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 through books. Only theoretical knowledge is not sufficien t f o r a b s o l u t e mastery in any field. Theoretical knowledge in our books is not of muchu s e w i t h o u t k n o w i n g i t s p r a c t i c a l i m p l e m e n t a t i o n . I t h a s b e e n experienced that theoretical knowledge is volatile in nature; however practical knowledge imparts solid foundation in our mind. T o a c c o m p l i s h t h i s a s p e c t , R A J A S T H A N T E C H N I C A L UNIVERSITY,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 inR a i l w a y I T i n t e r f a c e a s w e l l a s r e l a t e d f i e l d s . W e h a v e s t u d i e d t h e various uses of IT in railways like PRS,DataLogger, IVRS,FOIS and CRIS.W e h a v e a l s o c o v e r e d t h e R a i l N e t , i t s o b j e c t i v e s , v a r i o u s p h a s e s o f implementation, utility of RailNet and various issues in RailNet. This report is infact a summary of, what I have learnt and seend u r i n g m y t r a i n i n g i n R a i l w a y O r g a n i z a t i o n , K ota. Succeedingc h a p t e r s g i v e d e t a i l s w h a t I h a ve learnt in Divisional RailwayManager (DRM) Office, Kota.

Ayush Maheshwari Final Year (07/186) Information Technology

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

7 Practical Training under WCR:We've received the scheduled Summer Practical Training, as a part of our curriculum,from 17 May, 2010 16 June, 2010 under Divisional Railway Manager,West Central Railway, Kota .V.K.Manglik is the General Manager, West Central Railway and MadhukarMesharam is the DRM of Kota Division presently.We've studied about the following operational technologies in the IR 1.DataLogger/MIS2.IVRS/PRS/UTS3.Overhead/OFC/Quad-Cable communication4.Railnet5.Microwave Communication Kota Division:In the north-south direction the division has Mathura extending to Nagda ,excluding both, route. It includes Chittorgarh-Guna in the west-east route . New zonal railway-West Central Railway caters to 39 districts (24 of M.P.13 of Rajasthan and 2 of U. P.). It has a total route kilometers of 2941.29 kms. of which 1328 route kms. are electrified and a total track kilometers of4664.35. We'll cover the basics of Train Working before discussing about the aforementionoperational technologies . Principles of Train working and need for signaling:All over the world Railway transportation is increasingly used, as this mode of transport is more energy efficient and environmentally friendly than road transportation.Trains move on steel rail tracks and wheels of the railway vehicle are also flanged Steelwheels. Hence least friction occurs at the point of contact between the track & wheels.Therefore trains carry more loads resulting in higher traffic capacity since trainsmove on specific tracks called rails, their path is to be fully guided and there is noarrangement of steering . Clear of obstruction as available with road transportation