SCR to launch new logo

South Central Railway (SCR) will unveil a new logo on October 8, to mark its completion of 40 years of service to the nation.

The new logo, with a circular design highlighted by the outside impression of a railway track, and six stars denoting the six divisions of SCR, would be displayed on all SCR's locomotives alongside its old logo for a year.

Announcing this at a press conference here, SCR general manager DN Mathur said SCR had resolved to provide better amenities and high technology facilities to its passengers during its ruby jubilee year.

"SCR would invest around Rs 55 crore in providing passenger amenities this year as compared with Rs 38 crore last year," he said.

Besides, it would be installing surveillance systems at Bhoiguda, Nampalli, Kachiguda, Tirupati, Raipur and Gunthakal stations by the end of this year.

"Currently we have computer ticketing facility at 45 stations across our six divisions. This year, we are going to extend the facility to 40 more stations," he said.

Mathur said that one of SCR's engineers had developed a GPS-based LCD monitoring system that would display the exact location of a running train. The railways had already designed a prototype of the monitoring system and had made a proposal to the Union railway ministry with regard to its installation.

"We are awaiting the ministry's nod in a couple of months. Once we get the approval, we would install the system in all our chair cars by March 2007," he said.

Besides the release of a new logo, he said, SCR was planning to organise various programmes from October 8-18 which include releasing of a hand book "" South Central Railway: 40 Glorious Years "" , releasing of a special postal cover, flagging off a commemorative heritage steam train from Secunderabad to Falaknuma and beyond, and inauguration of a 'Rail Heritage Museum' at SCR's butterfly shed in Secunderabad.