NEW DELHI: After the Kanchanjungha Express tragedy, railways will come out with a unified subordinate rules in the next 10 days that will specify speed and precautions that loco pilots need to take when there is signal failure in autom-atic signalling sections to avoid misinterpretation by drivers.
The national transporter will prioritise Kavach deployment on such sections (5,000 km) and will also roll out installing of the automatic train protection (ATP) system in 10,000 locos and 9,000 km track from Oct.
Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said tenders for these works will be out in the next three months. The section on which Kavach will be deployed include Mumbai-Chennai and Chennai-Kolkata rail corridors. Vaishnaw said Kavach system will be fully deployed on Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah stretch by March 2025. He added that railways can deploy 4,000 km of the protection system annually.
“With this we will have Kavach installed in half of the locos or train engines,” he said.
Officials added that all new trains will come pre-installed with Kavach 4.0. The system prevents trains from exceeding safe speeds or ‘Passing Signals At Danger’ and automatically controls train’s speed and can apply brakes to prevent accidents, if the pilot fails to do so.
Currently, 1,465 kilometres of railway network have the Kavach system. Medha Servo Drives, HBL Power Systems and Kernex Microsystems are the three firms that have been certified to deploy Kavach.
Vaishnaw also said that the railways will complete the process of required mapping of the 8,000 stations by Dec and a tender will be floated for installation of the devices. Sources said while the focus is on faster deployment of the current version of Kavach, railways is also working on developing Kavach 6.0.
The national transporter will prioritise Kavach deployment on such sections (5,000 km) and will also roll out installing of the automatic train protection (ATP) system in 10,000 locos and 9,000 km track from Oct.
Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said tenders for these works will be out in the next three months. The section on which Kavach will be deployed include Mumbai-Chennai and Chennai-Kolkata rail corridors. Vaishnaw said Kavach system will be fully deployed on Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah stretch by March 2025. He added that railways can deploy 4,000 km of the protection system annually.
“With this we will have Kavach installed in half of the locos or train engines,” he said.
Officials added that all new trains will come pre-installed with Kavach 4.0. The system prevents trains from exceeding safe speeds or ‘Passing Signals At Danger’ and automatically controls train’s speed and can apply brakes to prevent accidents, if the pilot fails to do so.
Currently, 1,465 kilometres of railway network have the Kavach system. Medha Servo Drives, HBL Power Systems and Kernex Microsystems are the three firms that have been certified to deploy Kavach.
Vaishnaw also said that the railways will complete the process of required mapping of the 8,000 stations by Dec and a tender will be floated for installation of the devices. Sources said while the focus is on faster deployment of the current version of Kavach, railways is also working on developing Kavach 6.0.
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