Train "Eye Doctor" escorts summer transportation safety issues | Time | Eyes
After the typhoon passed in early August, Shanghai once again experienced high temperatures. After a long period of exposure to sunlight, the temperature of the railway tracks exceeded 50 ℃. In the heat wave, a group of railway signal workers wearing yellow work uniforms bent down and squatted between the tracks, their work uniforms on their backs soaked in deep yellow sweat.
"The turnout should be square, the locking rod, action rod, and connecting rod should be kept in a straight line, and the gap adjustment should be pre adjusted according to weather changes and equipment status..." One person reminded others while keeping their eyes fixed on the operation process, sweat dripping down their cheeks.
This person is Ye Qiupei, Deputy Director of Nanxiang Workshop at Shanghai Electric Power Section of China Railway Shanghai Group Co., Ltd. Due to both his father and grandfather being railway workers, he grew up by the railway tracks and watched the changing signal lights every day as trains came and went. My father told him that the forward, deceleration, or stopping of trains all rely on signal equipment for transmission, so railway signal equipment is called the "eyes" of trains.
In 2008, Ye Qiupei was admitted to Nanjing Railway Vocational and Technical College and chose the Railway Communication and Signal major. After graduation, he became a railway signal worker who polished his eyes for trains, providing daily consultations, treatment, and testing for signal equipment to ensure the safety of train operation.
When he first started working, Ye Qiupei found that he had learned a lot of theoretical knowledge in school, but he appeared to be a hero with no practical application. Especially when encountering some difficult and complicated diseases, I always feel flustered. Therefore, he repeatedly studied common equipment problems, found solutions, and actively sought advice from senior employees. Gradually, I also came up with some tricks - "We must achieve the 'three essences' - precision, precision, and precision." These six words were written on the homepage of Ye Qiupei's work log and have been engraved in his heart.
The meticulous maintenance quality to the millimeter level and the rigorous work attitude close to obsessive-compulsive disorder have become Ye Qiupei's "label" and have also made him the "calming needle" in everyone's hearts, praised as the "ophthalmologist" guarding train safety.
Once, Shanghai Station needed to replace 22 switch machines, and the skylight point only took 3 hours, with a total of 18 people participating in the operation. That is to say, on average, a switch machine needs to be replaced every half hour. Before construction, Ye Qiupei held a pre construction meeting to prepare contingency plans for potential problems that may arise during construction: how to quickly identify the wrong points if the wiring of the switch machine is incorrect, and what to do if the gap monitoring and adjustment of the newly installed switch machine are not in place
The construction lasted only 3 hours, and Ye Qiupei was present throughout the entire process, not neglecting every detail. The noise of construction machinery rose higher and higher, while Ye Qiupei's voice was even louder: "The screws must be in place! The screws inside and outside the switch machine must be rechecked to be in place!"
In December 2021, Ye Qiupei took up a management position and consistently adhered to the concept of "three essences". The Nanxiang workshop where he is located is responsible for the maintenance and repair of signal equipment in 13 sections of the Shanghai Kunming, Beijing Shanghai, Shanghai Suzhou Tong and other railway lines. The number of equipment is large and the types are complete. Among them, the Nanxiang up and down marshalling yard has a total of 44 marshalling tracks, with a daily marshalling capacity of about 8000 vehicles.
The power of one person is limited, but the power of a group of people has infinite possibilities. After Ye Qiupei arrived at the workshop, he immediately formed an equipment rectification team and led the business backbone to conduct a thorough investigation and numbering of 702 sets of turnouts, 917 signals, and 1094 track circuit sections in the workshop, establishing a "health record".
"The workload is quite large, but once this detailed and solid 'health record' is formed, once equipment failure occurs, we can quickly 'prescribe the right medicine', greatly improving the quality and efficiency of management," said workshop engineer Ren Ke
