Search results

Nice.... But I think, we can remove the horn from top.

You would be saving approx 1hr in a two way journey in beginning. 1 hour matters a lot.

Hope you people remember when I said that heavier trains are our compulsion. Now read this. https://www.jagran.com/jharkhand/ranchi-railway-wag-12-engine-is-not-successful-in-plateau-regions-of-jharkhand-rail-board-is-losing-revenue-ranchi-news-21804236.html झारखंड के पठारी क्षेत्रों में...

IR records 11k crore earnings from freight in month of June.

Economically not viable for us.

Not heavy trains per se, but heavy coaches. Why? Lets look at some numbers here. One passenger coach on an average carry 90 passengers on a good day. If we count average weight of each passenger to be around 40 kg, it makes a weight of 3 tons+ per coach. With a 24 coach train, the total weight...

Train 18 is made up of Aluminum, composites and FRP. But if you look at Indian Railway, we can't afford to make lightweight locos or coaches. By design we have to make them heavy.

PR involves huge indirect investment which I already mentioned. For investment you need to redirect resources for that. To redirect resources, you need to manage internal politics and industry. In our case, internal industrial sabotage is on another level.

Let me share with you a small news from last year. Sri Lanka had placed an order for 10 locos with India. 8 of those were delivered, but last year one of those engines met a freak accident. The prima facie of the accident occurred seems to be because of faulty track laying which resulted in the...

Its not only the wheels which prevents us from attaining speed of the 160kmph or greater then that. Its a combination of factors. One among them is the rails. With grade 880 rails, even the freight trains are certified to run at 100kmph speed now on DFC. For passenger trains, 130kmph speed is...

https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2020/sep/30/jindal-steel--power%E2%80%8B-gets-approval-from-indian-railways-for-regular-rail-supplier-status-2203921.html

https://nfr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_detail.jsp?lang=0&dcd=1418&id=0,4,268

Classic case of mixing up facts.

We are privatizing only a few trains and all of those are high end or tourist preferred trains. They are anyway expensive for a common Indian. So the expensive count is not much of an worry. The arterial lifeline of railway is still government run.

Rail service to Tripura's Sabroom will start soon: Rly https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/national/582885-rail-service-to-tripuras-sabroom-will-start-soon-rly

Railways speeds up 261 trains under 'Mission Raftaar' https://www.livemint.com/news/india/railways-speeds-up-261-trains-under-mission-raftaar-vande-bharat-humsafar-express-antyodaya-tejas-express-trains-1562037314392.html

ICF now makes more coaches than biggest Chinese firm: Official .. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/icf-now-makes-more-coaches-than-biggest-chinese-firm-official/articleshow/68225646.cms

They should start the Hill Queen express for this. It would be an additional attraction. Apart from this the reinstatement of metre gauge track from Lumding to Lower Haflong would be something to go with with heritage tag. The tea estates and riverine is not going to help much. But the same...

Was watching the live telecast yesterday. The enthusiasm of passengers were also a sight to behold when Modi started waving at them. But the damn MSM, started telecasting Katrina and Deepika just then. Thanks to regional news channel who captured the whole event.