DERAILMENT & THEIR CAUSES

Derailment of rolling stock is defined as a wheel or set of wheels leaving their due
place from the rail top surface.
FACTORS CAUSING DERAILMENT
Track
Rolling stock
Signal
Operational
Others
TRACK DEFECTS
Spread Gauge
Track Buckling
Insufficient Ballast
Loosening of Track itting Items
Sharp !urve
Rail racture
Twisted Track
ROLLING STOCK
"heel #rofile
Bogie Defect
"heel $amming due to RB ailure
DEFECTS IN WHEEL PROFILE
Sharp lange
Thin lange
"orn Root
Deep lange
lat T%re
OPERATIONAL
&neven Loading
'(cessive Speed
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'mergenc% Braking
O4struction on Track
SIGNAL
Setting of "rong #oints
!hipping of the Tongue Rail
'(cessive Gap 4etween Stock Rail to Tongue Rail
Slackness in tie 4ar
Tampering of Signal)#oints
CATEGORY OF DERAILMENTS
Sudden Derailment
Gradual Derailment
SUDDEN DERAILMENT
Symptoms:
Short mark across the rail ta4le
$ust a scratch mark on the rail head edge
5o mark at all 4ut drop marks on sleepers
Derailing forces were high enough to
Suddenl% offload the wheel
'asier to find pro4a4le cause
SUDDEN DERAILMENT
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Sudden shifting of load
Improperl% loaded vehicle
'(cessive speed on curve or turn out
Sudden variations in draw 4ar forces
ailure of track or vehicle components
O4struction on the track.
GRADUAL DERAILMENT
Symptoms:
7 long mark on rail ta4le 8 Gradual derailment 4% flange clim4ing
Probb!" C#s"s:
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ROLLING STOCK MEASUREMENT
"heel #rofile
Bearing
9orn gap a(le 4o( clearance
!entre pivot
Suspension
Brake gear conditions
Damages of an% other part
TRACK MEASUREMENT
ormation
Ballast
Gauge
!ross level
twist
Track 7lignment: &nevenness
!reep ; <ersine
DERAILMENT PRE$ENTION
#eriodic '(amination of
Track
Rolling Stock
Signal
!ontinuous 7wareness
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