set wet - Ba Goverament of India Ministry of Railways gga aa Se ere He —_—_‘Resarch Designs & Sundards Organisation HAS ~ 226011 Lucknow -226 011 EPBK (0522) 2451200, iD (0522) 2880115 = Fax (0522) 2488500 Dip (0822) 2465310 No. GE/GEN/185-Vol-I Date: 17.09.2020 All PCEs & CAOs Indian Railways MD, KRCL, Belapur Bhawan, Sector-11, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai-400614 Chairman and MD, IRCON International Limited, C-4, District Center, Saket, New Delhi- 110017 MD, RVNL, Plot No. 25, First Floor, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Kama Place, RK Puram, New Delhi-110066 MD, DFCCIL, 5" floor, Pragati Maidan, Metro Station Building Complex, Delhi-110001 MD, RITES, RITES Bhawan, 1, Sector-29, Gurugram, Haryana-122001 MD, MRVC, Churchgate Station Building, 2" Floor, Mumbai-400020 CAO/Const.), Metro Railway, Mumbai & Chennai Director General, IRICEN Pune Director General, NAIR, Vadodara GM(Engg.), Metro Railway, Kolkata MD/ CONCOR, New Delhi Chief Project officer, DMRC, NBC Building, Pragati Vihar, New Delhi Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety, Lucknow Sub: “Comprehensive Guidelines and Specifications for Railway formation Specification No, RDSO/2020/GE: IRS-0004, Sept.-2020" Ref: Railway Board letter no, 2011/CE-II/Form/Spec dated 14.09.2020. In compliance to Railway Board's instructions, the Comprehensive Guidelines and Specifications for Railway Formation have been prepared by RDSO by merging of various existing guidelines earlier issued by RDSO from time to time & updating/adding of the recent technical developments in related areas including use of Geosynthetics in railway formation. The Guidelines have been approved by Rallway Board vide letter under reference above (copy enclosed). 1, The “Comprehensive Guidelines and Specifications for Railway Formation”, Specification no. RDSO/2020/GE: IRS-0004 consists of 10 Chapters and 14 Appendices, covering various aspects for execution of Earthwork in Indian Railway Formation in Construction and Open Line including Design of formation, Slope Stability Analysis, Applications of Geosynthetics in Formation, Quality assurance tests, Fitment of existing formation for 25T axle load (at 100Kmph) & passenger train operation for 160Kmph etc.2, It will supersede earlier guidelines/instructions for Earthwork issued by RDSO i.e. “Guidelines for Earthwork in Railway Project” GE: G-1, July 2003, “Guidelines and Specifications for Design of Formation for Heavy Axle Load” GE: G-0014 Nov. 2009, RDSO letter no. RS/G/108/Heavy Axle Load dated 19.10.15/26.10.16 and “Rationalisation of Formation Layer Thickness on Indian Railway Track” Specification No. RDSO/2018/GE: IRS-0004(D) Part-IV, July 2019. As per instructions of Railway Board in the letter under reference: 3. North Central Railway & Western Railway are requested to carry out field validation for fitment of existing formation for passenger train operations at 160 kmph and South Eastern Railway & East Coast Railway are requested to carry out field validation for fitment of existing formation for 22.9t/25t axle load operation at 100 kmph. 4. Any deviation in the guidelines/specifications based on logic/local conditions can be permitted with approval of PCE/CAO(C) only. ‘The above mentioned approved Guideline are sent herewith in soft copy for adoption in the field. Provisions in these guidelines will apply to new works. However, the application of these guidelines may be explored in ongoing works also. Any difficulty in adoption of the new specification may please be reported to RDSO. It is also requested that its implementation may please be monitored closely for two years and send feedback to RDSO for improvement, if any. Soft copy of the Comprehensive Guidelines and Specifications has also been uploaded on RDSO ‘Railnet’ website (10.100.2.12) under ‘Geotechnical Engineering Directorate’ under head ‘Guidelines and Specifications’. Hard copies shall be sent in due course. DA: as above. Sa o4 cael Exe. Director/Geotech. Engg. Copy to: PED/CE/P, Railway Board for kind information.