INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has recommended the railways to ensure that the standard practices are followed for
carrying out signalling-modification work
It has also said that before taking up modification of the existing signalling circuits, functional tests of the existing circuits under
alteration should be carried out to ensure that actual circuits are in accordance with the completion drawings.The CRS investigation into
telecommunication wing of the railways for the deadly accident.It has also pointed at human error for the accident.The safety commissioner,
in its report, has recommended a series of corrective steps to eliminate such mishaps in future
It has said that an officer should be present at spot for carrying out any such changes in the signalling circuits.The CRS has also
recommended deployment of a separate team for checking and testing of modified signalling circuits and functions before restoration or
Both the execution and checking and testing of signalling-modification works should be done by staff in possession of this competency
indication relays is detected for a point, all signal movement over that point should be prevented
said.It has recommended that provision should be made for separate logging of physical relays in the station and data logger and that point
detection circuits should be carried in a separate cable for each point or crossover without any intermediate termination.On the role of the
station master, the report said the officer should be made aware of possible faulty conditions of the EI system that could be detected
through indication on the panel.As a long-term measure, the report has suggested that signalling functions and gears should be directly
connected to EI through open fibre control eliminating intermediate relays.
