AUTOMATIC SIGNALLING SYSTEM

The letter specifically mentions three trains - train number 20171/20172 (New Delhi-Rani Kamalapati Vande Bharat Express), 22470/22469 (Hazrat Nizamuddin-Khajuraho Vande Bharat Express) and train number 12049/12050 (New Delhi-Virangana Lakshmibai Jh...

The East Central Railway (ECR) has suspended the T/A 912 written authority letter for train drivers to cross signals in case of automatic signal failure. The decision was taken at a safety meeting, following a Kanchanjunga Express-goods train collis...

According to the report, the derailment of the Kanchanjungha Express may have been due to the goods train's loco pilot disregarding a stop signal and operating at excessive speed. Notably, the Chief Loco Inspector (CLI) dissented from this assessmen...

The Railway Ministry faced criticism for delays in implementing the Automatic Train Protection System, Kavach, developed by RDSO. The Agra division has successfully implemented Kavach on an 80-km stretch for trials. Jaya Verma Sinha and railway offi...

The Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety-Northeast Frontier Railways, Janak Kumar Garg, has begun an investigation into the Kanchanjunga Express accident, which resulted in 10 deaths. The investigation will begin in the afternoon, and the Station Ma...

In West Bengal, a defective automatic signalling system between Ranipatra Railway Station and Chattar Hat Junction led to the collision between the Sealdah Kanchanjungha Express and a goods train. Despite the station master issuing TA 912 for the ex...

Kanchanjungha Express Train Accident: A goods train collided with the Kanchanjungha Express collided near New Jalpaiguri, resulting in several deaths and over 60 injuries. The incident highlighted the absence of the railway's anti-collision system, ...

Train Accident Today (Google Trends): The recent collision of a goods train with the Kanchanjungha Express in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, has raised concerns about railway safety. Similar to the Coromandel Express disaster in June 2023, signal...

The goods train that rammed into the Kanchanjunga Express between Ranipatra Railway Station and Chattar Hat Junction in West Bengal on Monday was allowed to cross all red signals as the automatic signalling had "failed", internal documents show. The...

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The Agra railway division successfully tested an automatic braking system installed in eight-car Vande Bharat trains as part of the 'Kavach' anti-collision device. In the trial, the train automatically stopped 10 meters before a red signal at a spee...

Kavach—which has been deployed in 1,465 route km on South Central Railway (Telangana: 684 km, Andhra Pradesh: 66 km , Karnataka: 117 km, Maharashtra: 598 km)—is a combination of devices that prevents the loco pilot or train driver from jumping signa...

In the aftermath of the tragic collision between two trains in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, resulting in the loss of at least 14 lives, the Railway Board has taken swift action to enhance safety measures. The board has directed all railway zones to ini...

​rime Minister Narendra Modi had flagged off the first Namo Bharat train on a 17-km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS between Sahibabad and Duhai Depot on Friday. "The European Train Control System (ETCS) signalling system will not only facilitate in...

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have partnered to develop an indigenous communication-based train control (i-CBTC) system. The team will work at the i-CBTC lab of DMRC and will develop and deploy a protot...

Rajya Sabha was also informed that the automatic train protection system, Kavach, has so far been deployed on 1,465 route km and 121 locomotives (including Electric Multiple Unit rakes) in the South Central Railway. Kavach tenders have been awarded ...

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The Indian Railways’ automatic train protection system, “Kavach,” developed by the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) to boost train safety, has come into the spotlight following a train collision which resulted in over 288 deaths and...