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CBTC system will help keeping waiting period between two metro trains at just 90 seconds, this is the shortest waiting time in the world. Other Metro projects in India have a minimum waiting period of 180 seconds between two trains. MEGA will have an average speed of 40 km per hour, and will have a top speed of 110 kmph. Coming up at a total cost of INR 19,0000 crores, Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad Metro link will adopt driverless technology in the country due to a fully computerized CBTC system. This not only quickens the journey but also ensures total safety while time spent waiting for the next train is at its minimum. The question of human error, a major cause of accidents, is also negated due to the use of driverless trains.Another notable fact where MEGA is concerned is that these are broad gauge tracks on which the Metro will run. Each bogey will have a capacity of 400 passengers as against a limit of 250 passengers seen in other trains which means that a four bogey Metro will be able to carry a total of 1,600 passengers while other Metros in India carry 1,500 passengers in its six bogey trains, reports The Hindu.Existing India cities to feature metro rapid transit in India include Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore. Construction of metro train service is also in progress at other Indian cities. By 2020, following Indian cities will have metro services, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Chennai, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad Gandhinagar, Bhopal Chandigarh, Indore, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Surat, and Guwahati.

Apart from this, Monorail rapid transit work is also in progress. Mumbai recently made it’s first trial run with passengers inside. Just like Metro, Monorails too will be seen in many Indian cities by 2020.

उज्जैन. मध्य प्रदेश के उज्जैन मे आगामी 2016 मे सिहस्थ के दौरान लगभग सौ स्पेशल रेलगाडियां चलाने की तैयारी की जा रही और उसी के अनुरुप आधारभूत संरचनाए जुटाई जा रही है. इसके साथ ही उज्जैन स्टेशन पर हाईटेक सुविधाए भी जुटाई जायेगी.

पश्चिम रेलवे के महाप्रबंधक प्रमोद कुमार ने आज यहां उज्जैन स्टेशन का निरीक्षण के दौरान यह जानकारी दी. उन्होने बताया कि उज्जैन मे आगामी 2016 को होने वाले सिहस्थ महापर्व के पूर्व रेल प्रशासन द्वारा शहर के फ्रीगंज साइड की अोर विचरण क्षेत्र का विस्तार किया जायेगा और बहुउद्देश्य परिसर के लिये रेल भूमि विकास प्राधिकरण द्वारा निविदाए आमंत्रित की गई है.

A technical fault in overhead equipment disrupted train services in the Tatanagar-Rourkela section of South Eastern Railway for about two hours on Friday afternoon.
At least half a dozen trains, including Howrah-Titlagarh Ispat Express (down), Tata-Patna South Bihar Express, Tata-Danapur Express (down) and Tata-Chhapra Express (down) ran behind schedule when the overhead equipment developed a fault near Goelkera station in Chakradharpur division around 1pm.
Janshatabdi Express, which was scheduled to reach Barbil, Odisha, around 1.30pm, was also delayed by around 30 minutes.
Railway sources said engineers, who were rushed to the site, took about two hours to repair the fault and restore normal traffic.
“Train services were disrupted in the Chakradharpur division due to the breakdown of overhead equipment near Goelkera. Tata-Chhapra Express was already running late. It got delayed further as we could not provide a platform for its arrival,” said a railway official at Tatanagar.
As trains reached late, waiting passengers at Tatanagar, especially those bound for Bihar, created a ruckus.
“I had to reach Chhapra by Friday morning for an important business meeting. Now, I don’t know what to do,” said Ramesh Prasad, a passenger.
This was the second time in less than two weeks that train services were affected in this division.
On July 31, a technical snag at Brijrajnagar disrupted services onthe Howrah-Mumbai main line.

Ferozepur:
The much-awaited Ferozepur-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Intercity Express was flagged off at the cantonment railway station amid jubilation this morning. Lok Sabha MP from Ferozepur Sher Singh Ghubaya, former MP Jagmeet Brar, legislator Parminder Singh Pinki and NC Goyal, DRM, Ferozepur Division, were among those present on the occasion.
The intercity train (14626) would start from Ferozepur daily at 4.30 am and reach the Delhi Sarai Rohilla station at 11.45 am via Faridkot, Kotkapura, Bhatinda, Mansa, Jakhal, Narwana, Jind and Rohtak. On its return journey, the train would start at 6.45 am and reach Ferozepur at 2.45 pm. The train had 15 coaches, including two AC coaches, five sleepers, and two brake vans.

CHENNAI: Passengers arriving at Chennai central continue to suffer as the stalemate over relocation of the prepaid autorickshaw stand continues. Autorickshaw drivers at the stand met station manager S Govindaswamy who is learnt to have said that the matter was to be resolved with railway police and traffic police. The drivers had met police on Thursday but the meeting ended without a result.Chennai metro rail, which displaced the prepaid auto stand and put up a barricade on EVRSalai (Poonamallee High Road) 16 days ago, have not offered an alternative space. More than 20 women drivers, all of them widows, continue to be jobless due to the standoff. Passengers arriving at Central are forced to walk with their luggage to the main road where auto drivers charge exorbitant fares for short distances. Southern Railway appears to have washed its hands off the issue. "Every agency is passing the buck. I have two daughters who are in college and this is my only profession. For the last several days I have been jobless," said K Senthil, an auto driver.

