Namaste 🙂 The Indian Railways recently made two big announcements for its passengers. If you are a frequent traveller, then go ahead and check out all these updates.
Highlights –
> India’s first Hydrogen-powered train to roll out by Dec 2023.
> Kavach, an anti-protection system installed by Railways.
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Here are the complete details:
A) India to launch hydrogen-powered Vande Metro on heritage routes by December 2023. According to news reports, a prototype of a hydrogen fuel-based train is being developed at the Northern Railway workshop and will be tested on the Sonipat-Jind section in Haryana.
The heritage routes include the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Kalka Shimla Railway, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, Kangra Valley, Bilmora Waghai, Matheran Hill Railway and Marwar–Devgarh Madriya.
Vande Metro will be manufactured in large numbers and will replace trains that were manufactured in the 1950s and 1960s.
Also read: Railways Announces 124 Sankranti Special Trains
B) Indian Railways’ anti-collision system ‘Kavach’ has been deployed for 1,455 route kilometres. The 3000-kilometers-long rail routes of Delhi–Mumbai and Delhi–Howrah will soon be secured with this new technology.
What is the ‘Kavach’ protection system?
‘Kavach’, which means ‘armour’, is an anti-train collision system. This will enable trains to stop on their own in case the system detects errors like a train blowing past a red signal or any other malfunction.
Here’s the official tweet confirming the same:
#Kavach: Automatic Train 🚆 Protection System
💠Deployed for 1,455 Route Kms on South Central Railway with 77 locomotives
💠Work in progress on Delhi-Mumbai & Delhi-Howrah corridors (3000 Kms route)
Watch this video to know more about ‘Kavach’ system here👇@AshwiniVaishnaw pic.twitter.com/6pAUjqnaNh
— Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (@MIB_India) January 3, 2023
Till we meet again, happy travels! 😀
