SRC Motive Power, Rolling stock & Track Design, Specification, Construction & Safety

Abstract

The general objectives of this project is a comprehensive package of study & analysis of the main components of SRC business in order to draw conclusions & recommendations on deviations from specifications in motive power, development in rolling stock bogie design & the interaction between wheel/rail to analyze the stability & safety of trains on the track, this has been covered in chapters two & three. The specific objective of this project shall be a preliminary technical feasibility study for some of the existing main line routes of SRC to be up-graded to a higher speed of 120km/hr. & a higher axle load of 20 tons which is a redesigning work involving train track dynamics studies. This has been done as a research work which showed that the NARROW GAUGE of SRC track with up-grading can serve Sudan freight transportation for more than hundred years. This has been presented in the Research Work Chapter (chapter four) with calculations sported by references Chapter five of the conclusions & recommendations recommends practical testing for the fuel consumptions to be conducted in SRC to show that diesel engines in traction application have to be of medium speed. The results of these tests shall be very useful to SRC.