The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has initiated interlocking of mid-section level crossing gates in its jurisdiction to enhance safety as the gates would be closed automatically when the train reaches near the specific point and the signal would not allow the train to move if the gate is not closed.
Recently, the ECoR has eliminated all the Unmanned Level Crossings from its jurisdiction and now it has 538 Level Crossing Gates in the mid-section out of 739 Manned Level Crossing Gates.
Altogether, the ECoR has interlocked 412 level crossing gates including 213 manned-level crossing gates in the mid-section and 34 level crossing gates till now, during the current financial year.
Of the total level crossings, 97 mid-section manned level crossing gates have been interlocked till now, whose Train Vehicle Unit (TVU) is more than 50,000. Till the third quarter of the Current Financial Year, ECoR has made 10 such level crossing gates with interlocking system.