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Thiruvananthapuram , May 14

Southern Railway proposes to fit trains in the Chennai-Kochi section with `Raksha Kavach,' an Anti-Collision Device (ACD), at a cost of Rs 71 crore.

Raksha Kavach is a self-acting, micro-processor-based data communication device designed and developed in-house by Konkan Railway.

Work on installing the ACDs will be kicked off either in August or September this year, Mr Thomas Varghese, General Manager, Southern Railway, told newspersons here. He said this after commissioning the Rs 1.5-crore computerised train control charting system in the Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division.

Konkan Railway has already completed the survey on ACD fitment and the work will be completed within one year. ACD was now being implemented along a route length of 1,700-km under Northeast Frontier Railway.

The ACD uses both radio frequency and global positioning capabilities to bring a train automatically to halt on a track that is not clear. In case a train detects another approaching on the same track, the resident ACDs on the respective locos will apply brakes bringing both the trains to a halt.

This will help reduce the impact of a head-on collision, if it takes place at all.

In case if a train taxiing into the station area detects the presence of another one standing or starting to move away on the main line, the ACD will automatically regulate the speed to what is the maximum permitted for `turnouts.'

FIRST IN COUNTRY

Meanwhile, the computerised train control charting system has been introduced for the first time in the country in the Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division.

The train charting software has been developed by the Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS). The public will now be able to know the exact location of trains passing anywhere through the division.

The information will be available on a touch-screen kiosk installed at the Central Railway station here. Till now, the train control charting system was done manually.

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