Railways Enhances Its Safety Measures

The Union Railway Minister Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has announced that Railways proposes to install Train Protection Warning System and Train Collision Avoidance System on select routes at the earliest. Presenting the Railway Budget for 2015-16 in Parliament today, he informed the members that to prevent fire in coaches and also prevent coaches from climbing over each other during accidents, RDSO has been asked to develop new systems.

 The Railway Minister informed the members that to curb derailments, modern track structure consisting of sleepers and heavier rails are being used while carrying out primary track renewals. Better welding techniques would also be promoted. Further, analogue machines for testing of rails are being replaced with digital type machines, which are more reliable.

Train safety systems to be installed on selected routes, paired with track modernization and digital rail-testing upgrades. Railways will deploy Train Protection Warning System and Train Collision Avoidance System on selected routes, with the research and development organization instructed to develop systems to prevent coach fires and coaches climbing over one another. Concurrently, track renewals will use modern sleepers and heavier rails, welding techniques will be improved, and analogue rail-testing machines will be replaced by digital machines to curb derailments.