Agra: India’s first centralized traffic control system to be installed at Tundla railway station
Tundla railway station will become India's railway station to have Centralised Traffic Control (CTC) system. The system is being installed in the Kanpur-Ghaziabad section of North Central Railway (NCR), one of the busiest and most congested corridors of the Indian Railway.
Agra: Tundla becomes the first railway station of the country to have Centralised Traffic Control (CTC) system, to control train traffic from one location. The CTC will be functional from June end. The system is being installed in the Kanpur-Ghaziabad section of North Central Railway (NCR), one of the busiest and most congested corridors of the Indian Railway. On an average, more than 400 trains pass over this section every day from Freight, oil tankers to passengers trains. CTC would ensure less traffic and easier operations.
Ghaziabad-Kanpur corridor was still being carried out by station masters, train crew staff, and local signal operators.
In a report by the Times of India (TOI), Amit Malviya, Public Relation Officer of NCR said, “What makes CTC unique is that the signaling functions are operated from a centralized location instead of a distributed operation from individual stations.”
"The project is being executed at a cost of Rs 40 crore, it has several important advantages such as efficient time-table management of train operations, up to six train movements on a route at a particular period which will save time and resources; facility for real-time detection and online rectification of mistakes if any are committed by the controller among others,” Malviya added.
The general manager of NCR, M C Chauhan told TOI, “CTC will be a game changer for train operations as it would allow planning and operations of trains from a centralized location. The benefits of CTC will be reflected both in enhanced punctuality and in ensuring train passage is clear or does not have any obstructions.”