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The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
Primarily, Kavach works on the principle of continuous supervision of the movement authority and is designed to maintain train speed within the specified limits and can automatically apply brakes to slow down or to bring the train to a complete standstill, incase the Loco Pilots violates the speed restrictions or fails to act in time to prevent Signal Passed At Danger (SPAD); thereby reducing ...
1,200+. On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district in the east Indian state of Odisha. The accident occurred around 19:00 IST when Coromandel Express, a passenger train, collided with a stationary goods train near Bahanaga Bazar railway station on the Howrah–Chennai main line. Due to the high speed of the passenger train and ...
In 1802 Madras Time was set up by John Goldingham [7] and this was later used widely by the railways in India. [8] Local time zones were also set up in the important cities of Bombay and Calcutta and as Madras time was intermediate to these, it was one of the early contenders for an Indian standard time zone.
Amritsar train incident. On 19 October 2018, two Indian Railways passenger trains hit a crowd of people in the eastern outskirts of Amritsar, Punjab, killing at least 59 people and injuring approximately 100 more. The crowd had gathered to watch celebrations for the Hindu festival of Dussehra and were standing on the tracks.
The key goals behind introducing railway time were to overcome the confusion caused by having non-uniform local times in each town and station stop along the expanding railway network [1] and to reduce the incidence of accidents and near misses, which were becoming more frequent as the number of train journeys increased. Railway time was ...
12 December 1991 – The Kangra valley train suffered a crash near Jawali, Himachal Pradesh, killing 27. [ 74 ] 5 September 1992 – A collision near Raigarh in Madhya Pradesh killed 41. [ 72 ][ 75 ] 16 January 1993 – The Howrah Rajdhani Express collided with a goods train between Roorah and Ambiyapur flag stations.
That spike is even higher — about 8 percent — if you live on the western edge of your time zone. To mitigate the risk of a car crash, health experts recommend easing into the time shift ...