What determines when the crew for a loco is changed? What are the hours worked by train crew?
Crew changes usually occur at points where accommodations exist for the crew to wait between working sets, and where the schedules of many or most trains along that route are likely to require a crew change based on the hours the crew has been working. A changeover point is often determined by one or more of the following: • It is a station near a loco shed with sufficient railway quarters • Change of division • Accommodation (‘running room’) is available for transient crew • Duration that drivers will have been working continuously by the time they reach the changeover point On WR, most of the trains change crew at Valsad, one at Surat and the rest at Vadodara. Valsad at 199 kms, is almost half the way on MCT to Vadodara run. Division changes at Surat so Valsad and Vadodara drivers share half the traffic where crew is changed at Valsad. Valsad drivers share half the trains on MCT – Valsad runs, too. The same holds true for Vadodara drivers who share half the trains on Ahmedabad Vadoda
