RESEARCH DESIGNS AND STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

TRACTION INSTALLATION DIRECTORATE

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Maintenance Instructions

TITLE: MASTER LIST OF MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS

FOR
TRACTION INSTALLATION DIRECTORATE.

PREPARED BY SE/DOC

APPROVED BY DTI-P&S
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Maintenance Instructions

1.0 List of maintenance instructions(MI) & Instruction(IN)

Should be available with

These maintenance instructions & instructions should be available with the Zonal Railways
HQ, Sr. DEEs of the electrified Railways, the PSI and OHE depot in charges of the
division or any other supervisor responsible for the effective implementation of these
instructions.

Responsibility of distributions
The responsibility of prompt distribution of these instructions to the Zonal Railways HQ
level will be of RDSO. The responsibility of prompt distribution of these instructions to the
Sr. DEE/Trd of the division will be of CEDE of the zonal Railways and distribution of
these instruction upto the depot level / concerned Forman will be of Sr. DEE/Trd of the
division.

Responsibility of implementation
The responsibility of effective monitoring implementation of these instructions will be of
CEDE of the Zonal Railways within the Zonal railway. Sr. DEE/Trd will be responsible for
arranging all stores related materials for these instructions. While, the depot in charge shall
be responsible for, quality of implementation and effective implementation of these
instructions. In each case decision regarding their implementation lies with the CEDE of
the Zonal Railway based upon the local condition prevailing.
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Maintenance Instructions

MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS (MI) :-

Maintenance Rev Instruction Description of the item

Instruction regarding
Number
TI/MI/0001(10/82) 0 OHE, Failure of 25 kV pedestal insulator and to use only
Insulators solid core support insulator.
TI/MI/0007(06/84) 0 ,, Use of disc insulator in place of 9-t solid core
insulators of 25 kV ac OHE.
TI/MI/0008(08/94) 0 ,, Failure of 9-t insulator due to non provision of
double eye distance rod at BWA location.
TI/MI/0018(04/06) 3 OHE, ATD Winch type regulating equipment
TI/MI/0026(07/03) 2 Capacitor Periodical maintenance instruction & trouble
Bank shooting guidelines for capacitor bank.
TI/MI/0027(03/98) 0 OHE Development of 107 mm2 silver bearing copper
Conductor contact wire (silver contents 0.1%)
TI/MI/0028(09/01) 2 OHE, Panto Overhead equipments (OHE) on turnout/cross over
entanglement to avoid panto entanglements.
TI/MI/0029(04/06) 3 OHE, ATD 3:1 Ratio, 3 Pulley type regulating equipment
TI/MI/0034(06/99) 0 OHE, OOR Contact wire in out of run OHE
TI/MI/0035(09/01) 1 OHE, ATD Provision of pipe on Hex Tie Rod of auto
Tensioning Device (ATD)
TI/MI/0036(09/99) 0 Insulated cad. Provision of insulated cad. Copper catenary wire under
Cu. Catenary overline structure on 25 kV ac traction systems.
TI/MI/0037(10/06) 2 Contact wire - Maintenance instruction for OHE contact wire and
OHE fittings associated fittings.
TI/MI/0038(05/06) 2 Transformer Inspection test schedule for traction power transformer
TI/MI/0039(10/03) 1 Transformer Schedule for periodic overhaul of traction transformer
TI/MI/0040(04/05) 0 Insulator To measure the severity of pollution by brush wash
method
TI/MI/0041(09/05) 1 Lightening Maintenance Instruction for lighting arresters.
Arrester
TI/MI/0042(12/08) 0 Porcelain & Special maintenance instructions for testing of 25kV
composite Porcelain & composite Insulators before installation.
Insulator
TI/MI/0043(08/08) 0 8-Wheeler Maintenance Instruction for 8-Wheeler Tower Wagons
covering instructions for DETC & DHTC.
TI/MI/0044(01/09) 0 for uniflow Guidelines for overhead hopper/chute/crane loading
overhead unloading of rakes in electrified siding.
loading
TI/MI/0045(10/09) 0 Auto tensioning Gas auto tensioning device
device
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Maintenance Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS (IN) :-