‘ATA ATT (GOVERNMENT OF INDIA) ‘Ya HATA (MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS) aa ATE (RAILWAY BOARD) No. 201 1/CE-IV/Form/Spec New Delhi, dated09.2020 Executive Direetor/GE RDSO Lucknow Sub: Comprehensive Guidelines and Specification for Railway Formation Ref! RDSO's letter no. GE/GEN/85/Voll dated 02.07-2090 Vide letter under reference above, the final draft of “Comprehensive Guidefines and Specifications for Railway formation” has been forwarded by RDSO for Board's approval, Having considered the various recommendations of RDSO regarding the above Rustlites. Competent Authority has approved the above final drat for adoption in Seong allways with following decisions on specific issues refered by RDSO . (SN | Specific issues/provisin Board’s decision lines | |) | Fitment of existing railway formation ‘Approved, for 22.9T/25T axle load operations for speed upto 100 kmph and passenger train (193T axle load) operation for | speed upto 160 kmph assuming 350 | |mm ballast cushion and 60 ke rail || section (Appendix-1) 1G | Provisions Tor Gauge | ‘Approved conversion/doubling/Cess repair work | case of existing formation (Chapter | 9) cape ntn Fatd Methods of Formation Rehabilitation ‘Approved. (Chapter 10) | ') | Erosion control of slopes (Chapter 8) | — * Qualiy control of Eathwork ‘Approved with following modifica | (Chapter 7) | * The note marked as “*” of Table 72 to be | modified as under: | “Additionally this test can also be done by | thitd party (Le TIT. NIT, Govt. Labs or any | NABL approved Lab) having testing facilities, | {0 cross check the tesults achieved at site, Frequency of testing in this case shall be decideWapproved at the level of Chief | gineer (Con). In PSUs, frequency of such tests shall_be decided “as per existing | delegations for testing” * In Para 7.4.1.¢, in case of PSU, existing provision of Equivalent authority for —seceptance eriteria shall cont‘SN | Specific issues/provisions of the | Board's decision | guidlines = (vi) | Modified checklist of certification of Approved, | | quality of Earthwork in Railway | Projects (Appendix-M) | Para. for suitability of subsoil i] Para 2.3.5 for Ground Improvement | for expansive soils = | (ix) | Para 2.4.1 for Use of Geo-composite (faeain = ra 2.4.4 for Geo-synthetics encapsulated Stone column for Cross Slope of (xi) | Pe oss _ (xii) Para 3.7 for Soils to be normally nilat}avbider ayes IBY (wifi Table 3.3 to 3.6 regarding filter crite (xiv Chapter 4 regarding applications of Approved. | geo-synthetics in railway formation and Appendix C- specification of geo- synthetic products | oe (xv) | Para 5.1 regarding requirement of ‘Approved. flatter slope = = vi provision ‘Approved. (vil Appendix B of lilustrative Examples ‘Approved. | for providing minimum thickness of Formation Layers | (vill Newly added test procedures for “Approved. | Nuclear Moisture Density Gauge | | Gix] Appendix J regarding Proforma for ‘Approved. | |__| Reporting Unstable Formation | | RDSO shall circulate the final draft to Zonal Railways/PSUs. Zonal Railways/PSUs shall take necessary action for adoption of above guidelines and for closely monitoring the implementation for a period of two years and to furnish feedback/suggestions to RDSO for improvement, if any. North Central Railway & Western Railway are nominated for field validation for fitment of existing formation for passenger train operations at 160 kmph and South Eastern Railway & East Coast Railway for field validation for fitment of existing formation for 22,902St axle load operation at 100 kmph, Any deviation to above guidelines/specifications based on logic/local conditions can be permitted-with approval of PCE/CAQ(C) only. A (Pradeep Naja) "720% Director Civil Engg. (Plg, Railway Board Copy for necessary action to: (@ PCES/AI Zonal Raitw: (ii) CAO(CYAN Zonal Railway (i) MD/KRCL, RVNL, IRCON, DFCCIL, RITES, MRVC.