Question Paper – Compassionate Ground Appointment for group C (12.10.2017)

04-06-2022

Question Paper – Compassionate Ground Appointment for group C (12.10.2017)   Click Above or See below PDF     Indian Railway Question

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How many locomotives does IR have in its fleet?
June 20, 2019

As of 1998, IR operated a fleet of about 4,400 diesel locos, and about 2,550 electric locos. In mid-1997, it still counted 85 steam locos in its fleet, although most of those are not in service any more (see the section on the last of steam. In 2005, IR had about 4,800 diesels, 3,065 electrics, and 44 steam locos. ये भी पढ़े -

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What’s the ‘tractive effort’ of a locomotive?
June 20, 2019

What’s the ‘tractive effort’ of a locomotive? The ‘tractive effort’ is a measure of how large a load the loco can pull and set in motion from a standstill — the maximum force it can exert at the drawbar or coupling. While the raw horsepower rating of the loco is important, it is not the whole story. The loco's weight also comes into

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Serial numbers: How are/were locomotives numbered in India?
June 20, 2019

Prior to 1940 or so, each railway company had its own system of numbering different classes of locomotives. Beginning in the early 1940s, the state began taking over several of the railway companies, and newer locomotives acquired thereafter were allotted numbers based on the ‘IRS’ (and later ‘IGR’) classes; but numbers were duplicated

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Were/are battery-powered electric locos used in India?
June 20, 2019

Yes. Western Railway inherited from the BB&CI Railway two broad-gauge battery-powered shunters that were used in a yard that was not electrified (and where the use of steam or diesel locos was thought to be too noisy). There is a picture of one of these in Jal Daboo's book. These were locomotives built in England in 1927, and for their time

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What kinds of bogies (trucks) are used by IR’s locomotives?
June 20, 2019

For mainline BG locomotives, there were, until the 1980s, two main alternatives. The venerable WDM-2 which existed (exists) in vast numbers, along with the WDS-6, WAM-4, WAG-5, and some of the WCAM-1/2 locos used an Alco design asymmetric trimount (Co-Co) cast bogie design. Most other mainline BG locos used some variant of the GM-EMD 'Flexicoil'

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LOCOMOTIVES/General Information
June 20, 2019

LOCOMOTIVES/General Information WHAT DO THE DESIGNATIONS SUCH AS ‘WDM-2’ MEAN? WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES FOR LOCOS? WHERE WERE/ARE LOCOMOTIVES USED IN INDIA MANUFACTURED? WHICH WERE THE EARLIEST DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT? WHICH WERE THE EARLIEST ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES IN INDIA? OTHER THAN

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