Installation of Fire Safety Equipment in Trains
As per latest technical specification for Automatic Fire and Smoke Detection system, there is provision of braking in trains which is activated at a certain alarm level in case of fire inside the coach.
A pilot project for field trail with Automatic Fire and Smoke Detection system has been taken up in one rake of New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express. Besides, one more LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) rake in New Delhi-Jammu Tawi Rajdhani train has also been provided with such system. Based on the feedback from initial trail, technical specification has been revised for extended field trial on representative population of coaches. In the revised specification, Air brake system has been interfaced with Fire and Smoke Detection system for application of brakes in trains in emergency situations.
While two rakes have been provided with Automatic Fire and Smoke detection system, there is no provision of automatic braking of trains in these systems. Provision of braking of trains in case of fire has been made only in the latest specification. Presently sanction of provision on 30 rakes (750 coaches) are available for provision of this system as per latest specification.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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