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(b) Of the above, the following items pertain to signalling and interlocking:

(i) Tabulated details Form No. VIII of Rules for Opening of a Railway. (An
example is given at Annexure: 9-A3 for station machinery).

(ii) Drawings of works, plans of station yard showing gradients, the layout of
tracks and signals and interlocking including Locking and Selection
tables/Route Control chart.

(iii) List of Questions and Answers (Annexure: 9-A4).

(iv) Station working Rules (assisting the Operating Branch in their preparation).

(v) Certificate for introducing or extending electric traction, containing details
of maximum value of Traction current (Annexure: 9-A5).

(c) The new line shall be opened for passenger traffic or electric traction shall
be initiated only after the Commissioner of Railway Safety authorises the
Railway to do so after his inspection.

Note: If any part of the work relating to a new line or electrification affects any existing
signalling or interlocking installation, prior sanction of the Commissioner of Railway
Safety shall be obtained for that part of the work and the work executed on the basis of
instructions contained in Section '1' of this Chapter.

Section 4: Introduction of New Types of Locomotives or Rolling
Stock for Increasing Speed

9.4.1 * Introduction of New Types of Locomotives or Rolling Stock or Increase
in Sanctioned Maximum Speed of Existing Locomotives or Rolling Stock:

(a) The Research, Design and Standards Organisation shall apply, for
introduction of new types of locomotives or rolling stock different from those
already running on any section or division of railway administrations for use
by any railway administration, to the Central Government through the
Commissioner.

Explanation: For the purposes to this rule, any increase in sanctioned
maximum speed of existing locomotives or rolling stock shall be treated as
introduction of new types of locomotives or rolling stock.

(b) The application under Para 9.4.1(a) shall be accompanied by:

(i) Such diagrams as may be necessary to give full particulars of the axle
loads, wheel spacing, length over buffers and other principal dimensions
of the rolling stock for which sanction is required;

(ii) Provisional speed certificate or final speed certificate, as the case may
be, issued by the Research, Design and Standards Organisation; and

(iii) The maximum number of motive power units proposed to be coupled
together for multiple operation shall be specifically mentioned.

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