India, Sept. 29 -- Central Railway (CR) on Sunday completed trials of KAVACH, an automatic train protection system in locomotives, at Somatne, Apta, and Jite stations in the Panvel-Roha section.

KAVACH is designed to enhance safety in trains by preventing signal passing at danger (SPAD), overspeeding and collisions. According to the railway officials, the system uses radio links for acquiring real-time signalling information and the location of the locomotives. The system processes the collected data to enforce movement authority (MA) limits, meaning the permission to move along a section of track under safe conditions, speed limits and safety margins, ensuring safer and more efficient train operations.

As many as 730 locomotives under ...