Railway Materials and Stores Rules and Rates PDF

Okay, here is the conversion of the document into a structured markdown format based on the OCR results. # CHAPTER XV ## RULES AND RATES FOR THE CARRIAGE OF RAILWAY MATERIALS AND STORES **Rules and Conditions of Carriage of Railway Material and Stores** **1501.** Except where otherwise provided f...

Okay, here is the conversion of the document into a structured markdown format based on the OCR results. # CHAPTER XV ## RULES AND RATES FOR THE CARRIAGE OF RAILWAY MATERIALS AND STORES **Rules and Conditions of Carriage of Railway Material and Stores** **1501.** Except where otherwise provided for in this Chapter, the rules and conditions of carriage of railway materials and stores are the same as for public traffic. ### Rates for Railway Materials and Stores by Goods Train **1502.** Railway materials and stores for construction, revenue or stock purposes (excluding coal, coal shale, coke, lignite, and patent fuel and dangerous goods) are charged at the rates notified in the IRCA Goods Tariff Part 1, Vol. II at owner's risk both in local and in through booking. For wagon loads, the basis of charge will be the number of wagons used at the starting stations. Six-wheeled and bogie wagons will be charged as for 1.50 and two 4-wheeled wagons respectively. ### Rates for Railway Coal, Coal Shale, Coke, Lignite and Patent Fuel **1503.** Coal, Coal shale, Coke (soft, hard, domestic) and lignite and patent Fuel in wagon loads at owner's risk for use by Government's Railway will be charged at rates notified in the IRCA, Goods Tariff, Part I, Vol. II. ### Rates for Railway Materials and Stores at Railway Risk **1504.** The railway risk rates are 20 per cent higher than the owner's risk rates. ### Dangerous Goods, etc. **1505.** All Dangerous Goods and Specie and Bullion are charged at Public Tariff rates. **1506.** The rates for the carriage of railway materials and stores also apply to materials for railway surveys and stores belonging to the Railway Catering Department. **1507.** The distance for charge, such as, inflated kilometrages and minimum distance for charge, will be the same as for public goods traffic. ### Loading and Unloading of Railway Materials and Stores **1508.** Loading and unloading of railway materials and stores are required to be done by consignors and consignees respectively in the following cases: (i) Goods consigned loose or in bulk; (ii) Consignments charged at the rates applicable to wagon loads; (iii) Heavy machinery, long timber and other heavy articles weighing one tonne and over per piece; (iv) Traffic booked to and from sidings. **Note:** If in exceptional circumstances the loading and unloading are done by the station staff in the above cases, the Indenting Officer concerned should be debited with the loading and unloading charges at the rates paid for such work. All other traffic in railway materials and stores is required to be loaded and unloaded by the station staff. ### Routing of traffic in Railway Materials and Stores **1509.** The rules for the routine of Public Goods Traffic also apply to traffic in Railway materials and stores. Charges for Private and Railway Sidings **1510.** A standard siding charge of Rs. 18 per 4-wheeled wagon (B. G. and M. G.) is levied on railway materials and stores booked to or from private and railway sidings at rates applicable to railway materials and stores. In the case of smalls, the standard siding charge will be Re. 1 per quintal subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 2 per consignment. ### Authority for Despatch **1511.** The rates for railway materials and stores apply subject to the conditions that the stores, materials etc. are for the use of an Indian Government Railway and are consigned by and to officials of the Indian Government Railways in their official capacity authorised and accompanied by Railway Material Consignment Notes. ### Rates for Ballast Trains **1512.** Charges for ballast trains are levied on the following basis: (1) Engine Hire charges.—Rs. 653 per engine per hour subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 6530 per day for B.G.; and Rs. 560 per engine per hour subject to a minimum charge of Rs. 5600 per day for MG/NG. The above charges arc applicable to steam, diesel and electric engines. (ii) Hire charges for stock including brake-vans. At the I.R.C.A. conference rates of hire for wagons, (iii) Cost of staff. -No separate charge to be recovered. **Note:** (1) The charges notified above apply only to Ballast trains run on departmental account. If. in exceptional circumstances. Ballast trains are used for carriage of contractors' materials and for materials required for 'Deposit Works', charge will be recovered at Public Tariff rates. (2) Charges will be billed as laid down in para 1466 Ε. (3) Hire on stock is not leviable on departmentally owned wagons. (4) The rates of siding charges mentioned in para 1510 and for Ballast Trains mentioned in Para 1512 are subject to revision by the Railway Board from time to time. The rates in force at the time of booking as notified by the Railway Board should be charged. ### Booking of Railway Materials and Stores by Passenger Train **1513.** Railway materials and stores may be accepted for booking by passenger train subject to the weight not exceeding 2 quintals. Consignments weighing more than 2 quintals should ordinarily be sent by goods train, but in emergent cases, this limit may be relaxed., When conveyance is by passenger trains, charges are to be levied at the Public Tariff rates. ### Wharfage/Demurrage Charges **1514.** All consignments of railway materials and stores are subject to the same conditions in respect of Wharfage and Demurrage as are applicable to public traffic. ### Free carriage of Railway Materials, Stores and Publications etc. **1515.** The following items of railway materials, stores and publications etc. will be carried free: (a) By Passenger or Goods train: (i) Articles intended for inspection at the I.R.C.A. Office or the Headquarters of a Railway, (ii) Packages containing I.R.C.A. publications consigned by or to the General Secretary, I.R.C.A. (iii) Packages containing tariffs, time-tables, rate lists, etc. consigned by one railway administration to another. (iv) Packages containing railway publications intended for sale to the public consigned by any railway administration to authorized bookstall agents at stations on the same or other railways, as well as unsold publications returned by bookstall agents to the owning railways. (v) Small consignments of railway materials weighing less than 20 kilograms and special items, such as, official covers, wagon covers and ropes. (vi) Water supplied to staff, (vii) Materials sent for repair of damaged rolling stock and stationary pumps. (viii) Any material returned to the owning railway by mutual agreement; non-standard wheels and axles returned to the owning railway and damaged vehicles hauled back to the owning railway, if returned unloaded. (ix) Articles left behind and sent in completion of consignments, (x) Articles sent to make good consignments found short or missing. (b) By Passenger trains only: (i) Carriage of ticket bags and boxes for supply to stations from the Printing Department, (ii) Traffic Accounts Department bags containing collected tickets, (iii) Loaded and returned empty cash safes. **1516.** Detailed rules on the procedure for booking and delivery of consignments of Railway Materials and Stores appear in the Indian Railway Commercial Manual.