(10) Night foot plate inspection - He should carry out night inspection once in a month to check
alertness of Gatemen/Station staff, patrolmen, stationary watchmen, observance of speed limits
by drivers, visibility of signals/ engineering fixed signals/hectometer posts, riding quality etc.
Inspection should preferably be done between 00:00 hrs to 04:00 hrs.
(11) Inspection of AT welding site - The Assistant Engineer shall inspect AT welding site as
much as possible but at least once in a month.
12- Inspection of ongoing works of construction and other organization e.g. RVNL, etc - He
should inspect the works going on in his section as much as possible during Foot plate/Trolley
inspection to check quality and safety of the running trains.
Q. No. 6 As an Assist. Officer at a major accident site what duties as AEN required to perform
and is what sequence.
Ans: - ( a) Protect Train - Any engineering staff available at the site of the accident shall assist
the Guard and Driver to protect the train in accordance with the General & S.Rules.
(b) First aid and Rescue -
(c) Advice to nearest Station Master- After a rapid survey of the position, particulars should be
sent to the nearest Station Master as in(Para 702) above. In case of controlled sections, a field
telephone should be got commissioned at once.
(d) Line Clear examination - If the Engineering official has reached the site and no traffic official
is available he should carefully secure the line clear token or ticket and any caution order, where
necessary. If the accident has occurred in a station yard, the train register book must be seized
and if necessary, statement of staff concerned recorded; if line badges are in use, it should be
recorded as to in whose possession each line badge was. The position of block instruments,
signals, points, point levers, indicators, keys, etc. should be noted and recorded, jointly with the
Inspectors of the other concerned departments, available at site.
(e) Preliminary clearing operation and preservation of clues -
(i) In all instances in which the means taken for the restoration of communication are likely to
obliterate marks on the road and other evidence needed at a joint enquiry, the senior official who
arrives first on the spot should carefully examine the track, train or vehicle and as soon as
possible make notes, sketches etc. and hand over the same to his superior or produce them at the
enquiry. He will, when the nature of the accident is such as will involve the question of eye-sight
of any of the staff, verify (in case of those permitted to wear glasses) that they had worn glasses
at the time of the accident and had carried a spare pair of glasses with them.
(ii) In all cases of accidents, the cause of which might possibly due to sabotage, it is essential that
the clearance and restoration operations are not commenced till the Police officials arrive at the
site and intimate their agreement to the commencement of clearance and restoration work, after,
making thorough investigations.
A factual note of the conditions obtaining at the site prior to restoration work should be prepared
and signed jointly by the senior-most Police and Railway officials at the site. In the event of any
difference of opinion between the Police and the Railway officials, such difference of opinion
may be recorded on the joint factual note.
(iii) In other cases, clearance and restoration operations can commence even before the arrival of
the Police and it is not necessary that all the rails, sleepers and fastenings involved in an accident
should be preserved, but only those, whether serviceable or otherwise, which bear wheel marks,
etc., specially between the points of mount and drop. In all cases of serious derailments, these are