South Central Railway (SCR), where the Indian Railways had pilot tested the state-of-the-art indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection system ‘Kavach’, has now deployed it in a total of 859 km of its network in the last financial year of 2021-22
General Manager in-charge Arun Kumar Jain informed on Thursday that this has been the best-ever performance by the zone in a financial year, since the commencement of the project. ‘Kavach’ has been developed by the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with domestic Industry with SCR associated with it from the development stage and trials to improve safety in train operations.
The ATP activates the train breaking system automatically if the loco pilot fails to control the train as per the speed restrictions and it also prevents collision between two trains /locomotives. It was initially tested in 264 km covering 25 stations across Wadi – Vikarabad – Sanatnagar and Vikarabad – Bidar sections and this was later taken to an additional 322 km covering 32 stations and now it covers 77 stations.
