New Farakka Express derailed near Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh around 6 am on 10.10.2018
In the derailment at least seven people died and around 35 injured after nine coaches and the engine of the New Farakka Express (Train No. 14003) derailed near Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh at around 6 am on 10.10.2018. Several passengers on the train were trapped. more…
Immediate Recommendations of CRS
The Commissioner of Railway Safety , Shri S. K . Pathak conducted the enquiry and Immediate Recommendations are issued
“In accordance with Rule 3 of Statutory Investing into Railway accidents Rules issued by Ministry of Civil Aviation, after the preliminary investigation of the above subject accident and based on the facts revealed in the inquiry by the witness, followings immediate recommendations are made to Railway Administration in the interest of safety in train operation:-
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- Railways should decide on a reasonable time as well as reasonable number of attempts after which a point not responding to command given from control panel is to be declared as failed. Necessary changes in data logger software should be done to log such point failure in data logger exceptional report. Action as per G&SR should be ensured after point is declared as failed.
- Provision of Magnetic Lock in Relay room door to keep electronic log of number of times the door is opened must be ensured in working condition at all stations having data logger. Failure of this magnetic lock shall reflect in DRM’s daily position.
- All the location boxes provided at each end of yard in point zone should be replaced by the location hut which should house signalling gears pertaining to various points on one end of the yard. The location huts must also be kept under double lock with one key being in the possession of SM and it should be opened by S&T staff only after following same procedure as prescribed for the relay room opening.
Recommendations No. 2 and 3 will ensure that there is no tempering in signalling circuit either in relay room or in location boxes. - Drivers should be trained to ensure that use of SA-9 brake (Independent loco brake) in case of emergency should not be restored to unless completely unavoidable. More particularly, SA-9 must not be used on turn outs and curves as this may exerts excessive unbalanced forces & torque due to momentum of the trailing load.
- Data logger terminal with report printing and simulation facility should also be available with Chief Controller Coaching in the control room so that immediate access of data is available with chief controller also.
- Training of Data logger architecture, usage, interpretation and report generation should be given to operating control officials.”
Conclusion of CRS report…
More or less these recommendations are already in place and Data logger is being used extensively for these purposes…
Point flashing, and point failure is being monitored through Data logger today also.
Relay Room Door lock is also being monitored through Data logger and it is part of daily position of Sr.DSTEs.
The Location huts at point zone is good recommendation but its practicality restrict the implementation of this recommendation. It wont be possible to maintain the signalling gears without the key of huts. it is always not possible to construct location hut due to site constraints. maintenance of location huts is also subjective of various other factors.
Why not operation of trains should be S&T department???
Recommendation no. 5 & 6 are basically indicates the operation of trains should be with S&T department, who has the access to data at all the times even in emergency. And also S&T department has the trained employees, who understand the data. Basically the Chief controller of operation must have access to data and knowledge of data interpretation, which can be very well done by S&T department.
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