Tag: Railway
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Boys invent ‘train accident alert system’
Four boys of class 11 at the Alipurduar Railway High School near Alipurduar Junction have claimed that they have invented a system that can prevent elephant deaths on railway tracks and railway accidents at unmanned railway gates. The boys have designed a project on the system using magnetic power. The Alipurduar Railway High School displayed...
January 18, 2018 -
Unique project by Uttarakhand Forest Dept: Drones to monitor wildlife corridors
Wild animals get killed on railway tracks on a regular basis throughout India. In the process of crossing the tracks, the animals are hit by rail locomotives. The Uttarakhand forest department has started a pilot project in the Kumoan region to stop wildlife deaths on railway lines, using drones for track surveillance. Drones are being...
January 17, 2018 -
Soon, using railway cloak rooms, lockers to cost more
Soon, passengers who stow their luggage in railway cloak rooms and lockers would have to shell out more for availing the service. The railway board has now empowered Divisional Railway Managers (DRMs) to raise the usage fee for the service at stations. It will soon launch a bidding system to modernise the service, including a...
January 14, 2018 -
Bhogi celebrations smoke hits flight, rail services in Chennai
Early morning smog in the city and its neighbourhoods impacted rail and air traffic, as burning on the occasion of Bhogi affected visibility, officials said. Southern Railway officials said “most” inter-city and inter-state trains arriving here suffered delays of “an average of 30-40 minutes,” while outbound trains ran slow. Suburban rail services were also delayed...
January 13, 2018 -
Drones to monitor Railway projects
Railways will procure drone cameras or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for project monitoring and maintenance of tracks and other railway infrastructure. Drones were used for aerial surveys of the construction going on in the first phase construction of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor between Kanpur and Ludhiana. According to Railways, this will enhance safety and...
January 9, 2018 -
8 trains cancelled for 2 months due to fog: NER official
Owing to onset of fog, the North Eastern Railways (NER) has suspended eight trains from December 1 to February 13, an official said on Monday. These trains include the Agra Intercity, 12179 Lucknow Junction-Agra Cantt Express, 15209 Saharsa-Amritsar Express, 14674 Amritsar-Jainagar Shaheed Express and Lucknow-Anand Vihar Express. NER Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Sanjay Yadav...
November 27, 2017 -
Delhi-Chandigarh 200-kmph rail corridor to cost Rs 11,000 cr: French report
It will cost about Rs 11,000 crore ($1.7 billion) to increase the train speed up to 200 km per hour on the Delhi-Chandigarh route so that a passenger can travel the distance in two hours, according to the draft final report submitted by SNCF, the French railway, to Indian Railways. The 245-km Delhi-Chandigarh corridor, one...
November 26, 2017 -
Tripura Rajdhani Express to New Delhi chugs off from Agartala
Tripura capital Agartala on Saturday was linked with the national capital New Delhi by the Rajdhani Express, becoming the fourth city in northeast India to get the Rajdhani train link. Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain flagged-off the much-awaited Rajdhani Express between Agartala and Delhi’s Anand Vihar station. The regular service will start from...
October 28, 2017 -
Darjeeling toy train starts chugging again on experimental basis
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) or Toy Train has resumed services on an experimental basis on a 35-km track between Siliguri and Sukna, an official said on Sunday. The DHR, which has incurred an estimated loss of Rs 2.5 crore as a fallout of the Gorkhaland agitation, is carrying out inspections along the entire length...
October 15, 2017 -
Suffocating?
Since what transpires at high-level interaction remains under wraps unless intentionally leaked to the media, there is little to worry over the new railway minister’s complaint of feeling “suffocated” at a meeting of the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (which oversees commuter-oriented projects in the western metropolis) at which the construction of elevated rail corridors was...
October 5, 2017 -
Mention MRP on all food items served in trains, instructs Goyal
Following a controversy over a circular of the Railway Board issued last week, listing details to be printed on food packets/casseroles on trains, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has ordered even the MRP of all food items must be printed, an activist said here on Monday. The Railway Board’s circular had listed details like names of...
September 25, 2017 -
78-day productivity-linked bonus for railway staff
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved 78 days’ productivity-linked bonus (PLB) for about 12.30 lakh non-gazetted railway employees, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a press conference later, Jaitley said: “The Cabinet has approved 78 days’ productivity-linked bonus for non-gazetted rail...
September 20, 2017 -
Passenger safety prime focus for railways: Lohani
Newly appointed Chairman of the Railway Board, Ashwani Lohani on Saturday said for the railways the security and safety of passengers was a top focus and of prime importance. In an informal chat with reporters in Allahabad he also said that all was being done to ensure that. He also said the role of trackmen...
September 9, 2017 -
PM will take decision on Suresh Prabhu: Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take a decision on Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s offer to resign in the wake of railway accidents. “Accountability is a good system in government. The Prime Minister will take a decision on the request made by Railway Minister,” Jaitley said when he...
August 23, 2017 -
Utkal derailment: Action taken against Secy-level officer, 7 others
Cracking the whip, the Railways on Sunday sent on leave its three top officials, including a secretary-level Railway Board official, suspended four and transfered one in the wake of Utkal train derailment which appeared to have been caused by negligence The action against the eight officers came hours after Member (Traffic) of the Railway Board,...
August 20, 2017 -
Railway services hit in east India, NE region due to rains
Heavy rainfall over the last 48 hours in West Bengal, Bihar, Assam and other northeastern states has severely hampered railway operations due to waterlogging of tracks in several places of Katihar and Alipurduar Divisions of Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway, officials said on Sunday. An NF Railway release said the situation aggravated on Saturday night when...
August 13, 2017 -
Need to catch up with changing railway technology: Prabhu
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday described tracks as the backbone of Indian Railways and said it is necessary to catch up with the changing technology for better outcomes. "Indian Railways is a very professional organisation that carries out both policy and implementation successfully," Prabhu said. He was addressing the International Technical Seminar on Global...
July 20, 2017