Kolkata: Eastern Railway has added a safety feature at three level crossings on the Karnasubarna-Khagraghat Road section in Murshidabad district, where an accident killed four schoolchildren and a cyclist in July. The feature will enable the station master sitting in the office to track whether a level crossing is open or closed.ER general manager Gitika Pandey and other officials were present during the launch.“The NILC Auto PN (Private Number) System for real-time monitoring was successfully commissioned at three level-crossing gates on the Karnasubarna–Khagraghat Road section on Wednesday,” said an official. All three level crossings are Non-Interlocked Level Crossings (NILCs), which are railway gates that are not connected to the train signal system.In July, a train had rammed a pool car ferrying students and killed four of them, as well as a cyclist. A preliminary probe revealed that the car and the cyclist moved across the level crossing after the gate opened, but got trapped on the tracks as the gateman, alerted by the horn of the approaching local train, promptly closed the gate again.
