Pune Railway Yard Strengthens Track Infrastructure with Sixth Diamond Layout Upgrade
Pune, 12th October 2026: Central Railway’s Pune Division has completed the conversion of its sixth 52 kg Diamond Layout to 60 kg rail sections in Pune Yard, covering five Double Diamond Crossings and one Single Diamond Crossing.
The latest work involved converting Double Diamond Crossings numbered 253 and 254. An engineering and power block of eight hours and 52 minutes was undertaken from 8.08 am to 5 pm on Sunday, October 11. The block was cleared at 5 pm after the scheduled work was completed.
During the operation, railway personnel replaced eight stock rails and eight tongue rails, along with their fittings. The work also involved replacing two acute-angle crossings, two obtuse-angle crossings, eight approach rails and four lead rails.
In addition, four glued joints were fabricated in situ, while eight prefabricated glued joints were inserted. Two switch motors, along with their rodding arrangements, were also replaced.
Around 150 Permanent Way (P-Way) workers were deployed for the work, supported by a glued-joint team, four blacksmiths, 50 Signalling and Telecommunications (S&T) personnel and eight supervisors. The supervisory team comprised four P-Way and four S&T supervisors.
The work was carried out under the guidance of Central Railway General Manager Rajeev Shrivastava and the direction of Pune Divisional Railway Manager Rajesh Kumar Verma as part of the division’s track infrastructure upgradation programme.
