Western Railways installing night vision cameras in trains

Vadodara: Western Railway has installed cameras on 17 electric engines in Vadodara electric Loco Shed so far as part of the project of installing night vision cameras on the electric engines to prevent accidents and get information of the actions taken by the Loco Pilot during accidents.

Western Railway has planned to install 3000 cameras on 500 engines. Total 8 cameras will be installed on one electric engine. They will be installed inside and outside of the cabin of the Loco Pilot in engines. The cameras installed outside of the engine will provide information about the faults in signals, and breaking of overhead wires. The cameras installed inside the engine will record the movements of the driver and other actions.

The cost of installing cameras in one engine is around Rs 1,04,338. The storage capacity of one camera is 2 terabytes. It will save the footage for 90 days.

The cameras are called CVVRS (Crew Voice and Video Recording System). The night electric vision camera will be installed in 7 engines in Vatva electric loco shed. The 3000 cameras will be installed in 500 engines of Western railway if the pilot project goes successful. The experts informed that the work of night vision cameras installed in the loco pilot cabins will be similar to the Black Box in the aeroplanes.