Ministry of Railways instructs Zonal Railways to link the arrival & departure of trains with Data Loggers

Ministry of Railways

Ministry of Railways instructs Zonal Railways to link the arrival & departure of trains with Data Loggers
A data logger (also data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time or in relation to location either with a built-in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors
41 stations across India records Punctuality of trains through Data Loggers
Punctuality of almost 80% of mail/express trains is being monitored through this system
This system will improve punctuality of trains & provide real time train movement information to passengers.
06 MAR 2018

Ministry of Railways have eliminated the practice of manually recording punctuality performance at 41 major railway junctions across zones to ensure correct reporting of such data. The Railway Board has instructed zonal railways to link the arrival and departure of trains with data loggers from January 1 2018 without the fear of drop in punctuality and report authentic punctuality status.

A data logger (also data recorder) is an electronic device that records data over time by sensing status of relays. Railway zones have provided such data loggers this across 41 stations which include Howrah, Mumbai CST, Mughalsarai, Lucknow, Kanpur, Chennai Central, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.

It has been an endeavour of Indian Railways to run trains punctually and provide information to their customers more current, reliable and accurate, with minimal human intervention. Data Loggers were provided at Stations to monitor the status of functioning of signaling gears. For train control, Optical Fibre network has also been laid and linked to control centres of the Divisions.

It was decided to utilize these data loggers for capturing trains running information & update Control Office Application (COA) automatically at the central server. For this purpose, to start with, the data loggers of one terminal station and one more station at each zonal railway is linked with COA through optical fibre backbone for automatically picking up the train running status. The work at 17 terminal stations and 17 other stations has been implemented as a pilot project. The system has been working since 1st Jan.2018 and extended to total 41 stations. (List attached)

As on date, punctuality of almost 80% of mail/express trains is being monitored through this system. It has been planned to further expand the network covering all the terminal stations. With the implementation of this system, the information available to the passenger is reliable and more current.

List of Railway stations zones where data loggers have been provided :

S.No.	Statio	Division	Railway
1.	Khandwa	Bhusawal	CR
2.	Balahrshah	Nagpur	CR
3.	Roha	Mumbai	CR
4.	Mumbai CST	Mumbai	CR
5.	Asansol	Asansol	ER
6.	Howrah	Howrah	ER
7.	East Outer Cabin	Mughalsarai	ECR
8.	Manpur	Mughalsarai	ECR
9.	Mughalsarai (NEWC)	Mughalsarai	ECR
10.	Goldenganj	Sonpur	ECR
11.	Seemapur	Sonpur	ECR
12.	KIUL	Danapur	ECR
13.	Pradankhunta	Dhanbad	ECR
14.	Bhubaneshwar	Khurda Road	ECoR
15.	Bhadrakh	Khurda Road	ECoR
16.	Duvvada	Waltair	ECoR
17.	Chipyana	Delhi	NR
18.	Palwal	Delhi	NR
19.	Kanpur	Allahabad	NCR
20.	Lucknow Jn	Lucknow	NER
21.	Gorakhpur RRI	Lucknow	NER
22.	Varanasi City	Varanasi	NER
23.	Guwahati	Lumding	NFR
24.	New Bongaigaon-3 cabins	Rangiya	NFR
25.	Rani nagar Jalpaiguri	Katihar	NFR
26.	Old Malda Jn	Katihar	NFR
27.	Katihar RRI-3 cabins	Katihar	NFR
28.	Jaipur	Jaipur	NWR
29.	Rewari	Jaipur	NWR
30.	Chennai Central	Chennai	SR
31.	Jolarpetttai	Chennai	SR
32.	Gudur	Vijayawada	SCR
33.	Secuderabad	Secuderabad	SCR
34.	Jharsuguda	Chakradharpur	SER
35.	Bilaspur	Bilaspur	SECR
36.	Banglore	Banglore	SWR
37.	Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad	WR
38.	Nagda	Ratlam	WR
39.	Bina	Bhopal	WCR
40.	Jabalpur	Jabalpur	WCR
41.	New Katni Jn	Jabalpur	WCR

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