RRTS: Over Head Equipment Tested Successfully By Running Train On Delhi-Ghaziabad Stretch

National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has successfully tested the over head equipment (OHE) by running a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) train from Delhi to Ghaziabad station.

The OHE was charged at 25 kV capacity from Duhai Depot to Ghaziabad RRTS station to run India’s first regional rail in the priority section. The remaining portion of the priority section will be charged soon as well.

Once these tests are successfully carried out, all the sub-systems such as rolling stock, OHE, track and telecom and signalling as well as station infrastructure, platform screen doors etc, will be tested in an integrated manner to check their compatibility with each other and their behaviour from the public safety point of view.

The track work has already been laid out in the priority section.

In the New Year, OHE has been charged with a capacity of 25 kV from the feeding post of the RRTS depot in Duhai to the feeding post near Ghaziabad RRTS station. To test the functioning of the OHE, the train was taken out of the depot for the first time and brought to the Ghaziabad RRTS station.

It was a unique and first-time experience for all the engineers, technicians, architects, and staff working on the project to successfully test the OHE for the first regional rail in the country.

For the track and traction test, the RRTS train was run from Duhai Station to Guldhar Station at the speed of 5 kmph. After the functioning of OHE was found successful, the train proceeded towards Ghaziabad station and returned from the crossover built before the station.

On the return journey from Ghaziabad, the speed of the train was accelerated at 25 kmph to test the OHE, and first stopped at Guldhar Station, then at Duhai Station and finally brought back to Duhai Depot Station.

The installation of OHE on this entire section has reached the final stage, and soon the priority section will be fully charged. The high-speed trial run will soon commence on the priority section.

NCRTC is targeting to commence the operations of trains in the priority section in March of this year. There are five stations in this section, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Guldhar, Duhai and Duhai Depot. All these stations are almost ready for operations.