The much-awaited commuter rail system may soon take off in the city as the Department of Urban Land Transport (DULT) is making preparations to issue work orders for the project’s first phase.DULT Commissioner V Manjula said: “We have finished preparing detailed project reports for Phase-I A and have sent them to the Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) for approval. We are expecting the approval in a few days and are likely to issue work orders by the month-end.”The project prepared by RITES provides for running electrified trains between Bangalore City-Mandya and Bangalore City-Bangarpet. In the Bangalore-Mandya route, the trains will stop at Nayandahalli, Jnanabharathi, Kengeri, Hejjala, Bidadi and Ramanagara while on the Bangalore-Bangarpet route, the trains will stop at Cantonment, Bangalore East, Krishnarajapuram, Whitefield, Devanagondhi and Malur.Works enlisted for Phase-I A is likely to cost `174 crore, excluding the cost of acquiring Binny Mills land and construction a terminus there. The RITES had prepared a feasibility report for introducing electrified trains to Tumkur, Mandya, Chikballapur, Bangarpet, Doddaballapur and Hosur from the city under the commuter rail system. According to the estimate, the project is expected to cost `8,759 crore.Earlier, the state government had approached the Railways to implement the project. While they approved it, the Railways refused to fund the project as the commuter rail system implemented by them is running under loss.Later, they agreed to implement the project only if the government provides the necessary funds and seven acres of land belonging to Binny Mills to create infrastructure. The government agreed to fund the project and decided to constitute a special purpose vehicle consisting officials from the state government and Railways to implement it. The CM had recently given his approval for the project.

Ferozepur:
The much-awaited Ferozepur-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Intercity Express was flagged off at the cantonment railway station amid jubilation this morning. Lok Sabha MP from Ferozepur Sher Singh Ghubaya, former MP Jagmeet Brar, legislator Parminder Singh Pinki and NC Goyal, DRM, Ferozepur Division, were among those present on the occasion.Ghubaya said that after being elected MP from the Ferozepur parliamentary constituency, he had consistently raised the demand for a train to Delhi from Ferozepur and Fazilka.He said the Railway Ministry, however, took a long time to give its approval to the train. The MP said he had also taken up the demand for revival of the Amritsar-Ferozepur rail link via Patti.The Union Government had selected 100 railway stations under a modernisation plan. However, Punjab had been ignored.Brar said he had personally met then Railway Minister Pawan Bansal several times for sanctioning the train. He said the people of the area wanted another train to Haridwar and he would take up the issue with the minister soon. Pinki said the traders of the region would benefit from the new train to Delhi. Naresh Chander Goyal, DRM, Ferozepur Division, said the intercity train (14626) would start from Ferozepur daily at 4.30 am and reach the Delhi Sarai Rohilla station at 11.45 am via Faridkot, Kotkapura, Bhatinda, Mansa, Jakhal, Narwana, Jind and Rohtak. On its return journey, the train would start at 6.45 am and reach Ferozepur at 2.45 pm. The train had 15 coaches, including two AC coaches, five sleepers, and two brake vans. Railway sources said 40 passengers travelled in the general compartment today. Only five opted for the AC coaches.


About the train

It will start from Ferozepur daily at 4.30 am
It will reach the Delhi Sarai Rohilla station at 11.45
It will halt at Faridkot, Kotkapura, Bathinda, Mansa, Jakhal, Narwana, Jind and Rohtak stations
On the return journey, the train will start at 6.45 am
It will reach Ferozepur at 2.45 pm
The train has 15 coaches, including two AC ones, five sleepers, and two brake vans
Makeover for station yard

Ferozepur: The Railways have given the nod to a proposal for remodelling the railway station yard at an estimated cost of Rs 20 crore. Naresh Chander Goyal, Divisional Railways Manager (DRM), Ferozepur Division, said two new platforms would constructed. A washable apron for better cleanliness on the tracks and route relay interlocking (RRI) building shall also be craised. The department would provide electronically operated signalling system on the Ferozepur-Ludhiana and Ferozepur-Bhatinda sections. The rail track would be upgraded and redundant lines removed, the DRM added. — Anirudh Gupta

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In a bid to fulfil the light refreshment requirements of passengers boarding and alighting trains at railway stations, 45 stations under the Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division are getting new catering stalls. Of this, 39 stations are in Kerala. Stations coming under the lower income D, E categories and halt stations in the F category are getting the stalls. Ten stations are in the D category and 29 are in the E category. The only F station where the stall is being installed is in Tamil Nadu. All these stalls are coming up for the first time in the respective stations. In some stations stalls are coming up on two platforms.  Of this, permission has been granted to install stalls in 19 stations. Whereas in some stations, none has responded. “For the stations where no applications have been received, we would invite fresh applications,” said a railway official.

When some stations which have lowest income got no takers, the stations which witness large number of passengers too evoked no response. For all these stations, fresh applications will be invited, including the B category stations, the official said.

In a bid to fulfil the light refreshment requirements of passengers boarding and alighting trains at railway stations, 45 stations under the Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division are getting new catering stalls. Of this, 39 stations are in Kerala. Stations coming under the lower income D, E categories and halt stations in the F category are getting the stalls. Ten stations are in the D category and 29 are in the E category. The only F station where the stall is being installed is in Tamil Nadu. All these stalls are coming up for the first time in the respective stations. In some stations stalls are coming up on two platforms.  Of this, permission has been granted to install stalls in 19 stations. Whereas in some stations, none has responded. “For the stations where no applications have been received, we would invite fresh applications,” said a railway official.

When some stations which have lowest income got no takers, the stations which witness large number of passengers too evoked no response. For all these stations, fresh applications will be invited, including the B category stations, the official said.