of the wagon fleet.
Advanced designs of wagons with metal
sheathing, metal floor and sides appeared at that
time, and the direction for the development and
application of anticorrosive materials began to
develop.
2 ORGANIZATION OF
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN
THE FIELD OF WAGON
FLEET PRESERVATION
In order to solve the issue of preventing damage to
wagons at the end of the 60s of the last century, the
All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Transport
of the Central Research Institute of the Ministry of
Railways (now VNIIZHT JSC) began work on
creating a standard for ensuring the preservation of
the wagon fleet during shunting and loading and
unloading operations. This standard was called
GOST 22235-1976 "Freight cars for 1520 mm gauge
main line railways. General requirements for
preservation during loading and unloading and
shunting operations" (GOST 22235-1976, 2000).
This GOST established the basic terms and
definitions characterizing the damage to the wagon
during its operation. A group of railway scientists
under the leadership of the head of the laboratory of
wagons of the Ural Branch of the Central Research
Institute of the Ministry of Railways, Candidate of
Technical Sciences Senderov, G.K., developed the
basic principles of ensuring the preservation of
wagons. For these purposes, studies, calculations,
tests were carried out, since each figure included in
the standard required confirmation. Thus, the works
of S.A. Drugal are devoted to the development of
systems for unloading frozen cargo and
requirements for them, the works of V.V. Zubarev -
to the rules of cargo transportation, the works of
M.Yu. Pashkevich - to the reliability of wagon
designs, the works of A.P. Stupin, M.L.
Kamenomost, V.S. Usov, V.V. Kolomiichenko,
S.G. Ivanov and other scientists - to maintenance
issues (Drugal, 1974; Zubarev, 1968;
Kolomiychenko, 1980).
The above-mentioned studies cover a wide
range of issues related to the organization and
management of the preservation of the wagon fleet
for a period of almost 40 years, i.e. up to the
moment when the division of the railway
transportation market took place.
Already after the beginning of the reform of
railway transport, in order to streamline the
relationship between the owners (operators) of
rolling stock, the owner of infrastructure,
stevedores (owners of non-public tracks), as well as
the wagon repair complex, attempts were made to
process the regulatory documents in force at
Russian Railways JSC. In 2010, under the guidance
of the authors of this study, the standard for the
preservation GOST 22235-2010 was revised
(GOST 22235-2010, 2011), and later, in 2019,
VNIIZHT JSC developed a standard for the
organization of a non-profit partnership
"Association of Manufacturers of Railway
Equipment" (OPZHT NP) (STO OPZHT 00.000-
2018), aimed at streamlining relationships within
the organization.
To date, there is a situation in the industry when
the requirements for the manufacture of new
wagons, the operation of railway rolling stock are
regulated by technical regulations (Technical
regulations of the Vehicle, 2011) and Railway
Operating Rules (Rules of technical operation of
railways of the Russian Federation, 2019), and the
requirements for preservation are voluntary.
There is a need to analyze statistical information,
control the production activities of enterprises, and
develop effective solutions for organizing the
continuous process of preserving the wagon fleet.
3 ANALYSIS OF THE DAMAGE
OF FREIGHT CARS ON THE
RAILWAY NETWORK OF
RUSSIAN RAILWAYS JSC
The losses of participants in the railway
transportation market from damage to wagons on
non-public tracks and during shunting work are
enormous. And although in recent years there has
been a tendency to reduce the number of damaged
wagons, the overall dynamics of the growth of
damaged wagons in the conditions of structural
reform of railway transport remains at the level of 80
- 100 thousand damaged wagons annually. Thus,
according to the management of the carriage
economy of Russian Railways JSC,
if in 2005 - 17,155 wagons were damaged on the
railway network, 2007 - 43,500, 2010 - 57,806, then
in 2013 - 118,380 cases were recorded. Currently,
the situation has stabilized (Table 2), remaining at
the level of 70-80 thousand wagons (Sverdlov,
2021).