Trains for inter-city services to be manufactured

By Arun Kumar Das

New Delhi, May 29: Kazipet rail manufacturing unit, a versatile railway rolling stock making company of Indian Railways, will manufacture 200 intercity trains in the next 5 years.

These trains will be deployed throughout the country for short distance travel and will have frequent stops.

These trains will typically run for about 300 km and each trip will have many stops so that the citizens can commute between towns and cities — be it students going for higher education in their adjacent towns, or common people commuting for their health and work needs.

These trains will give the people a new affordable option for intercity travel.

These intercity trains will be like shuttle services connecting adjacent towns across India.

With the production of these trains, a large amount of local traffic is likely to move to railways from roads.

The intercity trains will be equipped with modern features like automatic door closing, superior ventilation and a safe coach design with a 20-coach configuration.

There will be two toilets in every coach, one at each end.

In addition, these intercity trains will have modern jerk free couplers and bogies.

These trains will be designed to run at 130 kmph.

They will have regenerative braking, which means that when the train applies brakes, it will become a generator of electricity & feed the regenerated electricity back into the grid.

It is, therefore, energy efficient and will have significantly less carbon emissions vis-à-vis road transport.