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Railways links locomotives via ISRO satellites to automatically feed train status

Railways links locomotives via ISRO satellites to automatically feed train status

New Delhi: Good news for train passengers: the Indian Railways has linked its locomotives via ISRO satellites, making it easy to track trains and automatically feed the control charts about the trains arrival and departure, officials said. "A new beginning has been made in the new year: the train movement information is acquired and fed to the control charts using ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) satellite-based real-time train information system (RTIS) automatically," a senior railway ministry official told IANS. The official said that the system was implemented on January 8, on some of the mail or express trains on the Shri…
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