The Agra railway division on Friday efficiently examined an computerized braking system put in in eight-car Vande Bharat trains as a part of the indigenously developed anti-collision gadget ‘Kavach’, an official stated. “Within the first-ever trial, the loco pilot didn’t apply the brakes and nonetheless the practice, working at a pace of 160 kmph, routinely stopped 10 metres earlier than the purple sign. This parameter will now be freezed for all eight-car Vande Bharat trains throughout the nation,” Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava informed PTI. All Vande Bharat trains are fitted with a ‘Kavach’ system which might apply brakes by itself in case the loco pilot fails to do it as a consequence of any cause.
Since this method wants a number of different elements equivalent to station Kavach, RFID tags all through the observe size and Kavach towers alongside the tracks to work concurrently, the Indian Railways is within the technique of implementing these elements throughout its community to reinforce operational security.
Below the supervision of Kush Gupta, Deputy Chief Sign and Telecommunication Engineer, North Central Railway zone, the trial began at 9:30 within the morning between Mathura and Palwal and the entire train was repeated in each up and down instructions until 2 within the afternoon.
Srivastava stated that the train will now be finished for 16-car Vande Bharat trains.
Earlier than this trial, the Agra division, below the supervision of Gupta, efficiently carried out two extra Kavach trials at 140 kmph and 160 kmph for different mail and categorical trains.
The Agra division has developed a whole Kavach community on the 80-km stretch between Mathura (excluding the station) and Palwal.
This entails the position of RFID tags on railway tracks in station areas and different locations, set up of stationary Kavach items at a number of locations equivalent to stations, and set up of towers and antennas alongside the tracks.
The Kavach system, developed by the Analysis Designs and Requirements Organisation (RDSO), can apply brakes routinely in case of an emergency when a practice driver fails to behave in time.
Based on RDSO officers, a 125-km stretch in three components between Delhi and Agra is the one stretch throughout all the rail community the place trains can run at a most pace of 160 kmph.
Trains run at a most pace of 130 kmph on all different sections in India.
The particular observe was laid right here for India’s first semi-high pace practice Gatimaan Specific, which was launched in April 2016.
