TOWER CAR:
Railway inspection vehicle popularly known as "TOWER CAR", is used by Railway employees to do maintenance and repairs of electrified lines and poles supporting these electric wires. Generally it will be under the control of Senior Section Engineer(SSE) of Traction department. Just like PWay, commercial department and others Traction department is also one of them. In this department, We have two sub divisions OHE and PSI.
OHE stands for Overhead Electrification and PSI stands for Power supply installation. During OHE work, SSE books tower car, takes his working staff to the...
more... working spot and attends the maintenance/repair work.
One Tower car will be roughly alloted every 100 km and also depends on rail traffic. The speciality of this tower car is, it can be operated both by electric supply and diesel.