Passenger Traffic

The Passenger Business Unit is responsible for the creation, maintenance and delivery of passenger services and all related amenities to the traveling public, including the transportation of parcel traffic. The Unit is headed by the Additional General Manager (PBU), who is assisted by the following Heads of Departments

Chief Electrical Engineer

Chief Commercial Manager

Chief Mechanical Engineer Carriages

Deputy Chief Operating  Superintendent/Coaches

Divisional Superintendent Workshop/Moghalpura

Introduction of New Trains

Freight Traffic

In the financial year,2006-2007 the Freight Business Unit carried 320335 wagons. The freight earnings during the financial year 2006-07 was Rs.5052.396 millions.

• To win further freight traffic feasibility studies have been carried out by the PRACS (Pakistan Railways Advisory Committee Services) for Chakwal Area where the Cement Industry is concentrated.

• An agreement is being negotiated with MIS Sirius for transportation of 250000 tonnes Cement from Taxila to Karachi Port Area.

• An agreement is to· be concluded with MIS Abid Traders to . transport 5000 tonnes Cement to Faisaabad, 10,000 tonnes for Lahore and 20,000 tonnes for Karachi pe'r month from Rawalpindi Division.

• Pakistan Railways loaded 40739 wagons (814780 tonnes) POL Trade from keamari in 2006-07 against 26783 wagons (535660 tonnes) during the year 2005-06.

• Pakistan Railway loaded 20251 wagons (405020 tonnes) POL Trade from Rawalpindi in 2006-07 againsY16,6Q8 wagons (33360 tonnes) during the year 2005-06.

Cargo Express

A Cargo Express Service introduced since 1974 is now run daily for transportation of general cargo from Karachi City to Badami Bagh/Lahore and vice versa. This cargo express has been restructured with High Capacity and High Speed Wagons alongwith term facilities to increase the present load of 1000 tonnes to 1440 ton and reduce the running time to half. A similar Cargo Service has initiated between Faisalabad and Karachi and vice versa. Presently, these services are being run thrice a week

Manufacturing & Services Unit

Headed by the General Manager Manufacturing & Services, this
unit is composed of:

1.

Concrete Sleeper Factories

2.

Carriage Factory, Islamabad

3.

Locomotive  Factory, Risalpur

4

Rehabilitation Project, Mughalpura, Lahore

5.

Medical and Health Service

6

Railway Construction Company

7.

Pakistan Railway Advisory & Consultancy Services

8.

Educational Facilities

Pakistan Locomotive Factory, Risalpur

The locomotive manufacturing factory was established at Risalpur in 1993 at a total cost of Rs. 2284 million including a foreign exchange component of Rs. 1469 million. It is a modern factory and is equipped with state of the art plant & machinery. This factory is spread over an area of 257 acres, out of which 100 acres are covered by the factory while on the remaining 157 acres is the staff colony. The factory-covered area is 11 acres. The design production capacity of the factory is 25 diesel electric locomotives per annum on signal shift basis. The production capacity can however be increased to 48 locomotives per annum by introducing double shifts. The technology for manufacturing locomotives has been acquired from Hitachi Ltd. Japan, General Electric (USA)/ADtranz (Germany) and Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, China. The factory has achieved the design capacity of two locomotive per month in the ongoing project of 69 DE locomotives. Pakistan locomotive factory has so far manufactured 77 new locomotives (up to july-07) in the range of 2000-3000 hp for Pakistan Railways. Besides manufacturing of new locomotives 26 overage locomotives of 2000-2400 hp have also been rehabilitation by this factory. in addition to this, different spare parts of locomotives are also being manufactured on regular basis for use on Pakistan Railways. The locomotives manufactured in this factory are successfully operating the important main line trains and are working equally well as compared to other important locomotives. This factory has saved foreign exchange to the tune of Rs. 641.00 million as a result of local manufacturing. Additional Rs. 751.00 million are expected to be saved in the ongoing project of 69 locomotives.

Infrastructure Business Unit

IBU is responsible for construction & maintenance of track buildings, signaling, telecommunication; electrical supply & electric traction.

1.

Civil Engineering

2.

Survey and Construction

3.

Design

4.

Signal Engineering

5.

Telecommunication

6

Electrical Engineering

Track

Complete Track Renewal   = 399 Kms.

Sleeper Renewal              = 501 Kms.