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Preface
Dear friends,
I am an engineer by qualication and a signaling and telecommunication
professional by occupation. I work in the Signaling and Telecommunication
Department of the Indian Railways. Our job is to install and maintain vari-
ous signaling and telecommunication equipment required for railway oper-
ations. We have a phenomenal variety of signaling equipment with us, from
the oldest semaphore signaling systems to the latest electronic interlocking
systems and a variety of trafc control, management, protection, and data
logging systems. On the telecommunication front, we are engaged in the
installation, operation, and