CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday flagged off a 3000 HP Cape Gauge locomotive indigenously developed by the Banaras Locomotive Works to be exported to Mozambique.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is a category for railways of 3 ft 6 in (1, 067 mm), or Cape gauge, mainly in Africa. The name “Cape gauge” is not used universally and most other countries refer to the gauge as 3 ft 6 in or 1, 067 mm instead.

Detailed explanation-3: -T/P, T/G, or T/BOXN (painted on a yellow circular board) : Termination of speed zone for, respectively, passenger trains, goods trains, and goods trains with BOXN wagon rakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Detonating signals - Detonating signals otherwise known as detonators or fog signals are appliances which are fixed on the rails, and when an Engine (or vehicle) passes over them, they explode with a loud report so as to attract the attention of the Driver.

Detailed explanation-5: -The caution indicator is usually placed 700m before a Speed Indicator board (see below) and 800m before the actual point of permanent way work or other cause of restriction. Drivers have to slow down to the speed indicated on the speed restriction board by the time they reach it.