{"id":648810,"date":"2025-10-04T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648810"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:55:55","slug":"railways-approves-abs-system-for-erode-podanur-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-approves-abs-system-for-erode-podanur-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways approves ABS system for Erode-Podanur stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has approved the installation of an Automatic Block Signalling (ABS) system on the 107-km stretch between Erode and Podanur in the Salem division of Southern Railway. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, the ABS system is operational only in the heavily congested 199-km Chennai-Jolarpettai section. The ABS system is critical for easing congestion on high-density routes, as it reduces distance between two trains running in the same direction by automatically blocking sections of the track and ensuring safe intervals. Additionally, if a loco pilot passes a danger signal, the system cuts off power and brings the train to a halt, further strengthening safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has approved the installation of an Automatic Block Signalling (ABS) system on the 107-km stretch between Erode and Podanur in the Salem division of Southern Railway. Currently, the ABS system is operational only in the heavily congested 199-km Chennai-Jolarpettai section. The ABS system is critical for easing congestion on high-density routes, as it reduces distance between two trains running in the same direction by automatically blocking sections of the track and ensuring safe intervals. Additionally, if a loco pilot passes a danger signal, the system cuts off power and brings the train to a [&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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648810","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=648810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}