NEW DELHI: The railway ministry has floated a young for procuring a brand new set of 100 Vande Bharat trains with most design velocity of 200km per hour as the federal government is now prioritising introduction of extra semi high-speed trains within the subsequent few years.
With this, it has invited bids for a contemporary set of 400 such trains in three tranches.
Based on the tender doc, these 100 trains could have articulated bogie, aluminium physique and sleeper services. Officers stated contemplating that the life of every such aluminium physique coach is 35 years, the utmost design velocity has been elevated to satisfy future wants as rail tracks can even be upgraded. The utmost design velocity of present Vande Bharat trains – each operational and being manufactured – is 160 kmph.
Articulated expertise is able to negotiating curves on the tracks with out shedding velocity and therefore can cut back the entire journey time to some extent.
Whereas for railways, the deal with solely aluminium our bodies appears promising for the longer term, trade insiders and rail sector consultants stated there can be few bidders who would go for aluminium rather than the chrome steel, which is now getting used. They claimed that the price of aluminium physique can be considerably larger and getting the fabric would additionally take longer.
“We’re going for costly rolling inventory with the goal to run trains at 200 kmph when most of our railway tracks will not be even prepared for trains to function at 130-140 kmph. In a single tender, the railways has stated that the producer should keep the rolling inventory for 35 years and therefore has to create an enormous infrastructure. Even through the use of the chrome steel in manufacturing of coaches we will virtually obtain what the aluminium coaches supply. For quicker roll out of those trains, the federal government ought to give choices to the bidders whether or not they would go for chrome steel or aluminium physique,” stated Lalit Chandra Trivedi, a former common supervisor within the Indian Railways.
The railways goals to roll out 75 Vande Bharat trains by August 15 subsequent yr and one such prepare is predicted to be rolled out earlier than August 15 this yr.
Whereas Vande Bharat trains with seating services can change Shatabdi and intercity specific trains, Rajdhani trains could be changed by Vande Bharat prepare units with sleeper services.
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