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Leaping into action, he immediately stopped the train. Taking complete charge, alongside his co-staffers, he detached the parcel van from the other coaches first and then from the engine.

The Railways’ new ambitious plan is to make double use of a high-speed rail corridor from Delhi to run local metro services to Meerut with the same.

The host of vacancies include technician posts under Group C Level II like fitter, crane driver, blacksmith, and carpenter and Group C Level I (formerly Group D) posts like track maintainer, points man, helper, gateman etc.

Kicked off on 4th March 2014, the idea of the campaign by Nishant, who works in a travel company’s corporate communications department and runs a youth organisation called MUSE, is to decongest Mumbai local trains and save people from falling off.

The Railways will GPS-enable around 2,700 trains by December 2018.

The first train is most likely to run between Delhi-Lucknow or Delhi-Chandigarh.

Under the move, all railway staff colonies, stations and platforms will be lit using power saving LED lights.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 12.64 km Janakpuri West-Botanical Garden part of the corridor on December 25.

The Railway Board, in a meeting held on December 15, gave the green signal to equip over 6,000 electric locomotives with European Train Control System (ETCS) Level-II. A senior Railway Ministry official spoke to IANS saying this technology would help drivers or motor pilots to avert rail mishaps.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently took to Twitter to share the the new features in a video. Have a look!