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Business News/ Industry / Infrastructure/  Railways to soon start trial runs of Vande Bharat-type trains between Mumbai to Pune, Nashik, Vadodara
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Railways to soon start trial runs of Vande Bharat-type trains between Mumbai to Pune, Nashik, Vadodara

Traffic congestion and upgradation of infrastructure including the tracks are bigger challenges for the railways
  • Railways has planned to run 12 AC locals in Mumbai, six each on the Central and Western suburban lines
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    After the success of Vande Bharat Express, Indian Railways is all set to explore the the possibility of running such semi-high speed trains between Mumbai to Pune, Nashik and Vadodara.

    "We want to check whether the same train can be replicated for Mumbai to Pune or Mumbai to Nashik or Mumbai to Baroda (Vadodara)....trial runs will begin in the next week," member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board Rajesh Agrawal told news agency PTI in Mumbai.

    "We are going to start trial runs from the next week on the Vande-Bharat pattern. One AC-EMU rake and one non-AC MEMU rake will be given to the Central and Western Railways.

    If the trial goes as per plan, we can reduce the travel time between Mumbai to Pune and Nashik to within two hours," said Agrawal, an ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India.

    "No final decision has been taken yet. As of now, we are going to explore only the possibility," he said.

    Traffic congestion and upgradation of infrastructure including the tracks are bigger challenges for the railways, he said.

    Agrawal also said that by the end of March 2020, the railways has planned to run 12 AC locals in Mumbai, six each on the Central and Western suburban lines.

    "We have no shortage of coaches as the coach production has seen a quantum jump...Till previous year, all coach factories used to produce less that 4,000 coaches annually and this year the number has been scaled up to 6,000.

    Next year our target is to produce 8,000 coaches," he said.

    The ICF will also roll out 40 Vande Bharat Express train sets while fitting with the driver cabin crash guard with aluminium design in place of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) used now.

    Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock), said this year ICF will take up design, development and production of Train 19 sets similar to Rajadhani Express.

    With Inputs from PTI

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    Published: 05 Jun 2019, 05:35 PM IST
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