Trackside X-Ray System To Protect Railway Tracks

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  Ramani Aswath

  Maybe the RM's head needs an x ray examination first. How can anyone predict where these detectors should be located?
  Secondly the failure is more often in the fixture of the rail to the sleepers rather than the rail itself. There may be 1000 sleepers to a km of track. Stupendous deployment problem.
  It may be much cheaper to run a vehicle mounted sophisticated track monitoring station along the track once a week or even once a day.
  
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Maybe a better solution to check the track continuity is to charge the track and check for the continuity. I'm not sure how'd this work out; but it surely will be cheaper and can be installed in bulk.
  
  I agree with the vehicle mounted track monitoring system.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Another Idea (that was fast!)
  
  How about installing the track monitoring systems in the last carriage of every railway? This would definitely work on high-traffic train routes; and we can have some other systems for the tracks that don't have that much traffic.
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  Ramani Aswath

  Kaustubh Katdare

  Another Idea (that was fast!)
  How about installing the track monitoring systems in the last carriage of every railway? This would definitely work on high-traffic train routes; and we can have some other systems for the tracks that don't have that much traffic.

  Why not indeed? Good idea.
  Actually it need not be on every train. I doubt if the damage is so acute as to happen in 24 hours. Each terminus can have a system which can be attached to any train as per pre worked out schedule.
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  Rajni Jain

  Definitely tracking systems would helps.
  
  However I believe the problem of these faults are human being who destroy the tracks at many places; in those situations probably these systems may not work as well.
  
  We need a better solution for that; engine mounted system with super power brakes may be one of the way.