THE Indian Railways will put coal movement on its priority list to ensure timely supply of the fuel to power stations, a senior official said.
For this, the Railways has rationalized its freight scheme by specifying dedicated routes linking coal producing areas with power stations.

MUMBAI: In a bid to conserve energy at stations, the Western Railway (WR) has launched a new project that will ensure that lights on platforms switch off automatically when not in use.

"The new plan is called the automatic platform lights controller system. Light controllers will be connected to the railway signals installed at a station.

The railways are trying out several experiments to be environment friendly.
While Central Railway (CR) has begun the process of installation of solar-powered illumination at level crossings along its sections, Western Railway (WR) is one of the first railways to run a train on bio-diesel.

Both these railways have several lakhs of saplings of jathropa seeds along their rail tracks that yield oi

THE Indian Railways has approached Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for setting up 1000 mw of captive nuclear capacity on its behalf. The proposal put forward by the Indian Railways includes setting up two units of 500 mw on railway land.

Praveen Kumar Singh

New Delhi: Indian Railways has planned to set up four bio-diesel plants to reduce its carbon footprint and take forward its experiment with non-conventional form of energy. It is already planting saplings of jatropha, one of the sources of bio-diesel, on pilot basis in partnership with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

COMPLAINTS OF COAL DUST

Vapi: A show cause was issued to Western Railway authorities for environmental pollution at railway goods yard here.

After CNG, the Indian Railways now wants to tap bio-diesel potential to cut down on its operational cost. The Ministry has decided to set up an integrated bio-diesel plant at Chennai. The plant will have a production capacity of 30 tonnes per day.

A bouquet of pacts, including one on deep-sea power cables and another on a rehabilitation centre for Tamil widows, between India and Sri Lanka is likely to be announced when President Mahinda Rajapaksa meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House on Wednesday.

- Hill track journey cut short for second time in four days
Darjeeling, March 29: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway continues to be hit by disruptions. The Unesco World Heritage property ran out of steam once again today because of poor quality of coal.