On Wednesday, Suvomoy Mitra, Commissioner of Railway Safety for the Eastern Circle in Kolkata, inspected the doubling project of the Jiwdhara-Bapudham Motihari railway line. This project is part of the 100-kilometer Muzaffarpur-Sugauli doubling project. After inspecting the newly built Jiwdhara-Motihari section, a speed trial at 120 km/h was conducted on the...
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line using a special train. The CRS's inspection was carried out with a view to potentially making the line a double line. The CRS's team included Deputy Commissioner of Railway Safety, T.K. Nandi, Divisional Railway Manager, Vinay Srivastava, Senior Divisional Operation Manager, Dr. Nilesh Kumar, Senior Divisional Engineer, Coordination, Sanjay Kumar, Senior Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer, Rahul Dev, Senior Divisional Safety Officer, Praveen Kumar, Chief Administrative Officer, Ramjanam, Chief Engineer, R.K. Badal, Deputy Chief Engineer, R.K. Srivastava, and officials from the Hajipur Headquarters and the Samastipur division. The inspection included a thorough examination of each gate, bridge, curve, and ROB construction work on the Jiwdhara-Motihari section. All signal gear was inspected. At Motihari station, the on-duty station master, Vipin Kumar, provided information about operational issues and alternatives were discussed with the Chief Signal Engineer. Following this, the CRS conducted a speed trial on the newly built line at a speed of 120 km/h on a special train. The CRS is expected to provide feedback on the newly built section by late night. After the speed trial, the CRS was received at Motihari station by station superintendent Dilip Kumar.