New door locking mechanism on trains soon
Posted on: 13/Feb/2017 11:16:09 AM
Train coaches will now be fitted with an automatic door locking mechanism soon. Under the new system to be controlled by train guard from his cabin, all doors will automatically open when a train arrives at station and close before it departs. Falling off trains is the second major cause of death as well, the first being the cases of persons being run over by trains.
Speaking about this, a senior Railway Ministry official said, Equipped with automatic door locking system, two Rajdhani and two Shatabdi trains will be operational by April this year as a pilot project. Later on, the system will be replicated on all trains including suburban services across the country. Most of the passengers fall or slip from running trains when they struggle to get into a coach and fail to enter it or get dashed against an electric pole beside tracks...There are also cases when many people lost their lives while performing stunts at gates. Trains will not move unless all doors are closed. The guards will have the command control of the system at their cabins. Drivers will also be given command control at a later stage. In the new system, doors will be opened only on the platform side and those of the other side will remain closed, thus eliminating the chances of any unauthorised entry.
