Indian
Railways to have one of the biggest Operation Control Centres
The
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) will soon
launch the world’s second-largest Operation Control Centre at Prayagraj,
Uttar Pradesh.
The state-of-the-art Operation Control Centre will act
as the command centre for the entire route length of 1,856 km of the
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC).
The total built-up area of
the centre is 13,030 sq metre and it has been developed on 4.20 acres
land. It is being said to be one of the most modern as well as resilient
control buildings of its kind globally for train operations.
The
divyang-friendly Operation Control Centre has a green building rating
of GRIHA4, equipped with solar power and rain water harvesting. It
houses a theatre of 1,560 sq metre with a video wall of more than 90
metres.
The centre boasts modern interiors, best-in class acoustics and
it has been designed ergonomically considering the needs of traffic
controllers, claims Indian Railways.
The
newly built Operation Control Centre has been equipped with
first-of-its-kind integrated Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition
(SCADA) system and Train Management System (TMS).
According to DFCCIL,
the integrated SCADA system will enable traction controllers to monitor,
control as well as remotely operate power supply equipment at Traction
Sub Stations, Sectioning and Parallelling Posts for the entire network.
Also, it would allow monitoring as well as control of other Auxiliary
Sub Stations and equipment like HVAC, fire alarm at depots, stations and
OCC from single location. Under ‘Make in India’ initiative, the system
has been developed by Alstom, supported by their design teams in
Bengaluru.
The
DFCs- EDFC and Western DFC (WDFC) projects are being executed by the
DFCCIL
The EDFC will consist of two distinct segments- an electrified
double-track segment, covering a distance of 1,409 km between Dankuni
and Khurja and an electrified single-track segment, covering a distance
of 447 km between Ludhiana (Dhandarikalan), Khurja and Dadri.
While
the WDFC will cover a distance of 1,504 km of double line electric (2 X
25 KV) track from Mumbai’s Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) to Dadri
via Vadodara-Ahmedabad-Palanpur-Phulera-Rewari, thus covering the states
of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
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