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12 FEBRUARY 2020 AL CIRCLE

India should get ready to travel in world-class Aluminium coaches: Indian Railways to acquire new technology

EDITED BY : RUPANKAR MAJUMDER 2MINS READ

Indian Railways braced for world-class aluminium coaches.

Indian Railways Aluminium Coaches

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Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce, India, led the occasion to award a Transfer of Technology (ToT) contract to a Korean company for the development of potentialities for production to the commissioning of aluminium-bodied coaches.

The complete overhaul of Indian Railways train coaches, as well as the procurement of full train rakes from foreign suppliers for Indian Railways, is not in the Railway Ministry’s plan. However, the ToT has been awarded by the Modern Coach Factory in Rae Bareli to acquire the capability to make world-class aluminium coaches.

The ToT includes development, designing, manufacturing as well as testing of aluminium body passenger coaches of eight variants. Out of the eight variants, five variants are of broad gauge loco-hauled coaches, while three variants are of standard gauge metro coaches.

The aluminium-bodied coaches are expected of attaining speed up to 250 kmph – in line with Indian Railways dream of semi-high speed train travel.

Piyul Goyal communicated that based on these facilities, the manufacturing of Indian Railways coaches shall be done at the Modern Coach Factory and not through import.

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The Railway Minister in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha stated that as of now there is no plan to start the import of complete train sets for Indian Railways from foreign suppliers.


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