N F Railway takes various measures to ensure safe running of trains

GUWAHATI: Safety audits and inspections are undertaken at regular intervals on railway infrastructure with a view to identifying weak areas in asset maintenance. Safety procedures are followed to provide ways and means to prevent accidents. Besides, periodic safety drives are launched from time to time to check safety consciousness amongst staff and streamline safety aspects, including asset maintenance.

To improve safety as well as reliability of assets in train operation, timely replacement of over-aged assets, adoption of suitable technologies for upgrade and maintenance of track, rolling stock, signalling, and interlocking systems, safety drives, greater emphasis on training of officials, and inspections at regular intervals to monitor and educate staff for observance of safe practices, safety devices/systems being used to prevent accidents include electronic interlocking, track circuiting, the provision of block-proving axle counters (BPAC), color-lit LED signals, train protection warning systems (TPWS), mobile train radio communication (MTRC), dedicated OFC-based acoustic sensing systems, vigilance control devices (VCD), fog pass devices, pre-stressed concrete sleepers, and the use of digital types of machines for ultrasonic flaw detection (USFD).

The System Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Centre has been installed at many locations across NFR. This system remotely monitors and diagnoses failures relating to signal and telecommunication assets, stated a press release.

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