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Following steps are recommended for railway personnel: |
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Restore rail lines |
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Ensure smooth rail movement for passengers and
relief materials |
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Establish radio communications with emergency
operations centre, divisional commissioner, district
control room and railway officials within the division |
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Appoint one 'Nodal officer-Railway,' at the state
level and one 'Officer-in-Charge-Railway,' at the
district level |
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Officers should ensure that all staff is well
aware of precautions to be taken to protect their
own lives and personal property |
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Fill department vehicles with fuel and park them
in a protected/safe area |
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A plan should be finalized for sending auxiliary
staff and repairmen into affected areas to assist
local people |
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Maintenance and repairmen should be instructed
to assemble and check the repair equipment |
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Rail schedules should be revised and special trains
be instituted to the area, to assist the increased
volume of traffic |
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A schedule for the trains should be developed
by the stationmaster and broadcast over the radio,
cable network |
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Contingency plans should be established for providing
food and emergency shelter for local staff, auxiliary
staffs and affected population |
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Effort should be made for more number of trains
to operate in an emergency situation |
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Emergency train operating procedures and pilot
working system must be developed |
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All staff should be well trained to implement
the emergency system |
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Stationmaster should be given the authority to
dispatch or hold the train, take other emergency
decisions in a disaster-threatening situation |
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Systems should be developed for increasing capacity
to carry increased number of passengers in an emergency
situation |
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Arrangements for alternate means of transport
have to be made for visiting relatives, medical
staff and other people |
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Availability of adequate food supplies must be
ensured |
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All new construction and repair activities should
be halted and the work secured with sandbags and
tarpaulins |
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All perishable and breakable items should be loaded
into goods wagons and padlocked |
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In any coaches remaining in the area, shutters
should be pulled down and doors closed |
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Reserve stocks of fuel should be checked |
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Inspection of all railway bridges, by a bridge
engineer including an underwater survey of foundations,
piers and abutments. |
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The maintenance engineer's staff should carry
out regular weeding, cleaning of ditches, burning
and removal of debris |
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Continuous inspection and repair by maintenance
engineer of all: |
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Railroad tracks |
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Ball casting |
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Cess damage |
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Fishplates |
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Holding down bolts. |
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Relief goods may be considered for exemption from
freight charges |
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Railway stations, particularly terminal and junction
station should be equipped with emergency communication
equipment |
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