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Where can I find locomotives that have been exported from India by IR?

20-06-2019

Where can I find locomotives that have been exported from India by IR? There are several locomotives that have been manufactured specifically for other countries, or rebuilt and then exported, sold/resold, or otherwise given to other national railways by Indian Railways, such as the many YDM-4's sold to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar, Togo, etc. Many of these are in active use on those railways. However, it is often hard to get accurate information on locomotive numbers and their current disposition. Mick Pope posted the following to the IRFCA mailing list in July 2008: The Summer 2008 edition of the Continental Railway Journal contains the following news reports of exported YDM-4 and

What is the ‘authority to proceed’?

July 16, 2019

Authority to proceed is the formal name for the permission or authorization that allows a driver to take a train into a section of track, in either block or non-block systems of working. It is also known as train working authority. In places where token block instruments are in use, block tokens constitute the authority to proceed. Normally in

What is Permissive Block (or Absolute Permissive Block) Signalling?

July 16, 2019

Normally, in Absolute Block Signalling, the single-line section between points where sidings or loops are provided must be treated as a single block in order to prevent two trains from entering it at the same time. However, this also reduces track utilization in the case of trains following one another in the same direction. In these cases, a

What is Automatic Block Signalling? (What is the Automatic Block system?)

July 16, 2019

In Automatic Block Signalling (ABS) the signals are automated and operate in conjunction with track circuiting or other means of detecting the presence of a train in a block section. As of March 2003, IR had 3,606 kms of track under the ABS system. When a train enters a block section, the stop signal protecting that block changes automatically

Know About -What’s a Moving Block system? – Indian Railway

July 16, 2019

Moving block is a more advanced system usually associated with ATC (Automatic Train Control). It is not in use anywhere on IR. In moving block systems, a train's position and speed are communicated to control equipment which then computes the appropriate headway to be maintained between and other trains on the same track, and accordingly

What is Controlled Manual Block?

July 16, 2019

Controlled Manual Block is a system where a manually operated block instrument is used for obtaining the Line Clear permission from the station in advance; however, the clearance of the section must first be verified through track circuiting. The block instrument is connected to the track circuits, and it is not possible for Line Clear to be

What is Open Block?

July 16, 2019

The basic token-based Absolute Block system described above has three states: Line Clear, Train on Line, and Line Closed. (Of course, on single-line systems there may be Train Coming From and Train Going To instead of Train on Line). This is also known as Three-Position Block, or Closed Block, because the fundamental assumption is that the block

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