Coach Management System

Abstract:
Indian Railway is lifeline of India.. Ever Since the evolution of human being on this earth
it has been a matter of immense curiosity for them to invent new things in life to make
life easier and hassle free. Owing to its nature humans have always kept inventing and
discovering for better livelihood. Going back to our past we see some Great inventions
of mankind and one such is that of Railway.

The noval plan for the introduction of Indian rail system, Transformed whole history of
INDIAN RAILWAY. The innoavative plan was first propsed in 1832, however auxiliary
actions were taken for over a decade. In the year 1844, private enterpreneurs were
allowed to launch a rail system by lord Hardinge, who was the Governer-Genral of India.
By the year 1845, two companies were formed and east India Company was requested
to support them in the matter.

INDIAN RAILWAY have been divide into nine (9) zones- Western, Central, Northan,

North Eastern, Northeast, Frontier, Southern, South Central, South-central & South-

eastern covering the largest route length of cover 63000 kms of total Indian boundary.

, The last stations of the four directional boundaries are West-Mumbai South-

Kanyakumari, East-Guwahati, and North-Jammu.

There are five types of trains which are running in the Indian Railways that are given

below:

1.Passenger train

2.Mail/Express

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 3.Shatabadi train

4.Jan-Shatabdi

5.Rajdhani

The Shatabdi train is the fastest among all these trains and covering only some of the

destination. In the Indian Railway Coach Maintenance Department is the most

important. There are many work handles in POH SHOP, these are given below:

Carraige Poh Shop

Wagon Poh Shop

Diesel Poh Shop

Production Poh Shop

Electric Rolling Poh Shop

Electric Shop

There are many production-units from where the coaches are newly manufactured that

are:

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi
Integral Coach Factory, Perambur
Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala
Wheel & Axle Plant, Bangalore
Diesel Component Works, Patiala
The research Design and Standard Organization, Lucknow, provides vital
inputs in R&D towards modernization.

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 6 prestigious public sector undertaking : IRCON, RITES, CRIS, CONCOR,
IRFC and Konkan Railway corporation.
When, the coach is prepared in the POH SHOP. The train go to the yard.

A Railway yard is an area having a network of railway tracks and siding for Storage

and maintenance of cars and engineers. In the marshalling yard of Indian railway in

which trains are assembled and good are loaded. In the marshalling yard railway

wagons are Shunted and made up into trains.

In the yard, the coaches are maintained in 3-schedules namely:-

1.A-Schedule

2.B-Schedule and

3.C-Schedule

1.A-Schedule:- A Schedule is primary schedule. This schedule is done every month for

any coach.

2.B-Schedule:- This schedule is done in any coach after 3-month in the yard.

3.C-Schedule:- This schedule is done in any coach after 6-month in the yard.

IOH means intermediate over holding. In this shop the coaches are maintained any time

when necessary.

Apart from these register the organization has to publish reports about the coaches to

supervisior.

Seceondary Detachment

Some times during running of the train some faults occur in a coach or number of
coaches or entire rake. Then coaches are detached from that rake and sent for
maintenance. This is called secondary detachment of coach.
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My Job is to convert these entire manual jobs to a computerized system. My project
work is the outcome as solution to the aforementioned manual jobs. This project is
being done under DRM Office, Danapur (ECR).

HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

PROCESSOR : PENTIUM IV

Main Memory : 512 MB

HDD : 40 GB

SVGA Color Monitor

Multimedia kit (C D drive, sound card speaker, Microphone)

System, Logitech Mouse, 105 keys Keyboard

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION

Platform used:-

OPERATING SYSTEM : WINDOWS XP

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Front- End Tool:-

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE : JAVA

Back- End Tool:-

RDBMS : ORACLE 9i

Documentation : MS- Office 2002

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