But it was another five years before I announced to a schoolfriend that I wanted to write for a living, and still longer before my initial efforts turned into anything that could be published. What that August evening may have done was to give me the beginnings of the idea of how and why stories are conceived and written, and perhaps it was then that the first seeds of this book were sown. Kolkata, Jaipur, Hyderabad and New Delhi.Back in May 1945, back when the first of my father's books, The Three Railway Engines, was published, it certainly wouldn't have occurred to my not-quite-five-year-old mind that I would be writing a foreword for a collection of my own stories 60-plus years later.Įven a six mere years later, when, at Great Yarmouth on 31 August 1951, my father and I encountered the ex-Great Eastern Railway tram engine which became the prototype for Toby, I was no wiser. Inspection and development work, are located at Bangalore, Bhopal, Mumbai, The Design Cellsįor Railway Production Units and Industries, which look after liaison, Supply, Signalling & Telecommunication, Resource & Testing and Traffic &Īll the Verticals/Directorates of RDSO are located at Lucknow. Incharge of Administration, Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Traction & Power (Engineering), Special Director General (Vendor Development), Special Director General (S&T), Additionalĭirector General & Principal Executive Director heads of seven verticals RDSO is headed by Director General assisted by Special Director General The status of RDSO has been changed from an ’Attached Office’ to ’Zonal Railway’ since. With Independence and the resultant phenomenal increase in country’s industrial and economic activity, which increased the demand of rail transportation - a new organisation called Railway Testing and Research Centre (RTRC) was setup in 1952 at Lucknow, for testing and conducting applied research for development of railway rolling stock, permanent way etc.Ĭentral Standards Office (CSO) and the Railway Testing and Research Centre (RTRC) were integrated into a single unit named Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in 1957, under Ministry of Railways at Lucknow. However, till independence, most of the designs and manufacture of railway equipments was entrusted to foreign consultants. To enforce standardization and co-ordination amongst various railway systems, the Indian Railway Conference Association (IRCA) was set up in 1903, followed by the Central Standards Office (CSO) was set up at Shimla in 1930, for preparation of designs, standards and specifications. Railways were introduced in India in 1853 and as their development progressed through to the twentieth century, several company managed and systems grew up. Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways List of Maintenance Instruction (MI) & Instruction (IN)/Other Documents.List of Specification & Drawing (For Spare Parts of On-Track Machines).
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