Study of Present Engineering Status of Sudan Railway Corporation (SRC) and Possible Future Enhancements

Abstract

The specific objective of the project is to find & suggest applicable schemes for upgrading & rationalizing SRC Business to cater for more transportation capacities up to the end of the first half of the 22nd century. After specifying the near future PHILOSOPHY OF SRC by having one group of business to run a mixed traffic (freight/ passengers trains) in three categories of lines & the documentation by actual facts that THE NARROW GAUGE OF SRC has not EXHAUSTED its FULL POTENCIAL CAPACITY to fulfill the duties expected for more than a hundred year in the future, we also add that, to adopt a STANDARD GAUGE (S.G) you have to go TOO FAR: new building, new stations, new workshops, new structural & loading gauges, new plateforms, new motive & rolling stocks, new bridges, new track components, new…, new…, etc, why you DEFENITLY DO NOT NEED an (S.G). Upgrading & rationalization of the existing SRC business systems is a sort of preliminary technical studies to upgrade the railway affecting factors (axle load, maximum speed, operating & signaling systems, motive power & rolling stock) which have been done and shown in this project report. But, these studies are not ready for execution because such studies have to be carried out by expert engineers & economists. The suggestions for upgrading have been specified in three PHASES, Phase (0), Phase (1) & Phase (2). The rate of increase in the annual tonnage after upgrading from phase (0) to phase (1) shall be: 244% The rate of increase in the annual tonnage after upgrading from phase (0) to phase (2) shall be: 383% The rate of increase in the annual tonnage after upgrading from phase (1) to phase (2) shall be: 40%