Air brakes on toy train, a downhill trial away

The railway have been driven by the safety concern to slam the break on the brakemen of the toy train. After the successful trial of the heritage on wheels, now fitted with airbrakes, the air-brake was successfully tried on the diesel engine-hauled Darjeeling Himalayan Railway from Siliguri to Darjeeling today.

On board today’s special run were S. Srinivas, the director of Research and Designs Standard Organisation, a wing of the Indian Railways, and B. Paswan, the deputy chief mechanical engineer (workshop) from Northeast Frontier Railway headquarters in Malegaon (Assam). They were accompanied by representatives of Cummins Diesel (engine manufacturers) and San Engineering and Locomotive Company (locomotive manufacturers) and a host of engineers and railway officials. `In the next month air-braking system will be lounged by the railway if final clearance is delivered. In the past we have faced several problems regarding the air-brakes during its downhill journey,` said Mr. Srinivas. A lot of rectification have already been done and with a new thinking the railway is going forward to rectify the others problems to run the train for the visitors. According to the officials this kind of system can safe the journey of the tourists and the brakemen can easily do their work without any risk.

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