Indian Rly to use infrared camera system to check derailments on high-speed sections
New Delhi: Indian Railways for the first time has decided to use Rs 75 crore photographic inspection systems on tracks to check derailments on its ambitious Rs 18,000 crore project for increasing train speeds on the two busiest Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah rail sections. The two projects have been approved in Railway Budget and likely to cut down travel time between the three metro cities by 2019. The plan is to install photographic inspection systems at 10 locations each costing Rs 7.5 crore on the entire section to get photographic data of wheel profiles. Several railways across the world use the photo diagnostic system and it will be used for the first on these two sections in Indian railways, said a senior official of railway ministry. “The Railway Board is in process of finalising the stations on Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah section where these units have to be put. We may have to acquire these units from companies abroad,” said the official. The system is designed to...