13 Trains from (CLD)CHALSA JN to (SGUJ)SILIGURI JN

N. F. Railway o­n 20^th March, 2023 signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RailTel Corporation of India Ltd, for installation of Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to avert train-elephant collision and disaster mitigation measures. N. F. Railway has been taking many initiatives to prevent and detect movement of wild animals, especially elephants, approaching the tracks. Installation of IDS in important sections is o­ne such of them.

 The MoU was signed by G.R. Das, Chief Communication Engineer, N. F. Railway and Zakir Siddiqui, Executive Director/Eastern Region/Railtel in presence of Shri Anshul Gupta, General Manager/N. F. Railway and Shri Sanjay Kumar, Chief Managing Director/RailTel Corporation of India Ltd.

After 100% success of the pilot project o­n IDS that was undertaken by N.F. Railway in the Chalsa – Hasimara section of the Dooars area under Alipurduar Division in West Bengal and Lanka – Hawaipur section under Lumding Division in Assam, it has now been decided to install the system gradually in all other elephant corridors spread over N.F. Railway.

 The system is based o­n Artificial Intelligence (AI) and existing optical fibres will be used as sensors to identify movements of wild animals at locations and alert control offices, station masters, gateman and loco pilots. It uses fibre optic based acoustic system working o­n the principle of dialysis scattering phenomenon to sense the real time presence of elephants o­n the track. The AI based software can monitor un-usual movements up to a stretch of 60 km. In addition to it the IDS will also help in detecting rail fracture, trespassing o­n railway track and alert about disaster mitigation due to unauthorised digging near railway tracks, landslides near tracks etc.

It is important to mention here that the pilot project has already been immensely successfully in saving lives of many elephants approaching railway track from being hit by trains.

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PRESS RELEASE

RUNNING OF RAIL POST GATI SHAKTI EXPRESS CARGO SERVICE

Kolkata, 17th February, 2023: 

It has been decided to run Rail Post Gati Shakti Express Cargo Service to facilitate joint Parcel Products of India Post and Indian Railways. These Time Tabled Parcel Express Trains will run between Sankrail Goods Terminal-Bhiwandi and Sankrail Goods Terminal-Guwahati. In addition to that, another Parcel Express Train will also run between Sir M.Visveswaraya Terminal (Bengaluru)-Guwahati  via Kharagpur as per the given schedule:- 

Sankrail Goods Terminal-Guwahati-Sankrail Goods Terminal Time Tabled Parcel Express

00807 Sankrail Goods Terminal-Guwahati Parcel Express will leave Sankrail Goods Terminal every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday w.e.f 21.02.2023 at 20.30 hrs and will reach Guwahati at 07.00 hrs o­n the third day. In the return direction, 00808 Guwahati-Sankrail Goods Terminal Parcel Express will leave Guwahati every Thursday, Friday and Monday w.e.f 23.02.2023 at 14.00 hrs and will reach Sankrail Goods Terminal at 19.30 hrs o­n the second day. This Parcel Express Train will stop at Malda Town, Rangapani, New Jalpaiguri, Siliguri, Alipurduar and New Bongaigaon. 

Bhiwandi-Sankrail Goods Terminal-Bhiwandi Time Tabled Parcel Express

00121 Bhiwandi-Sankrail Goods Terminal Parcel Express will leave Bhiwandi every Monday w.e.f 20.02.2023 at 22.00 hrs and will reach Sankrail Goods Terminal at 18.00 hrs o­n every Wednesday.  In the return direction, 00122 Sankrail Goods Terminal-Bhiwandi Parcel Express will leave Sankrail Goods Terminal every Thursday w.e.f 23.02.2023 at 19.30 hrs and will reach Bhiwandi at 12.40 hrs o­n every Saturday. This Parcel Express Train will stop at Mecheda, Panskura, Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Rourkela and Jharsuguda in SER jurisdiction.

Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal (Bengaluru)-Guwahati-Sir M Visvesvaraiya Terminal Time Tabled Parcel Express(One Trip)

00635 Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal-Guwahati Parcel Express leaving Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal at 07.40 hrs every Thursday w.e.f 16.02.2023 will reach Guwahati at 19.00 hrs o­n every Sunday. In the return direction, 00636 Guwahati-Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Parcel Express will leave Guwahati every Monday w.e.f 20.02.2023 at 04.00 hrs and will reach Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal at 18.00 hrs o­n 23.02.2023. This Parcel Express Train will stop at Kharagpur and Sankrail Goods Terminal in SER jurisdiction. 

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