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Indian Railways’ big plans for future: Upgraded Vande Bharat trains, new station redevelopment model and more
India is the world's ninth country to manufacture 180 km per hour trainsets and the Vande Bharat trains, at current prices, are comparatively cheaper than their global counterparts.
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Will it be an exaggeration to say that the Indian Railways, on an overall basis, has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years?? You know, station redevelopment, coach upgrades, unmanned crossings reduced to nil, i think, train accidents down, etc......
Absolutely. I travelled by train after 8 years and the quality of service has improved significantly. This is Jodhpur station.
It’s much cleaner than many European and US train stations !!
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On Railway table: New Vande Bharat trains, station revamp model
New world class Vande Bharat trains, a new model for station redevelopment with private players, economy of scale in freight business and foray into global market with indigenous technology-these are some of the plans Indian Railways is working on for a major turnaround under new Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.Officials said that under Vaishnaw, Railways has overhauled the Vande Bharat project, wherein the new trainsets that come in future will have technical specifications that are an upgrade on the current set of Vande Bharat — both in terms of passenger comfort and ride quality.
There have also been talks of eying the global market for export. Officials said that India is only the ninth country in the world to make 180-kmph traisets and at current prices, the Vande Bharat trainsets are cheaper than their global counterparts.
The ambitious station redevelopment project in partnership with private players is also being recast. The Model Concession Agreement for it might be redone with a view to make them more attractive for private players as well as for Railways, sources said.
While only two players have come forward in the first ever tender to run private passenger trains, it has also been decided to overhaul the model completely for better success. Internally, Railways is treating the result of the tender for the 12 clusters as a “good beginning”.
In terms of freight business, the Railways is now exploring a model to bring down the logistics costs, and play with its own freight tariffs to make them more competitive. “By 2024, we aim to overshoot the target and go for maybe 3,000 million tonnes of freight carried in a year, which is around three times the volume carried now,” said a senior official.
Giving a big boost to indigenous manufacturing capability, Railways will also develop its own Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and roll it out through Indian manufacturing partners across 10,000 km to begin with. Renamed “Kavach”, the technology will be an effective alternative for conventional in-cab signalling and also enhance the throughput of the network, officials said.
Vaishnaw is also learnt to have instructed speedy execution of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad project, especially in the Gujarat portion where, unlike Mahrashtra, land acquisition is more or less complete.
On Railway table: New Vande Bharat trains, station revamp model
Officials said that India is only the ninth country in the world to make 180-kmph traisets and at current prices, the Vande Bharat trainsets are cheaper than their global counterparts.
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Under the flagship programs of the Government to cut down on the Green House Gas (GHG) emission, Indian Railways are set to run trains on hydrogen fuel-based technology.
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Faster and smoother train services! Indian Railways completes electrification of over 45,000 Route Km
In a bid to provide better train services, Indian Railways has completed the electrification of 45,881 Route Km. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, has recently said various steps have been taken to complete the projects in time, which include award of large size EPC contracts, assured/committed funds through Extra Budgetary Resource, better project monitoring mechanism, decentralization of powers to field units among others. Here is the total length of Broad Gauge routes, electrified Broad Gauge routes, and railway routes that are yet to be electrified, zone wise as on 31 March 2021:- Central Railway: Out of 3,853 Route km, 3,336 Route km has been electrified and 517 Route km is left
- East Coast Railway: Out of 2,800 Route km, 2,791 Route km has been electrified and 9 Route km is left
- East Central Railway: Out of 4,008 Route km, 3,540 Route km has been electrified and 468 Route km is left
- Eastern Railway: Out of 2,820 Route km, 2,490 Route km has been electrified and 330 Route km is left
- North Central Railway: Out of 3,222 Route km, 2,707 Route km has been electrified and 515 Route km is left
- North Eastern Railway: Out of 3,102 Route km, 2,299 Route km has been electrified and 803 Route km is left
- Northeast Frontier Railway: Out of 4,152 Route km, 652 Route km has been electrified and 3,500 Route km is left
- Northern Railway: Out of 7,062 Route km, 5,512 Route km has been electrified and 1,550 Route km is left
- North Western Railway: Out of 5,248 Route km, 2,186 Route km has been electrified and 3,062 Route km is left
- South Central Railway: Out of 6,206 Route km, 4,145 Route km has been electrified and 2,061 Route km is left
- South East Central Railway: Out of 2,348 Route km, 2,120 Route km has been electrified and 228 Route km is left
- South Eastern Railway: Out of 2,713 Route km, 2,661 Route km has been electrified and 52 Route km is left
- Southern Railway: Out of 4,914 Route km, 3,570 Route km has been electrified and 1,344 Route km is left
- South Western Railway: Out of 3,578 Route km, 1,208 Route km has been electrified and 2,370 Route km is left
- West Central Railway: Out of 3,011 Route km, 3,011 Route km has been electrified
- Western Railway: Out of 4,885 Route km, 3,183 Route km has been electrified and 1,702 Route km is left
- Kolkata Metro: Out of 27 Route km, 27 Route km has been electrified
- Konkan Railway: Out of 740 Route km, 443 Route km has been electrified and 297 km is left
Faster and smoother train services! Indian Railways completes electrification of over 45,000 Route Km
Various steps have been taken to complete the projects, which include award of large size EPC contracts, assured/committed funds through Extra Budgetary Resource, better project monitoring mechanism, decentralization of powers to field units, etc.
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Indian Railways to get first aluminium coaches by early 2022; why it's significant - Times of India
India Business News: Railway Board has given its nod for making 500 aluminium coaches once MCF has the required infrastructure
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Seamless movement! Indian Railways commissions Double Line with Electrification between Vijayawada-Uppaluru
The railway project was sanctioned in the year 2011-12 for 221 Kilometres of distance at an estimated amount of Rs 3,000 crore.
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Mumbai Metro lines 2A and 7: Here is everything you need to know
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