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DBSO 9712, following conversion for use by NI Railways as 8918. A Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO) is a type of railway carriage in Great Britain, converted to operate as a control car; this is not to be confused with DVTs, such as those in InterCity 225 sets. Fourteen such vehicles, numbered 9701 to 9714, were converted from Mark 2F Brake ...
Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...
Wheel flats on railway vehicles are very evident by a distinct “bang-bang” noise made in time with the speed of the train. It is normally necessary to use a wheel lathe to remove a layer of wheel tread caused by a severe flat spot or cavity, which reduces the operational service life of the wheel and is a major operating cost to the rail ...
KAVACH (lit. 'Armour') is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system indigenously developed by Indian Railways through Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO). [1] Initially it was known by the name Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).[2] Kavach was adopted by Ministry of Railways as the National ATP System in July 2020.
The Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the research and development and railway technical specification development organisation under the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India, which functions as a technical adviser and consultant to the Railway Board, the Zonal Railways, the Railway Production Units, RITES, RailTel and Ircon International in respect of design and ...
Lack of a second speed limit below signal speed indicates ACSES is not in service. Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System ( ACSES) is a positive train control cab signaling system developed by Alstom. [ 1] The system is designed to prevent train -to-train collisions, protect against overspeed, and protect work crews with temporary speed ...
Rail inspection is the practice of examining rail tracks for flaws that could lead to catastrophic failures. According to the United States Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis, [1] track defects are the second leading cause of accidents on railways in the United States.
A Technical Specification for Interoperability (abbreviated as TSI) is a text provided for in European Directive 2016/797 [1] adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the interoperability of the European rail system in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure. This directive stipulates that the ...