Wagon Pool
Wagon
pool is an arrangement by which all wagons, except exempted by DWI, shall be
made available for loading to any station. Individual railways own wagons in IR
and thus wagon pool requires pooling of wagons of all the Zonal Railways. The
utilization of wagons involves inter-railway movement and hence utilization of
wagon pool is controlled and supervised by the DWI.
POOLED AND NON-POOLED WAGONS:
As
various railway companies had evolved their own wagon designs, a wagon of lone
railway system might not be considered safe or up to the standard by another railway
company. To get over this
