Unified Train Operation Safety Norms Will Be Issued In 10 days: Ashwini Vaishnaw | Mobility News

A goods train had hit the stationary Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express in the rear killing 10 people including the loco pilot of the goods train in West Bengal.

The CRS had said that differences in subsidiary rules of various railway zones regarding speed restriction during automatic signal failure led to confusion.

“We constituted a committee after discussing the matter with the CRS and initiated the work of reviewing all the subsidiary rules of all 17 zones to bring uniformity to them,” Vaishnaw said.

He added, “We have completed the process and now in another 10 days, unified SR rules applicable to all zones will be issued.”

According to railway officials, the Railway Ministry formulated General Rules (GR) based on which railway zones made their own subsidiary rules to address their local and regional issues. However, SR can’t contradict GR, they said.

“In the Kanchanjunga accident case, it came to light that there were variations in norms regarding maintaining the train speed during the failure of the automatic signaling system. The CRS probe highlighted it after which the Railway Board took it up to resolve,” a railway official said.