Soon we’ll have Big B of Train 18 ‘Train 19’

News Bharati    25-May-2019
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New Delhi, 25: After the most advanced train of India Train 18, named Vande Bharat Express is successful running, Indian Railways has decided to take a step ahead. Now Railway coach maker Integral Coach Factory (ICF) will take up the design, development and production of Train 19, a sleeper version of Train 18.


 

Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock), said that this year ICF would take up the design, development and production of Train 19 train sets, which are similar to Rajdhani Express. ICF would roll out 40 Vande Bharat Express train sets in the future after replacing the driver cabin crash guard with one made of aluminium.

“In the last fiscal, ICF became the world’s largest railway coach manufacturer, rolling out 3,262 coaches. He expects ICF to produce 4,000 coaches this fiscal,” added Agrawal.

He added that some South East Asian and South American nations had evinced interest in importing Train 18. However, that would be considered after fulfilling the needs of Indian Railways, he said.

According to Agrawal, about Rs 2,500 crore infrastructure improvement projects are being planned for coach production units of Indian Railways, of which Rs 500 crore planned to be spent for ICF.

Agrawal said the Rail Coach Factory at Latur in Maharashtra was likely to be commissioned this year.