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Loco pilots save 8 lions on Gujarat railway tracks
1 week, 1 day ago

Loco pilots save 8 lions on Gujarat railway tracks

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhavnagar: Alert loco pilots of a goods train and a passenger train in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district successfully prevented a tragedy by applying brakes in time to save eight lions that had wandered onto the tracks. According to Mashooque Ahmad, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Bhavnagar, a total of 104 lions have been saved so far this financial year, thanks to the …

Gujarat Lions Loco Pilots Save Tracks Bhavnagar
Railways to install optical fibre-based system to detect elephant crossing
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Railways to install optical fibre-based system to detect elephant crossing

The Hindu  

The Railways will soon install an optical fibre-based intrusion detection system along the elephant infested 33-km stretch between Kottekkad and Madukkarai as part of its latest measure to prevent elephant deaths on the tracks. The optical fibre network will detect the presence of animals big and small through vibrations, and send real-time alerts to the intrusion monitoring cell, station masters …

Railway Tracks Elephant Chaturvedi Madukkarai Elephant Deaths Loco Pilots
Anti-collision system to be set in 2.2K km tracks in Tamil Nadu, Kerala
8 months ago

Anti-collision system to be set in 2.2K km tracks in Tamil Nadu, Kerala

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Southern Railway has decided to install Kavach, the anti-collision system for trains, for 2,216 km of tracks across Tamil Nadu and Kerala. On-board RFID reader is mounted beneath the locomotive and it can read the RFID tags fitted between the rails and collect information such as unique tag ID, direction of travel and unique track identification number. On-board equipment …

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Stuck tractor forces Rajdhani Express loco pilot to apply emergency brake
1 year, 6 months ago

Stuck tractor forces Rajdhani Express loco pilot to apply emergency brake

Hindustan Times  

The loco pilot of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express was forced to apply an emergency brake as a tractor got stuck at a manned railway crossing just before the premier train was to pass by in Jharkhand’s Bokaro district, officials said. Senior divisional commercial manager Vikas Kumar said that the loco pilot managed to stop the train on time. “As …

Train Kumar Rajdhani Express Emergency Brake
What could have led Coromandel Express into the loop line?
1 year, 6 months ago

What could have led Coromandel Express into the loop line?

The Hindu  

Did the repair of a boom barrier at a level crossing near the Bahanaga Bazar railway station at Balasore in Odisha lead to the horrific crash of the superfast Coromandel Express, bound for Chennai from Howrah, after colliding with a stationary goods train on the loop line? Senior Railway officials, wishing to remain anonymous, disclosed that the repair of the …

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Piyush Goyal Lauds Train Crew, Loco Pilot for Saving 3 Elephants Crossing Tracks in West Bengal
4 years, 1 month ago

Piyush Goyal Lauds Train Crew, Loco Pilot for Saving 3 Elephants Crossing Tracks in West Bengal

News 18  

Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal has applauded the loco pilot and crew of a train after they stopped on time to save the lives of three elephants crossing the tracks. “The alertness & prompt action of loco pilot & crew helped to save lives of three elephants including one baby elephant crossing rail tracks on Sivok-Gulma section in West …

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