In a first of its kind on Indian Railways, a centralised traffic
control (CTC) with electronic interlocking and automatic signalling
system is being set up on the Ghaziabad-Kanpur section enhancing the
line capacity and safety in train operation.

Ghaziabad-Kanpur is one of the busiest sections of Indian Railways
with over 200 trains using this 410 km long electrified route in a
day.

All signalling and telecom gears in the section have outlived their
utility and are now obsolete.

"It has been decided to replace signalling and telecommunication
assets and provide automatic signalling on the busy route which has
47 stations and nine big yards including Etawah, Aligarh, Tundla and
Dadri," said a senior Railways Ministry official involved with the
project.

The CTC centre is coming up at Tundla, said the official.

The CTC will have a large panorama projection for display of the
entire section. It will be equipped with remote control of station
signalling gears, time table management, conflict solving in planned
train connections, computation of current plan deviation and the
entire statistics of the Ghaziabad-Kanpur section.

The railways is also introducing the mobile train radio
communication (MTRC) system in the section as a pilot project.

The MTRC will enable an uninterrupted communication between the
driver and the control room and station master in a running train,
which is currently not possible.

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New Delhi August 12, 2008, 12:43 IST