Kavach, the indigenously developed Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) under operation in the South Central Railway (SCR) only to an extent of about 1,400 km of rail network is likely to have an advanced version with the trial runs to commence soon.
Senior officials involved in the exercise said one of the three companies involved in getting the licence to make the Automatic Train Protection (ATP) equipment - Medha Servo Drives, has recently got permission to conduct trials on the Lingampalli-Sanathnagar-Vikarabad route to test the advanced version of the first prototype cleared by the Railways’ RDSO – Research Designs & Standards Organisation.
‘Kavach Version 2’ will be on the lines of the CBTC – Communication-Based Train Control System, used in the metro rail systems across the country including the Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR), but not as sophisticated, they explained, requesting anonymity.
