{"id":584663,"date":"2023-06-15T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T05:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=584663"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:38:03","slug":"railway-board-pulled-up-signalling-staff-in-april-for-adopting-short-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-board-pulled-up-signalling-staff-in-april-for-adopting-short-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Board pulled up signalling staff in April for adopting &#8216;short-cuts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signalling staffers were pulled up by the Railway Board in April for using &#8220;short-cuts&#8221; for reconnecting the signalling gear after maintenance work without proper testing of points.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated April 3, the board said five such incidents were reported from various railway zones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five incidents on the unsafe side involving points have taken place on various zonal railways,&#8221; it said, describing these incidents as &#8220;alarming and an issue of serious concern&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#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; the letter read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signalling staffers were pulled up by the Railway Board in April for using &#8220;short-cuts&#8221; for reconnecting the signalling gear after maintenance work without proper testing of points. In a letter dated April 3, the board said five such incidents were reported from various railway zones. &#8220;Five incidents on the unsafe side involving points have taken place on various zonal railways,&#8221; it said, describing these incidents as &#8220;alarming and an issue of serious concern&#8221;. &#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 [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584663","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=584663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}