ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

 

South Coast Railway is the newly formed 18th zone of the Indian Railways with its Headquarters office at Visakhapatnam. It has been created duly carving out 3 Divisions of South Central Railway namely Vijayawada, Guntur, Guntakal and by adding the truncated part of existing WAT division of ECoR and that portion of KUR division of ECoR falling within geographical boundary of Andhra Pradesh, duly renaming as Visakhapatnam Division.

97.75% track of SCoR jurisdiction falls within the state of Andhra Pradesh. Remaining 2.25% of the Route Km is spread over adjacent states (Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu). It has 3532.407 Route Km and 6455.436 Track Kms on Group A, B and D routes. This zone has 1472 Km of 130 Kmph running track (i.e. 41.7% of total Route Km).

There are 385 Railway Stations including 02 numbers of NSG1 Stations (VSKP, BZA). SCoR Rail Network serves four Freight handling ports — Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Krishnapatnam and Kakinada.

There are 13,512 Bridges over SCoR network. Out of them 36 are Important Bridges which include the Godavari Bridges (Road-cum-Rail bridge, Bowstring Arch bridge) at Rajahmundry, & Krishna Bridge at Vijayawada along with 1101 Major Bridges and 12,351 Minor Bridges. The Godavari rail bridges in Rajahmundry are engineering marvels — they include the historic Havelock bridge (de-commissioned), the Godavari Arch Bridge (a bowstring arch rail bridge) and the Godavari Bridge, one of Asia’s longest continuous Road-cum-Rail Bridges, with a length of 2.79 Km on river Godavari. SCoR track network also consists of the 6.6 Km longest tunnel in the Krishnapatnam – Obulavaripalli line.

                         

We have a Track Machine Workshop at Rayanapadu with in-house POH facility caters to the track machine needs of SCoR, SCR, ECoR, SWR and SR.

We, the Engineering branch of SCoRly maintain the safety of track, yard layouts and bridges. We also maintain station buildings, passenger amenities and other service buildings right from Ichapuram in East to Haddinagundu near Ballary in West, Motumarri in North to Bommasamudram in South.  S Co Rly track follows entire Circar coast (Ichapuram to Kakinada) and Coromandel Coast (Kakinada to Gudur) connecting the ports to the hinterland., for a length of 896Km on the coast.

South Coast Railways’ Engineering Department owns the responsibility of continuous improvement, maintenance and safeguard of all permanent assets spread over its jurisdiction.

Scheduled inspections and systematic preventive maintenance of permanent way as well as of major/important bridges and strengthening of infrastructure are given high priority to reduce service interruptions and to improve the long-term performance of civil engineering assets. In addition to, the department manages railway land, water supply & drainage networks, station/passenger amenities, contributing towards smooth trains operations as well as better customer interaction experience

Construction wing of SCoR shoulders the responsibility of implementing new infrastructure development works with in the jurisdictions of SCoR such as planning, survey and construction of new lines, doubling and multi tracking of existing tracks, stations’ development, line capacity improvements, yard modernization projects etc., Engineering department is responsible for carrying out all these activities within the prescribed engineering specifications, duly ensuring the safety of running trains to achieve the targets.

Construction wing of S Co Rly has vowed to adopt advanced construction techniques and environment friendly maintenance practices thus supporting sustainable development of the railway system. Through continuous innovation, assessment and coordination with other branches, the Team Engineering helps in reliability, safety and future readiness of the South Coast Railway network.

1.  State-wise Route Length of Rail Network

The major Route Km (97.75%) passes through Andhra Pradesh followed by Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

S.N	State	Route Km	%
1	Andhra Pradesh	3453.00	97.75
2	Karnataka	47.03	1.34
3	Telangana	25.51	0.72
4	Tamilnadu	6.86	0.19
	Total	3532.407	100.00

 

2.  Division-wise Route Km and Track Km

The major Route Km passes through Guntakal Division, followed by Vijayawada, Guntur and Visakhapatnam Division.

S.N	Division	Route Km	%	Track Km
1	Visakhapatnam	460.767	12.89	979.546
2	Vijayawada	1111.114	31.10	2409.05
3	Guntur	613.710	17.18	883.50
4	Guntakal	1346.82	38.81	2183.33
	Total	3532.407		6455.43

 

3.  Group-wise Classification (in Km)

SCoR has major portion of Group B Route, followed by Group D and Group A.

S.N	Division	Group A	Group B	Group D	Total
1	VSKP	—	266.458	194.309	460.767
2	BZA	355.960	498.358	256.796	1111.114
3	GNT	—	415.480	198.231	613.711
4	GTL	—	908.360	438.455	1346.815
	TOTAL	355.960	2088.656	1087.791	3532.407

 

4.  List of Bridges

There are 13,512 Bridges in SCoR. Details are as follows:

SN	Division	Important (Mega)	Major	Minor	Total
1	VSKP	4	187	2698	2889
2	BZA	11	400	4152	4563
3	GNT	3	147	1207	1357
4	GTL	18	370	4315	4703
	Total	36	1101	12351	13512

 

The longest bridge (2789 m length) is on River Godavari at Rajahmundry.

 

SCoR will be operational from 01.06.2026. Achievements of SCoR will be updated from 01.06.2026.

 

Ongoing projects, specifically those involving infrastructure setup targeted in FY 2026-27:

Targeted Works — Open Line

S.No	Name of the Work	Unit	Target 2026-27
1	CTR	Km	534.11
2	TRR(P)	Km	511.77
3(i)	Deep Screening Plain Track	Km	447.55
3(ii)	Deep Screening of Turnouts	Nos	370
4(i)	LC Elimination — RUB/LHS	Nos	32
4(ii)	LC Elimination — ROBs	Nos	1
5(i)	Speed Enhancement up to 130 Kmph	Km	161.26
5(ii)	Speed Enhancement up to 110 Kmph	Km	180.18

 

Targeted Works — Construction Organisation (Track Length in Km)

S.No	Name of Project	Block Section	Target 2026-27
1	3rd and 4th Line between VSKP and GPT	3rd and 4th line b/w VSKP-GPT	12.04
2	SCMN North and GPT Yard Remodelling for removal of diamond crossing	SCMN Yard Re-Modelling	3.00
3	4th Line between Kothavalasa – Vizianagaram	KTV-KPL	7.749
4	VZM-TIG 3rd Line	3rd Line: DNV-GTLM	35.76
5		VZM-NML Bypass	8.63
6		VZM-GTLM	5.65
7	Nadikudi – Srikalahaasti NL	NL: Kanigiri-Pamuru	24.00
8	Bye Pass at BZA	Bypass (Gunadala-Mustabad)	6.55
9	GNT-GTL Doubling	Doubling (GZL-NDL)	15.00
10	Bypass at BZA	Bypass (Rayanapadu-BZA N Cabin)	10.03
11	Gooty-Pendakal Doubling	Doubling (PDL-RMPL)	9.60
12		RMPL-GY	19.62
13	Bypass RU, GY, WD	RU Bypass	1.50
	TOTAL		159.129 Km