#109 — The World's Most Modern ETCS Runs in India, with Vinay Kumar Singh

When people picture the most advanced ETCS in the world, they think Europe. They should look at Delhi. The Regional Rapid Transit System runs ETCS Level 2 with Hybrid Train Detection, Automatic Train Operation, and LTE radio in place of GSM-R. Every modern feature, in one system.

My guest is Vinay Kumar Singh, then Managing Director of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation, the organisation that delivered it. We recorded while the first corridor was still under construction. This February the full 82-kilometre line from Delhi to Meerut opened, covering the distance in under an hour.

We talk about the signalling that makes 20 trains an hour possible, and much more in the future, moving freight on a passenger railway, and the three things Vinay says decide whether a megaproject succeeds or fails. All of it off the cuff, no scripted questions.

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