Rail Wheel Factory

Rail Wheel Factory, Yelahanka (RWF) (also known as Wheel and Axle Plant) is a manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, producing wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of Indian Railways and overseas customers is situated at Yelahanka, Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka.

The unit was started by C. K. Jaffer Sharief, the then Railway Minister, who got this project to Bangalore. It was commissioned in 1984 to manufacture wheels and axles for the Indian Railways.

This factory uses cast steel technology in the manufacturing of wheels which utilizes scrap steel collected from Railways' own workshops as raw material. The products (Wheels, Axles and wheel sets) are engineered with little scope for human errors. It has a planned capacity to manufacture of about 70,000 wheels of different sizes, 23,000 axles and to assemble 23,000 wheel sets. It employs over 2000 personnel and has an annual turnover of about 82 crores. It is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 certified unit for its business processes. It was the first unit of Indian Railways to receive ISO 9001:2008 accreditation.^[1]

See also

• Banaras Locomotive Works, Varanasi
• Diesel Locomotive Factory, Marhowrah
• Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Asansol
• Electric Locomotive Factory, Madhepura
• Integral Coach Factory, Chennai
• Modern Coach Factory, Raebareli
• Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala
• Rail Wheel Plant, Bela
• Titagarh Wagons, Titagarh
• List of locomotive builders by countries

References

13°06′05″N 77°35′15″E / 13.10149°N 77.58755°E / 13.10149; 77.58755

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Indian Railways

Authority

• Ministry of Railways
• Rail Bhavan
• Railway Board

Related
organisations

• Central Organisation for Modernisation of Workshops (COFMOW)
• Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE)
• Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
• Commission of Railway Safety (CRS)
• Container Corporation of India (CCI)
• Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL)
• High Speed Rail Corporation of India Limited (HSRI)
• Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
• Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC)
• Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC)
• Ircon International (IRCON)
• Konkan Railway Corporation (KRC)
• Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC)
• National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL)
• Passenger Amenities Committee (PAC)
• Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES)
• Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA)
• Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL)
• RailTel
• Railway Protection Force (RPF)
• Railway Recruitment Control Board (RRCB)
• Railways Sports Promotion Board (RSPB)
• Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO)

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• ICF coach
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• Bullet train (Future)

Manufacturing
units

• BEML Limited
• Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
• Bharat Wagon and Engineering
• Braithwaite & Co.
• Burn Standard Company
• Banaras Locomotive Works
• Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
• Diesel Locomotive Factory
• Patiala Locomotive Works
• Electric Locomotive Factory
• Integral Coach Factory
• Marathwada Rail Coach Factory
• Modern Coach Factory
• Rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala)
• Rail Coach Factory (Sonipat)
• Rail Wheel Factory
• Rail Wheel Plant
• Titagarh Wagons

Railway
depots

Diesel Loco	Abu Road Alambagh Andal Bandra Bardhaman Bhagat Ki Kothi Bokaro Steel City Bondamunda Coonoor Ernakulam Erode Gandhidham Golden Rock Gonda Gooty Guntakal Howrah Hubli Itarsi Izzatnagar Jamalpur Jhansi Kalka Kalyan Kazipet Kharagpur Krishnarajapuram Kurla Ludhiana Lumding Malda Town Maula Ali Mhow Motibagh Mughalsarai New Guwahati City New Katani Patratu Pratapnagar Pune Raipur Ratlam Sabarmati Samastipur Shakurbasti Siliguri Tondiarpet Tughlakabad Vatva Vijayawada Visakhapatnam
Electric Loco	Ajni Angul Arakkonam Asansol Barauni Bhilai Bhusawal Bilaspur Bokaro Steel City Bondamunda Erode Ghaziabad Gomoh Gorakhpur Guntakal Howrah Ispat Nagar Itarsi Jhansi Kalyan Kanpur Katni Kazipet Khanalampura Lallaguda Ludhiana Mughalsarai Nagpur Rourkela Royapuram Saharanpur Saiyedpur Bhitri Tatanagar Tughlakabad Vadodara Valsad Vijayawada Visakhapatnam
Steam Loco	Coonoor Rewari
Multiple Unit	DEMU/DMU Bangalore Budgam Gondia Jalandhar Jamalpur Motibagh Maula Ali Shakurbasti Vijayawada EMU Avadi Bandel Barasat Ghaziabad Howrah Kalwa Kandivali Kharagpur Kurla Maula Ali Mumbai Central Narkeldanga Panskura Ranaghat Saharanpur Sanpada Sonarpur Tambaram Tikiapara Velachery Virar MEMU Asansol Bhilai Kanpur Kollam Palakkad Rajahmundry Vadodara Kolkata Metro Noapara Tollygunge New Garia Central Park Joka

Lines

Main	Chennai–Bangalore Howrah–Prayagraj–Mumbai Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai Howrah–Chennai Howrah–Delhi Howrah–Gaya–Delhi Mumbai–Chennai New Delhi–Chennai New Delhi–Mumbai
Suburban	Chennai MRTS Chennai Suburban Delhi Suburban Pune Suburban Hyderabad MMTS Kolkata Suburban Mumbai Suburban
Mountain	Darjeeling Kalka-Shimla Nilgiri

Passenger
trains

High-Speed	Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train (Under Construction) Vande Bharat Sleeper train (Upcoming)
Semi-High speed	Amrit Bharat Express Duronto Express Gatimaan Express Tejas Express Rajdhani Express Shatabdi Express Vande Bharat Express
Premium	AC Express AC Double Decker Express Humsafar Express Uday Express
Express	Antyodaya Express Garib Rath Express Intercity Express Jan Sadharan Express Jan Shatabdi Express Mahamana Express Sampark Kranti Express Suvidha Express Rajya Rani Express Vivek Express Yuva Express
Luxury	Deccan Odyssey Fairy Queen Golden Chariot Mahaparinirvan Express Maharajas' Express Palace on Wheels Ramayana Express Royal Orient Royal Rajasthan on Wheels Village on Wheels
Special	Lifeline Express Red Ribbon Express Science Express
Others	Passenger trains

Stations

Major	Chennai Chennai Central Chennai Egmore Tambaram Delhi Delhi Jn. Hazrat Nizamuddin New Delhi Kolkata Howrah Howrah South Sealdah Mumbai Dadar Kalyan Jn. Mumbai Central Mumbai CSMT Mumbai LTT Panvel Others Ahmedabad Jn. KSR Bengaluru Patna Jn. Pune Jn. Secunderabad Jn. Surat Thane
Others	Junctions Metro Vande Metro (Upcoming commuter rail)

Training
institutes

• Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering (IRICEN)
• Indian Railways Institute of Electrical Engineering (IRICEE)
• Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (IRIMEE)
• Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET)
• Indian Railways Track Machine Training Center (IRTMTC)
• National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR)
• National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI)
• Jagjivan Ram Railway Protection Force Academy (JRRPFA)

Trade unions

• All India Railwaymen's Federation (AIRF)
• All India Station Masters' Association (AISMA)
• Konkan Railway Corporation Employees Union (KRCEU)

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• Train Warning System
• Urban Rail Transit

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