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Workload of loco pilots comes under focus News Entry# 134933
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Was the suburban motorman who averted a mishap by halting the train seconds before collapsing on the cabin floor a victim of a heavy workload? S. Manohar was driving an EMU from Gummidipoondi to Chennai on Wednesday afternoon when he collapsed inside the cabin and died a few hours later at...
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Switches on flasher light before he collapsed, driver of train from opposite direction alerts authorities When motorman S. Manohar (48) ignored his fever and signed up for duty on Thursday to operate the suburban service from Gummudipoondi to Chennai, little would he have known what fate had in store for him. Within...
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by: Jayashree ▪❖▪ Amita** Yesterday (11:13PM)

THANE: Mumbai's most valued lifeline, the suburban railway network, has earned the reputation as most unsafe mode of travel, considering that 10,413 commuters died and another 12,227 suffered near-fatal injuries during the last four years (2009-2012), according to information sourced from the central and western railway authorities. More than sixty years...
BJP accuses Pawan Bansal of favouring catering contractors News Entry# 134929
by: Jayashree ▪❖▪ Amita** Yesterday (11:13PM)

Chandigarh : BJP today accused former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal of favouring the contractors by reducing license fee on catering contracts, causing “massive” financial losses to railways. “Former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal reduced the licensee on catering contracts from 15 per cent to 10 per cent applicable for...

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Blog Entry# 471846

Posted: Jul 03 2012 (1:09PM)

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arya.rishav99* 2458 blog posts 585 correct pred (68% accurate)

Entry# 471846

Is Indian Railway tracks are feet for 150/kmph?

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Koush IRF** 18493 blog posts 1075 correct pred (73% accurate)

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@471846-0 @arya.rishav99*

only ndls - agra section is fit for 150 sir at present .. They are working to make ndls cnb section for 150 as well..

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Vijay railfan 666 blog posts 68 correct pred (56% accurate)

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@471846-19 @broad gauge

sir I have read that in news paper very long before.
I guess just before introduction of BPL shatabdi(probably in 2005 ) I read an article that BPL shatabdi is fastest train in India and for that entire NDLS-BPL stretch is made fit to run 150KMPH

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Mahesh Gupta 1142 blog posts 68654 correct pred (70% accurate)

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@471846-21 @Vijay railfan

NDLS - TKD = 130 KMPH
TKD - AGC = 150 KMPH
AGC - LAR = 130 KMPH
LAR - BPL = 120 KMPH
This is the MPS for BPL Shatabdi.
The whole stretch between NDLS - BPL might have been designed for 160 KMPH but a train cannot do more than what has been put up above or in short cannot do more than the MPS.
Just for info i have learned that CNB-NDLS is designed for 160 KMPH operations but...
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