Railway Siding in Cement Plants: For Project consultant and Engineers

Any industry has to handle more input raw material from outside source or from their mines. Also they have to dispatch their product to market or to storage warehouse. For this they have to use either road transport or Rail transport. If the quantity is less and lead distance is short, then the economical transport is by truck in road. For high capacity plant road transport is not economical and it increase their logistic cost. Also nowadays environmental board is insisting to move all material by Wagon to avoid road pollution and reduce the liquid fuel usage. So establishing of internal railway siding is itself a big task in any new project. The track laying and spacing between rails in siding is differ from plant to plant due to their loading and unloading arrangement.
Also the railway standard is not uniform for entire world and each country is using different standards and track gauges. So in this book we are more specific about industry and railway standard. This book explain about establishing of railway siding for Cement Industry in India. This Book is useful for Project Engineer who handling a new Cement plant project, to Understand the requirement of Railway siding. Please note, we can’t Design and execute the railway siding as our own without engaging a Reputed consultant. However, we have to give some Plant requirement data to consultant, which is explained in this book. Also we can understand lot of terminology used in railway project by reading this book.