Rail Analysis India Dec Edition 2017 Digital Magazine | Page 36

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HI-Tech System To Detect
Railway Track Defects
Indian Railways is using Track Recording Cars (TRC)
and Oscillation Monitoring System (OMS) for detection of
track defects in addition to manual inspection.
Ultrasonic Flaw Detection is also done using Single Rail
Tester (SRT) and Double Rail Tester (DRT) to check
internal defects in rails.
Northeast Frontier Railway and North Central Railway.
The implementation of Ultrasonic Broken Rail Detection
(UBRD) System, Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) based
System and Loco-Vision Analytics and Rail Integrity
Monitor system (RIM) shall be decided after successful
completion of trial.
Procurement of six nos. Self Propelled Ultrasonic Rail
Testing (SPURT) Car for detection of internal defects in
rails is also planned.
Further, it has been decided to undertake trial of Ultrasonic
Broken Rail Detection (UBRD) System, Rail Fracture
& Intrusion Detection System using distributed optical
fiber sensing and Loco-Vision Analytics and Rail Integrity
Monitor system (RIM) on some stretches for detection of
broken rail.
Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) based rail fracture detection
system is planned on trial basis on some stretches of
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