Instruction Rev Instruction Description of the item

Number regarding
TI/IN/0001(05/94) 0 PSI, Control Instruction for Booster Transformer & Return conductors
voltage in 25 kV ac. Traction systems.
TI/IN/0002 0 Shunt Guidelines for design of fixed compensation for
Capacitor improving power factor at 25V, 50 Hz traction sub-station.
TI/IN/0007(09/01) 0 Insulator Instruction for action to be taken in case of failure for an
insulator
TI/IN/0008(09/01) 0 Copper cross Instruction for use of copper cross feeders at switching
feeder station.
TI/IN/0009(10/01) 0 OHE, Spider Instruction for splicing of 19/3.99 mm Aluminum
conductor (spider) .
TI/IN/0011(12/05) 0 TSS Guidelines operating procedures of TSS in Mumbai Area
TI/IN/0012(12/05) 0 Insulator Failure prone insulators, Insulators suspected to be failure
prone and those to be retained in service
TI/IN/0013(12/05) 0 Composite Action to be taken by Dvn./OHE Depots for handling of
Insulator composite insulators.
TI/IN/0014(04/07) 0 DRPC Dynamic reactive power compensation on Indian
Railways.
TI/IN/0016(05/08) 0 Transformer Parallel operation of traction transformers on Indian
Railways.
TI/IN/0017(07/08) 0 Transformer Guide lines on protection scheme with parallel operation
of 2x21.6 MVA Traction transformers.
TI/IN/0018(02/09) 0 Substation Application of existing Panto Flash over Relay at traction
(TSS) substation (TSS) for single line section on Indian
Railways.
TI/IN/0015(02/10) 0 Wire rope Application of lubricant on wire rope used with Auto
(ATD) Tensioning Device
TI/IN/0019(09/09) 0 Load Profile Instruction for load profile, current & voltage harmonics
measurement and recording in a 25 kV ac traction sub-
station.
TI/IN/0020 (12/09) 0 SCADA Instruction for timely replacement and up gradation of
computers at Remote Control Centres for Traction
SCADA System on IR.
TI/IN/0021 (01/10) 0 SCADA Instruction for increasing data transfer speed of the
traction SCADA system on IR from 600/1200 bps to
minimum 9600 bps.
TI/IN/0022 (02/10) 0 Relays Setting guidelines for traction transformer & 25 kV shunt
capacitor protection relays developed as per RDSO’s spec
no. TI/SPC/PSI/PROTCT/6070 (9/08) for 25 kV ac TSS.
TI/IN/0023 (02/10) 0 SCADA Instruction for operating RTU with power supply of 110 V
dc in place of 240 V dc for existing traction SCADA
system on IR.
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Maintenance Instructions

2.0 Distribution
S. No Abbreviation Complete Address
1 CEE/SER South Eastern Railway, Garden Reach, Calcutta- 700 043.
2 CEE/ER Eastern Railway, Fairlie Place, Calcutta-700 001.
3 CEE/NR Northern Railway, Baroda House, New Delhi – 110 001.
4 CEE/SR Southern Railway, Park Town, Chennai- 600 003.
5 CEE/SCR South Central Railway, Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad -
500371
6 CEE/WR Western Railway,Stn Bldg. Churchgate,
Mumbai - 400 020.
7 CEE/CR Central Railway, Stn. Bldg.Mumbai CST - 400 001.
8 CEE/SWR South West Railway, DRM’s Office, Hubli.(Kanataka)
9 CEE/WCR West Central Railway, H.Q. Office, 1st floor, Indira
Market Civil Line, Jabalpur(MP)
10 CEE/ECOR B-2, Rail Vihar, Chandshekherpur, Bhubaneswar-
751 023(Orrisa)
11 CEE/ECR East Central Railway, Hajipur (Bihar)
12 CEE/NCR North Central Railway, HQ Office, Block-A,
Subedarganj,Allahabad.211033
13 CEE/SECR South East Central Railway, Bilaspur (Chattisgarh)
14 CEE/NER North Eastern Railway Gorakhpur-273 001
15 CEE/CORE/ Central Organization for Railway Electrification, Nawab
Allahabad Yusuf Road, Allahabad - 211001.
14 Director/IREEN Director, Indian Railways Institute of Electrical
Engineering, Post Box No.233, Nasik Road-422101
15 Secy./Elec./Rly. Bd. Railway Board, Rail Bhavan, New Delhi –110 001.
16 Secy./RE./Rly. Bd. Railway Board, Rail Bhavan, New Delhi – 110 001.
17 Sr. EDTI For Records and reference
18 EDTI For Records and reference
19 DTI-PSI For Records and reference
20 DTI-P & S For Records and reference
21 DTI-OHE For Records and reference
23 SE-I/DOC/TI Reference copy 1 for record