13 August 2004

You are Computer savvy? Sometimes it doesn't help

British railway has been recently helped by Indian Railways for fixing some victorian-era signaling boxes.

Britain's Network Rail did not have qualified engineers who could revamp the system dating back 19th century. Finally, they got help from engineers from Indian Railways, world's largest employer as they still use old manually operated signalling system at many places.

Details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3561640.stm

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