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Classification of engine for calculating siding charges while the train engine is doing shunting work over a siding, it means detention to a train and cost

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Please acknowledge receipt. - ~

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(RN. Saxena) Jt. Director Traffle Comm] (R)I Railway Board

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= OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALYA) RAILWAY BOARD

No.TC-I/1089/77/14 New Delhi, dt.28.10.77

The General Managers All Indian Railways

Sub: Classification of engine for calculating siding charges.

Ref: Board’s letter No.TC-I/1089/7 1/2 dt.12.8.71

1. Board have received a number of representations in which siding charges have been recovered on the basis of train engine hour cost although shunting engines have been utilized for the purpose of shunting.

2. It is common knowledge that a train engine costs more than a shunting engine because while the train engine is doing shunting work over a siding, it means detention to a train and cost of such detentions to trains must be recovered from the siding owners who prefer the placement/shunting work to be done at his siding by a train engine.

Although there is no official definition of a “ train engine ” it is clear that when any engine has to be detached from a train for performing shunting in the siding and is attached back to be waiting train after the work is over, it has to be called a ‘train engine’.

3. Board would like to clarify that the class of an engine, or the complement or grade of staff employed or coal used in a particular engine or the fact that a certain engine moves under an authority to proceed are not relevant in so far as its being classified as either “shunting” or “train engine” for the purpose of calculating siding charges is only when an engine is actually detached from a concerned train for shunting operations and is attached back to the train when the shunting work is over, it should be treated as a “train engine”. In cases whe

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