handle new generation General Motors locomotives when they come for periodic overhaul in 2007.

Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway, Jayantha Ghosh, told reporters here on Friday that the authorities had sought Rs. 30 crore for modifying and modernising facilities at the workshop.

The General Motors locos have higher horsepower and can operate at high speed.

Southern Railway has received seven new diesel locomotives replacing the older ones this year, he said. The authorities have requested the Board to give 10 more locos in order to replace the over-aged fleet.

Mr. Ghosh, who flagged off the second consignment of three in-service metre gauge locomotives to Sudan after modifications were carried out at the workshop, said they would send 10 in-service metre gauge diesel locomotives and five locos to Mozambique and Senegal respectively after overhaul and modifications.

The Goldenrock Workshop would also rehabilitate four Hitachi locomotives that had arrived from Sudan recently. All these would be sent back in 18 to 20 months time.

Mr. Ghosh said there was demand from other African countries like Nigeria, Congo and Tanzania for supply of locomotives.

The Goldenrock Workshop and the Carriage and Loco Workshops at Perambur in Chennai were working towards obtaining ISO 14,000 certification.

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