14 hrs ago
South Coast Railway Adds Facilities at Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop
A senior railway official named Sandeep Mathur visited a railway wagon workshop in Vijayawada.
The workshop repairs and maintains railway wagons.
He looked at repair areas, overhaul lines, assembly sections, and wheel and bogie shops.
He checked whether the work was safe, high quality, timely, and productive.
He also reviewed plans to improve the workshop’s buildings and equipment.
Two new facilities were started during the visit.
One repairs cartridge tapered roller bearings, and the other cuts metal with a computer-controlled air plasma machine.
These facilities are expected to help the workshop maintain more wagons efficiently.
Railway officials also planted saplings to support cleanliness and environmental sustainability.
South Coast Railway General Manager Sandeep Mathur inspected the Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop in Vijayawada.
Mathur reviewed maintenance bays, Periodic Overhaul lines, assembly sections, and wheel and bogie shops.
The inspection assessed safety, quality standards, turnaround schedules, productivity, and infrastructure augmentation plans.
Mathur commissioned a Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing Overhauling Section and a CNC Air Plasma Cutting Machine.
Officials participated in a plantation drive under the nationwide Swachhata Hi Seva Pakhwada initiative.
- Who
- South Coast Railway General Manager Sandeep Mathur, accompanied by senior railway officials.
- What
- They inspected the Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop and commissioned two new maintenance facilities.
- Where
- Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop in Vijayawada.
- When
- On Sunday; the articles do not provide a calendar date.
- Why
- To review maintenance, modernisation, productivity, safety, and plans to increase rolling stock overhaul capacity.
Key facts
- Inspecting official
- Sandeep Mathur, South Coast Railway General Manager
- Workshop
- Rayanapadu Wagon Workshop
- Location
- Vijayawada
- New facility
- Cartridge Tapered Roller Bearing Overhauling Section
- New machine
- CNC Air Plasma Cutting Machine
- Review areas
- Maintenance, safety, quality, turnaround schedules, productivity, and infrastructure augmentation
- Environmental activity
- Plantation drive under Swachhata Hi Seva Pakhwada











