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November 2017
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Kharagpur station (The Total Investment & Insurance
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In
a bid to increase speed and ensure punctuality of trains, Railways on Monday
said that it has commissioned India's largest state-of-the-art Electronic
Interlocking (EI) system of 800 routes at Kharagpur station in West Bengal by
replacing the century old Route Relay Interlocking system with 423 routes.
"On
Sunday, we have commissioned the EI system of 800 routes at Kharagpur
station," a Railways Ministry statement said.
According
to a senior Ministry official, this new technology will now allow station
masters at Kharagpur station to set 800 different routes for trains in a few
clicks of the mouse and keyboard.
Railway
officials also said that the new interlocking system will ensure that no cross
movement takes place during the crossings, to avoid disastrous collisions.
"Final
work of commissioning was taken up during a block of 12 hours," the
Railways said.
The
officials also said that preparations for commissioning of the EI system was
commenced 18 months ago and involved hundreds of thousands of man-hours of
installation and testing.
"Generally,
work of this nature and magnitude, involving major yard remodelling, is
commissioned by resorting to non-interlocked working for several days,
resulting in severe disruption of railway traffic and public inconvenience from
cancellation and late running of trains.
"And
to avoid such a situation, innovative planning was done for commissioning the
work in a traffic block of 12 hours, thereby ensuring bare minimum traffic
disruptions and passenger inconvenience," the Ministry said.
The
Ministry also said that the new EI system has been provided in a distributed
manner with the interlocking distributed over nine zones interconnected with highly
reliable Optical Fibre Cables in a ring configuration.
Thus
resulting in major reduction in use of copper cables which is not only
unreliable, difficult to maintain, prone to theft but also costly.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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