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On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district in the east Indian state of Odisha. The accident occurred around 19:00 IST when Coromandel Express, a passenger train, collided with a stationary goods train near Bahanaga Bazar railway station on the Howrah–Chennai main line. Due to the high speed of the passenger train and the heavy ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation. In this role, the NTSB investigates and reports on aviation accidents and incidents, certain types of highway crashes, ship and marine accidents, pipeline incidents, bridge failures ...
7 May 1950 – A train plunged off a bridge in the state of Bihar, killing at least 81 people and injuring 100. [14] 3 September 1951 – The Sharanpur Express derailed about 18 km (11 mi) from Delhi, killing 10 and injuring 30. [15] 4 January 1954 – A passenger train derailed while crossing a bridge near Bhatinda, killing at least 15 people ...
t. e. The Chairperson and CEO of the Indian Railway Board is the administrative head of the Indian Railways, which functions under the overall control of the Parliament of India through the Minister for railways. The chairperson also serves as ex-officio Principal Secretary to the Government of India for the Ministry of Railways.
26 July – Poland – Seven goods wagons rolled for 2 km (1.2 mi) before it derailed and crashed into a railway station building, killing three. [88] 31 July – India – The engine and some coaches of the Guwahati Bangalore Express derailed and were hit by another train in Malda district, West Bengal, killing three and injuring 200. [89]
Indian Railways is a statutory body managed by the railway board under the ownership of the ministry that operates the national railway system. The ministry along with the railway board is housed inside Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. It is headed by the Minister of Railways. With more than 1.2 million employees, it is one of the world's largest ...
KAVACH (lit. 'Armour') is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system indigenously developed and patented jointly by Kernex Microsystems, HBL Power Systems and Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO). [1][2][3] Initially it was known by the name Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).[4] Kavach was adopted by Ministry of Railways as ...
A checksum of a message is a modular arithmetic sum of message code words of a fixed word length (e.g., byte values). The sum may be negated by means of a ones'-complement operation prior to transmission to detect unintentional all-zero messages.