Tag: Indian Railway

  • PM Modi To Flag Off Dehradun-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express Train Tomorrow; Know Timings, Stoppages |

    Prime Minister Modi is all set to virtually inaugurate the Dehradun-Lucknow Vande Bharat train on Tuesday, after which this train will run for the inaugural. The Express will leave from Dehradun at 9:30 am and reach Lucknow at 5.15 pm. 

    The distance between the capitals of the two states, Dehradun and Lucknow, is 545 kilometres, which is now going to be covered in just about 8 hours. The stoppage of the train is proposed at 3 stations which are Haridwar, Moradabad and Bareilly. 

    According to Rajkumar Singh, DRM, Moradabad Railway Division, this train is part of the 10 Vande Bharat trains which is going to be inaugurated by PM Modi on 12th March.  

    “There has been a demand for the Vande Bharat train from Dehradun to Lucknow for a long time, so keeping that demand in mind, its inaugural run will be held tomorrow. Since the train will run regularly, it will run from Lucknow in the morning, reach Dehradun in the afternoon and after one hour, it will return to Lucknow at night, and the purpose of running the Vande Bharat train is to return to its destination in a single day,” DRM Rajkumar Singh said.

    “This Vande Bharat train will run 6 days a week while the train will be kept closed on Monday. It will leave from Lucknow at 5.15 in the morning and will depart from Lucknow in the afternoon. Reached Dehradun at 1.35 pm, after which it will leave Dehradun at 2.25 pm and reach Lucknow at 10.25 pm,” The DRM Muradabad further added. 

    Vande Bharat Express is India’s first semi-high-speed train equipped with world-class passenger amenities. It can achieve high speeds due to faster acceleration and deceleration and will reduce journey time by 25 per cent to 45 per cent.

    According to the Ministry of Railways, the Vande Bharat Express can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like the Shatabdi Train but with better facilities.

  • Indian Railway turns self-reliant: tests collision preventing system ‘Kavach’

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The Indian railway, after years of systematic planning and rounds of track-based trials, has turned self-reliant in preventing head-on collision even when two trains, either out of a possible human error or an abrupt technical failure, come running on the same track.  

    The railway has set off the successful trial and testing of indigenously developed collisions preventing system, colloquially called ‘Kavach’.

    Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, along with Chairman of Railway Board and ministry officials, on Friday, attended a live successful demonstration of an error-free functioning of indigenously developed Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), called ‘Kavach’.

    Furthermore, the Board outlined a plan to take the ‘Kavach’ on a mass scale outside the country as an example of India’s technological advancement and self-reliance.

    Onboarded in an electric loco equipped with ‘Kavach’ for the live demonstration, Vaishnaw said, “Marvellous! Superb! Efficient planning and excellent Execution has made us (Indian Railway) under the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi self-reliant in preventing collision between two trains making the nation Atamnirbhar. That’s great”.

    ‘Kavach’ would be installed across 2000  rail route networks during the current fiscal year of 2022-23 and over 4000-5000 rail route networks in every subsequent year would be brought under this safety system, added Vaishnaw.

    The “Kavach” technology applies the brakes automatically soon after spotting another train coming from the opposite direction on the same track and stops the train at a safe distance.

    As a SIL-4 certified technology, “It also halts the train soon after it jumps the red signal or controls the speed after the train goes beyond the prescribed speed limit,” the minister said.

    “The future plan is to roll it out very rapidly and export it to many other countries,” he said.

    The Kavach has been developed by the Research Design and Standard Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with three other vendors.

    ‘Kavach” has been deployed on over 1,098 route km and 65 locos running under the South Central Railway after successful trial runs.

    ADGPR Railway Rajiv Jain said that the first field trial of this technology was made on a passenger train in 2015-16 and it was declared as the national automatic train protection system for Indian railways in 2020-21.

    He further added that the RDSO has approved it for the routes of 160 kmph train running services.

    “The railway has given priority for installation of Kavach on high-density routes and on New Delhi-Mumbai and New Delhi-Howrah routes for 160kmph speed limit with automatic block signaling and centralised traffic control systems”, pointed out Jain.

    Further, it would be installed on highly used networks with automatic block signalling systems.

  • Delhi-bound Ranchi Rajdhani Express delayed by 25 minutes as sparks spotted in the wheels 

    By Express News Service
    RANCHI: The Delhi-bound  Rajdhani Express from Ranchi was delayed for 25 minutes after a fire was spotted in its wheel at Gangaghat Station on Monday. 

    Senior Railway officials, however, claimed that it was a technical fault that was taken care of by the onboard railway staff.

    According to Chief Public Relations Officer Neeraj Kumar, the train moved further only after the fault was rectified by on-board railway staff.

    “There was some fault in the spring near the wheel of one of the compartments due to which some sparks were spotted by some people. The train was stopped near Gangaghat station which was rectified by the onboard railway staff,” said the CPRO.

    The train proceeded further only after taking care of the fault, he added.

    The CPRO further added that the entire process delayed the train by 25 minutes. The inquiry will be done to look into the actual cause of the spark, he said.

  • Sidhu targets Rlys, asks why loco-pilot was given clean chit in one day

    Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday targeted the Indian Railways, raising several questions about its functioning and asked how a “clean chit” was given to the loco-pilot of the train, which mowed down at least 59 people watching a Dussehra event in Amritsar, in “one day”.

    The statement from Sidhu, whose wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu was the chief guest at the event at Joda Phatak on Friday evening, came a day after Union Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said there was no negligence on part of the railways.

    The railways has said it was not informed by the organisers or the local administration that a Dussehra event was being organised near the tracks. It said Saturday the tragedy was a case of trespassing and ruled out any probe.