Good news for the train travellers! The Indian Railways is planning to launch a semi-high speed train set that will be self-propelled with state-of-the-art technology. The Integral Coach Factory (ICF), located in Chennai, is planning to ‘Make in India’, the Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) that can travel at a speed of 160 km/h and will have quicker acceleration as compared to other regular trains. This will save a lot of money and would cost almost half of what it costs in importing.
As per sources, the train sets are currently in the designing phase and once the designs are approved, the manufacturing will start in 2018. For this reason, the Indian Railways have named the project as ‘Train-2018’.
Train-2018 exciting features —
Speed will be 160 km/h.
There will be ‘Automatic Plug-Type’ doors, which will open and close automatically at the stations.
The train will have plush interiors and diffused LED lighting.
Onboard Wi-Fi and infotainment
GPS-based Passenger Information System to be installed.
They will be equipped with under slung 3 Phase IGBT-based propulsion system, which is energy efficient.
The toilets of these coaches will be fitted with zero discharge vacuum based bio-toilets and touch-free fittings.
All coaches to be inter-connected by fully sealed gangways.
More passenger space is proposed.
The train is to have wide windows.
These are all the updates till now. We will keep you posted with more 🙂
