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Indian Railway is planning to implement an Automatic Train Protection system on its entire 68000 KM of Broad Gauge (BG) route in a planned and phased manner. As per officials, this system will play a pivotal role in speeding and signalling for train safety in the coming future.  What is Automated Train Protection? The automatic Train Protection (ATP) System is a system that controls the movements of Trains and plays a critical role in Train Safety. In this system signaller or automatic system is responsible for setting non-conflicting and safe routes for trains.  There are two principles behind this system Train detection, Train protection system and movement authority. Train protection system uses 3 parts to safeguard operations.   Signalling Automatic Train Protection and  Traffic Management This system requires high-speed internet to function. As recently Indian railway has got 4G spectrum approved by Cabinet recently. Which will help Indian Railway to adopt more and more technology

The Ministry of Railways has on a mission mode to fully intend on changing Indian Railways into Green Railways by 2030. The Ministry of Railways has taken various significant drives towards alleviation of a worldwide temperature alteration and fighting environmental change.  Rail line Electrification, improving the energy productivity of trains and prepares and fixed establishments, green accreditation for establishments/stations, fitting bio-latrines in mentors and changing to inexhaustible wellsprings of energy are portions of its procedure of accomplishing net-zero fossil fuel byproduct.  Indian Railways has finished a jolt of in excess of 4 0,000 Route km (RKM) (63% of Broad Gauge courses) in which 18,605 km zap work has been finished during 2014-20. Beforehand, just 3,835 km jolt work was finished during the period 2009-14. Indian Railways has fixed an objective of the jolt of 7000 RKM for the year 2020-21.  All courses on Broad Gauge (BG) network have been intended to be charged

In the entire locomotive Pantograph is the most costly item. Pantograph is the part of locomotive which supplies electricity from the upper electric wire on the track. As you all are aware that any electric locomotive has 2 pantographs. One is front and the other is rear.  But you have always seen that whenever a locomotive runs it uses a rear pantograph (Opposite direction of train movement) to get electricity. This is not that train can't be run from with front pantograph in the same direction. This gets used to the safety concern, In  case of any damage to the rare pantograph while running the train. The train can be operated with a front Pantograph in that critical situation without making any impact on continuing the journey. If the pilot is using the front pantograph and it gets damaged (Broken) while the journey it can damage the rare pantograph also. In that case, it will stop the train journey totally.  Know More about WAG 12 Also. ------- IN HINDI ------- पूरे लोकोमोटिव म

Lifeline Express is a train but not a train its a running hospital train. This is not only India's but the world's first hospital train. This train is started on 16th July 1991. This train was started with the collaboration of the Indian Railway , Health Ministry and Impact India Foundation (IIF). This train is getting funded by multiple sources i.e. Charitable trusts, Indian  Corporates and individuals as well.  This train was started with an objective to provide treatments to the people where the medical facilities not available for people. This train provides much-needed services to the people with the support of the local authority & Government to encourage the programs after train leaving the stations once service is done in that area. In the past 20 years of work, the Lifeline train has completed more than 100 projects. Currently, this train has 2 Operations theatres, 5 Operating tables, sterilizing room, a patient ward, a room for medical supplies along with other me

Indian Railways is the fourth-largest network in the world. It runs more than 13,523 trains daily on including long-distance and suburban routes. Which carries 23 million passengers a day and around one billion metric tonnes of freight moved from one place to another place.  In Past few years Indian Railway has made its focus on Infrastructure to expand its network i.e. DFC, Chenab Bridge, T-49 terminals, Pirpanji Terminals etc.  Chenab bridge will be the highest rail bridge in the world. The hight of this bridge will be 359 meters. This bridge is being constructed on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail project. The cost of this project is around INR 1,250 crore. Around 1300 workers and 300 engineers are involved to construct this bridge. The steel arch of the bridge has 467 meters in length and is already completed.  Below are some interesting points for the Chenab River The hight of the 359 meters is and its 35 meters taller than Eiffel Tower.  The complete length of the Chenab Bri

As you all know that Indian Railways is the largest number of passenger commuters in India. Being a Passenger many People are not aware of some rules. Knowing these rules will help you to solve your concerns about your journey. Let's have a look at the same. Extension of your Journey before deboarding the train Many passengers are not able to get the ticket for the final destination on the train because of seat unavailability. To get the ticket for the final destination Indian railways has a rule for that also. After boarding the train you may Approach TTE to extend your journey ticket before the destination. TTE will collect extra fare and will issue you a extended journey ticket. There may be a chance to get a different berth in the extended issued ticket. Sleeping hours Timings in Sleeper Coaches As per the rule book of Indian Railways, any passenger on the middle berth is allowed to sleep from 10 PM to  6 AM only. Beyond this timeline, you can not keep the middle berth open. Af

As all of you know that Indian Railways is the fourth-largest rail network in the world.  Indian Railways runs more than 13,523 trains daily on including long-distance and suburban routes. These trains have different types of coaches. Do you know how many types of coaches Indian railway runs in all these trains? Let's have a look. Indian Railways runs 12 types of coaches which are called a class.  Saloon Coach (Saloon) - Saloon Coaches will you the feeling of the Five Star Hotel ambience. These coaches are known as "Home on Wheel". These coaches will have a master bedroom, a normal bedroom, one kitchen also. These coaches are operated on a charter basis. At first, these coaches were used on Jammu Mail (Delhi to Jammu). Vistadome Coach (Vistadome) - These coaches are designed with a large glass window and roof with rotatable seats to provide customers with good observations of outside views near the surrounding. These coaches were added on tourist route i.e. Kalka-Shimla