New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The government has sanctioned a Rs 398.36 crore project to lay optical fibre cable across 1,929 route kilometres in the Ahmedabad and Ratlam divisions of Western Railway, strengthening the communication backbone needed for the rollout of its automatic train protection system Kavach, the Ministry of Railways said on Saturday.According to the government, the project involves laying 2×48 fibre optical fibre cable across 1,456 route kilometres in Ahmedabad division and 473 …
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New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The Indian Railways on Friday commissioned 472.3 route kilometres of Kavach Version 4.0 (Automatic Train Protection System) across three sections of its network, marking another significant milestone in strengthening rail safety.The newly commissioned sections include Vadodara–Virar (344 km) on the Western Railway, Tuglakabad Junction Cabin–Palwal (35 km) on the Northern Railway, and Manpur–Sarmatanr (93.3 km) on the East Central Railway. With this commissioning, I…
Vadodara, Dec 29 (IANS) The Western Railway’s Vadodara division recently commissioned Kavach 4.0, India’s indigenous automatic train protection system, on the Bajwa-Ahmedabad section, equipping all the locomotives with advanced safety features. The state-of-the-art facility will prevent over-speeding, bring the trains to a halt at red signals automatically and also eliminate collision risks with other trains.Shedding light on the safety features, the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Raju Bha…