{"id":584605,"date":"2023-06-15T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584605"},"modified":"2023-06-15T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:44:16","slug":"railway-board-pulled-up-signalling-staffers-in-april-for-adopting-shortcuts-to-clear-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-board-pulled-up-signalling-staffers-in-april-for-adopting-shortcuts-to-clear-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Board pulled up signalling staffers in April for adopting &#8216;shortcuts&#8217; to clear signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board pulled up its signalling staffers in April for using &#8220;shortcuts&#8221; in the way signalling gears were reconnected by them after maintenance work without proper testing of points. In a letter dated April 3, the Board said five such incidents came to light from various zones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five incidents on the unsafe side involving points have taken place on various zonal railways,&#8221; the board had said, terming these &#8220;alarming and an issue of serious concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said, &#8220;The signalling gears were reconnected by signal and telecom staffers without proper testing of points after blocks for switch\/turnout replacement, wrong wiring during preparatory works, attending signal failures etc.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Board pulled up its signalling staffers in April for using &#8220;shortcuts&#8221; in the way signalling gears were reconnected by them after maintenance work without proper testing of points. In a letter dated April 3, the Board said five such incidents came to light from various zones. &#8220;Five incidents on the unsafe side involving points have taken place on various zonal railways,&#8221; the board had said, terming these &#8220;alarming and an issue of serious concern&#8221;. The letter said, &#8220;The signalling gears were reconnected by signal and telecom staffers without proper testing of points after blocks for switch\/turnout replacement, wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}