MANGALURU: A adventure alongside the picturesque Konkan Railway route this monsoon is all set to be slow and secure. Keeping in mind the terrain alongside the route, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd has installed position several measures to ensure that educate operations at the route is incident unfastened and has finished all its deliberate safety works from Kolad, after Roha station of Central Railway to Thokur, before Mangaluru junction station beneath Palakkad division.
Special consideration has been paid to empty cleaning and inspection of cuttings. As a result of the huge scale geo-safety works carried out alongside the railway line in ultimate decade and more, incidences of boulder fall and soil slip have significantly lowered, thus ensuring protected running of trains. There has been no primary disruption to train services as a result of boulder fall right through monsoon in ultimate 5 years, L Ok Verma, leader public members of the family officer, KRCL stated.
Konkan Railway will habits monsoon patrolling to verify protected running of trains. About 770 group of workers will be patrolling the route right through the monsoon. Vulnerable locations will be patrolled round-the-clock and stationary watchmen deployed for 24 hours at crucial locations. Speed restrictions will be imposed at susceptible locations. BRN mounted excavators had been saved able in any respect nominated issues for quick motion in case of any emergency.
Instructions have also been issued to loco drivers to run trains at a discounted velocity of 40 kmph in case of heavy rainfall when visibility is limited. Self-propelled coincidence relief medical van, with provision of operation theatre and providing emergency medical aid are saved able in any respect time at Ratnagiri and Verna together with coincidence relief educate. Loco pilots, station masters, executives of all departments and other box officers had been provided mobile phones
Both loco pilots and guards of trains had been provided with walkie-talkie units as well as every station on Konkan Railway is provided with 25 Watt VHF base station. This allows wi-fi conversation between educate team as well as educate team and station masters. Emergency conversation sockets had been provided at an average distance of 1-km alongside the route that allows the stakeholders to touch station grasp and educate controllers right through emergency.
Satellite phone conversation has been provided in ARMV for emergency touch when ARMV is pressed in carrier. All major signals on Konkan Railway numbering 2,344 at the moment are changed with LED for making improvements to sign visibility. Tree Control rooms at Belapur, Ratnagiri and Madgaon, will work 24 x 7 right through monsoon period for ensuring protected running of educate. Passengers can check educate standing on www.konkanrailway.com, or dial 139, Verma stated.
Special consideration has been paid to empty cleaning and inspection of cuttings. As a result of the huge scale geo-safety works carried out alongside the railway line in ultimate decade and more, incidences of boulder fall and soil slip have significantly lowered, thus ensuring protected running of trains. There has been no primary disruption to train services as a result of boulder fall right through monsoon in ultimate 5 years, L Ok Verma, leader public members of the family officer, KRCL stated.
Konkan Railway will habits monsoon patrolling to verify protected running of trains. About 770 group of workers will be patrolling the route right through the monsoon. Vulnerable locations will be patrolled round-the-clock and stationary watchmen deployed for 24 hours at crucial locations. Speed restrictions will be imposed at susceptible locations. BRN mounted excavators had been saved able in any respect nominated issues for quick motion in case of any emergency.
Instructions have also been issued to loco drivers to run trains at a discounted velocity of 40 kmph in case of heavy rainfall when visibility is limited. Self-propelled coincidence relief medical van, with provision of operation theatre and providing emergency medical aid are saved able in any respect time at Ratnagiri and Verna together with coincidence relief educate. Loco pilots, station masters, executives of all departments and other box officers had been provided mobile phones
Both loco pilots and guards of trains had been provided with walkie-talkie units as well as every station on Konkan Railway is provided with 25 Watt VHF base station. This allows wi-fi conversation between educate team as well as educate team and station masters. Emergency conversation sockets had been provided at an average distance of 1-km alongside the route that allows the stakeholders to touch station grasp and educate controllers right through emergency.
Satellite phone conversation has been provided in ARMV for emergency touch when ARMV is pressed in carrier. All major signals on Konkan Railway numbering 2,344 at the moment are changed with LED for making improvements to sign visibility. Tree Control rooms at Belapur, Ratnagiri and Madgaon, will work 24 x 7 right through monsoon period for ensuring protected running of educate. Passengers can check educate standing on www.konkanrailway.com, or dial 139, Verma stated.
Konkan Railway fully geared up for southwest monsoon
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June 05, 2018
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