Indian Railways announced the installation of the Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with ISRO, on locomotives and trains “for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival and departure or run-through”.

The new system will allow Train Control to more closely monitor the location and speed of RTIS-enabled locomotives and trains.

“They get automatically plotted on the control chart of those trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system. RTIS gives mid-section updates with a periodicity of 30 seconds. The Train Control can now track the location and speed of RTIS enabled locomotives /train more closely, without any manual intervention,” according to a statement from the Ministry of Railways.

These devices have been installed in 2700 locomotives in phase I; in phase II 6000 more locomotives in 50 loco sheds shall be covered.

"RTIS devices have been installed for 2700 locomotives in 21 electric loco sheds. As part of Phase-II roll out, 6000 more locomotives across 50 loco sheds shall be covered by utilizing ISRO’s Satcom hub. Currently, GPS feed from around 6500 Locomotives (RTIS and REMMLOT) is being directly fed into the Control Office Application (COA). This has enabled automatic charting of trains and real-time information flow to passengers through COA and NTES integration,” the ministry statement added.

The Ministry in a statement on Thursday digital payment acceptance is being ramped up at train stations for the purchase of food from catering units. More than 8,878 such units already have the capability.

Also, handheld PoS machines are being provided at catering units to generate printed bills and invoices reflecting all details of transactions undertaken and to address the complaints of overcharging. At present, 3081 POS machines are available on 596 trains. 4316 static units have been provided with POS machines, the ministry said.

IRCTC manages e-catering services for Railways. Passengers can pre-order meals of their choice at the time of booking of e-ticket or while travelling on train using an app, call centre, website or by calling 1323.

E-Catering service is currently available at 310 Railway stations through 1755 Service Providers and 14 Food Aggregators, supplying an average number of 41,844 meals per day.

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