New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) More than a decade after it was first developed, railways are still to embrace the Anti-Collision Device (ACE).
This is evident from a reply Minister of State for Railways Bharatsinh Solanki gave in the Rajya Sabha Friday.
The minister said ADC was first developed by Konkan Railway in December 1999.
But the first trial was conducted, in a small section of Northeast Frontier Railway, in January 2001.
Extended field trials took place in the Jalandhar-Amrtisar section from August 2002 to January 203, and then again in Northeast Frontier Railway ‘where it is in service trial from 2006’.
‘The device was to be introduced on all zonal railways only after successful completion of the pilot project’ in the northeast, Solanki said.
When ADC was introduced in Southern Railway, certain ‘operational and technical problems’ came to the surface, he said.
ACD works have been sanctioned on 8,486 route km of railways. ‘The system is planned to be progressively provided on other (zones) after this.’
