Diamond Crossing at Nagpur

Diamond Crossing at Nagpur:

Railway Crossing at Nagpur called Diamond Crossing. It is the point where India cross from North to South & east to west..

Situation-1: Trains from West Terminating at Nagpur: (Sewagram, Nandigram, Pune-Nagpur GR, Prerana) - No Diamond Crossing

Situation-2: Trains from Itarsi side terminating at Nagpur (BSL-NGP, INDB-NGP, etc.) – No Diamond Crossing

Situation 3: Trains from Bilaspur side terminating at Nagpur: Pass through Diamond Crossing to enter NGP station

Situation 4: Trains from West going to East (Azad Hind, Jnaneshwari, PUNE/CSTM-HWH Duronto, etc.) – Cross the Diamond crossing to continue their journey towards Gondia / Bilaspur

                                        A schematic diagram of a dual gauge diamond crossing

Situation 5: Trains from South going to North (Rajdhanis/TN/GT/Kerala/AP/Dakshin/APSK/TNSK/KSK, etc.)  

– These trains enter Nagpur from Balharshah – Sewagram side. As Sewagram is on the CSTM-NGP-HWH Mainline, these trains enter NGP from mainline itself just like the trains from West-East do. As a result, you can see the above trains on any of PFs at NGP. 

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When they depart NGP, they take a left turn towards Amla / Itarsi side. The passengers in these trains are able to see the diamond crossing on the right side, but they do not cross it as the train is entirely on a different track. 

Situation 6: Narrow Gauge trains of NGP (SECR) Cross the Diamond Crossing (NGP-CWA Passenger)

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Dubai Rotating Skyscraper: World first building in Motion

Dubai Rotating Skyscraper: World first building in Motion

The world’s first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says. The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.

“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York. “This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime,” he added. The 420-metre (1,378-foot) building’s apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

The slender building would be energy self-sufficient as the turbines would produce enough electricity to power the entire building and even feed extra power back into the grid, said the Italian architect at the unveiling of the project in New York. The apartments, which will take between one and three hours to make a complete rotation, will cost from $3.7m to $36m. There are also plans to build a similar, 70-storey skyscraper in Moscow. “I call these buildings designed by time, shaped by life,” said the Florence-based architect, who has never built a sky-scraper before. “These buildings will open our vision all around, to a new life.” The skyscraper will cost an estimated $700m to build and should be up and running in Dubai in 2010.