1 PRACTICAL TRAINING REPORT ON COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALLINGAT RAILWAYS TRAINING TAKEN FROM(May 17,2010 to 18 June,2010)

SITE OF TRAININGSIGNAL AND TELE ENGINEERING DEPTT.,ESTERN CENTRAL RAILWAYS,DIVISIONAL OFFICE-GORAKHPUR

SUBMITTED BY: SAURABH SINGH

FINAL YEAR-

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Any collateral activity cannot be truly finished without the help &enthusiasm of the supervisors involved. Additional technical assistancewere provided by many individuals.I would like to express the deepest appreciation to theDRM(Signal & Telecommunication), Mr. R.K. Kataria for the guidanceand persistent throughout the training period.Also, I would like to thank the DRM employees who elaboratedthe technical details of the various technologies ongoing in theirdepartment.It has been a pleasure working with the DRM, Kota in theenhancement of my technical knowledge. I owe gratitude to manyindividuals involved in the development of this report.

PREFACE Engineering students gain theoretical knowledge only throughbooks. Only theoretical knowledge is not sufficient for absolutemastery in any field. Theoretical knowledge in our books is not of muchuse without knowing its practical implementation. It has beenexperienced that theoretical knowledge is volatile in nature; howeverpractical knowledge imparts solid foundation in our mind. To accomplish this aspect, RAJASTHAN TECHNICALUNIVERSITY, KOTA has included training for students of B.Tech. III Year of 30 days in our curriculum.We have covered in this report the history ,latest developments inRailway IT interface as well as related fields. We have studied thevarious uses of IT in railways like PRS,DataLogger, IVRS,FOIS and CRIS.We have also covered the RailNet, its objectives, various phases of implementation, utility of RailNet and various issues in RailNet. This report is infact a summary of, what I have learnt and seenduring my training in Railway Organization, Kota. Succeedingchapters give details what I have learnt in Divisional RailwayManager (DRM) Office, Kota. Ayush MaheshwariFinal Year (07/186) Information Technology

4 Table Of Contents Indian Railway(organizational structure) ________________ 1 Signaling _______________________________________________ 3 DataLogger _____________________________________________ 9 Train Charting ___________________________________________

12 Passenger Reservation System ________________________ 15 IVRS _____________________________________________________ 16 Microwave Communication ________________________________ 20 Railnet____________________________________________________ 22 Optical Fiber Communication _____________________________ 30 OFC Network at IR ________________________________________ 33

5 INDIAN RAILWAY INTRODUCTION:Indian Railway (Hindi: ) is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. It is overseen by theMinistry of Railways of the Government of India.India boasts one of the worlds largest railway network in the world. Every day, 20million people travel around the country in hundreds of trains running between variousstations smoothly and safely.The formal inauguration ceremony of IR was performed on 16th April 1853

with the first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, adistance of 36 km, on 15th August, 1854 . Snapshots: It encompasses 6,909 stations over a total route length of more than 63,028 kilometres of route length and a track length of 111,600 km . It is one of the world's largest commercial or utility employers, with more than1.6 million employees. It grossed a revenue of ` 88,355 cr and bagging a net income of ` 951 cr inthe financial year 2009-10 . It moves

2 million tons of freight & 20 million people daily across thecounty with the help of 200,000 (freight) wagons. 7,000 passenger trains across the country services 20 million people totheir destinations . Vivek Sahai is the current Chairman of Railway Board . Organisational Structure:IR is a department owned and controlled by the Government of India, the Ministry of Railways . IR is administered by the Railway Board, which has a financialcommissioner, five members and a chairman.

Training Report: Indian Railway