What other methods of communication with train crew are used on IR?

July 16, 2019, 12:31 PM
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Handheld radios (walkie talkie sets) are widely used now (since the late 1990s) by train crew, yard crew, etc.). Some stations have transmitters allowing them to broadcast to all walkie talkies in the vicinity. Often, because of their higher power they are able to transmit to walkie talkie sets carried by crew that are farther away than the distance the walkie talkies can normally operate within, so that they cannot receive any messages in the reverse direction in such cases!

The Rajdhani Expresses still use a primitive though reliable form of communication. A pair of wires are connected to a telephone socket on the end of the first Rajdhani coach, usually a generator van. This telephone line then goes through the entire rake to the last coach where the guard has a telephone instrument. The driver also has a portable instrument which he plugs into this wire and communication between the guard and driver becomes possible even if the walkie talkies cannot function for some reason.

Source – IFRCA.org

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