NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has ditched the tried-and-tested method of tying crackers to the tracks to alert drivers of approaching signals, in favour of a system that can ensure trains no longer move at a snail’s pace in foggy weather.
The device — Fog Pass (Fog Pilot Assistance System) or FSD — is GPS-enabled and can continuously calculate the distance of the train in relation to the next landmark, enabling drivers to know when exactly a signal is approaching.
The national transporter has recently installed 4,920 such devices in the most fog-affected railway zones — northern, north-central, north-eastern and north-western.
Plans are afoot to install an additional 1,175 such devices in two more zones by this Friday — east-central and northeast-frontier — to take the total to 6,095, covering the most-affected zones.
(AGENCIES)
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