In connection with the above incident an internal preliminary enquiry report has been submitted by a three member committee comprising of ED (Safety), ED (Rolling Stock) and GM (Operations) to the Managing Director of DMRC.
INCIDENT DETAILS
The emergency brakes of this train were applied because there was a problem in the software of the communication system which indicates the interlinkage between coaches. As a result of this break in communication, the train applied the emergency brakes as it was falsely reading as if the train was parted which it considered as an emergency situation and therefore it applied emergency brakes.
The Managing Director of DMRC Sh. Mangu Singh after receiving the preliminary report and the feedback from the general public received through the media reports has taken the following decisions in the matter.
(1) In case passengers are stranded in the underground tunnel without lights and proper ventilation for more than 10 minutes, the DMRC operational managers have been asked to initiate evacuation of passengers in future.
(2) DMRC engineers have been asked to examine the feasibility of having a secondary backup system for train lightning and ventilation in an emergency situation to ensure that lights/ ventilation are always ‘ON’.
(3) Inside the underground tunnel adequate tunnel lighting and ventilation should be ensured and any natural obstruction should be painted with luminous painting to avoid acting as a hurdle for passengers in case they are being evacuated from the tunnel. The tunnel lighting in the underground tunnel should be reoriented by the Metro Electrical Engineers so that a clear view of the underground passage is available to the commuters in an evacuation scenario.
(4) The DMRC will launch a big awareness campaign to cover the 2.2 million commuters using the Metro system to spread awareness about the procedures to be adopted during such emergency situations.
(5) In such emergency situations the DMRC Operational Managers should normally evacuate passengers if they are not able to rectify the fault through local trouble shooting and in case a rescue train has to be thrust into service the same will be done on the orders of the Operation Control Centre (OCC).
The decision to evacuate passengers or use rescue trains will be taken keeping in view the above guidelines depending upon that particular location, situation and circumstances of that occasion.
Such a failure has happened for the first time and the same is being investigated by a team of engineers from DMRC and the manufacturer to avoid recurrence of such incident.
INCIDENT DETAILS
The emergency brakes of this train were applied because there was a problem in the software of the communication system which indicates the interlinkage between coaches. As a result of this break in communication, the train applied the emergency brakes as it was falsely reading as if the train was parted which it considered as an emergency situation and therefore it applied emergency brakes.
The Managing Director of DMRC Sh. Mangu Singh after receiving the preliminary report and the feedback from the general public received through the media reports has taken the following decisions in the matter.
(1) In case passengers are stranded in the underground tunnel without lights and proper ventilation for more than 10 minutes, the DMRC operational managers have been asked to initiate evacuation of passengers in future.
(2) DMRC engineers have been asked to examine the feasibility of having a secondary backup system for train lightning and ventilation in an emergency situation to ensure that lights/ ventilation are always ‘ON’.
(3) Inside the underground tunnel adequate tunnel lighting and ventilation should be ensured and any natural obstruction should be painted with luminous painting to avoid acting as a hurdle for passengers in case they are being evacuated from the tunnel. The tunnel lighting in the underground tunnel should be reoriented by the Metro Electrical Engineers so that a clear view of the underground passage is available to the commuters in an evacuation scenario.
(4) The DMRC will launch a big awareness campaign to cover the 2.2 million commuters using the Metro system to spread awareness about the procedures to be adopted during such emergency situations.
(5) In such emergency situations the DMRC Operational Managers should normally evacuate passengers if they are not able to rectify the fault through local trouble shooting and in case a rescue train has to be thrust into service the same will be done on the orders of the Operation Control Centre (OCC).
The decision to evacuate passengers or use rescue trains will be taken keeping in view the above guidelines depending upon that particular location, situation and circumstances of that occasion.
Such a failure has happened for the first time and the same is being investigated by a team of engineers from DMRC and the manufacturer to avoid recurrence of such incident.
