Through PTI
NEW DELHI: The Railways carried out a check run of the three.5-km-long freight teach, Tremendous Vasuki, with 295 loaded wagons wearing over 27,000 tonnes of coal between Korba in Chhattisgarh and Rajnandgao in Nagpur on August 15, as a part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations.
The teach run through the South East Central Railway left Korba at 13:50 and took 11.20 hours to hide the space of 267 km.
That is the longest and heaviest freight teach ever run through the Railways, the nationwide transporter stated, including the teach takes about 4 mins to go a station.
The quantity of coal carried through Tremendous Vasuki is sufficient to fireplace 3000 MW of energy plant for one complete day, officers stated.
That is thrice the capability of present railway rakes (90 automobiles with 100 tonnes in every) which carries about 9,000 tonnes of coal in a single adventure.
The teach used to be shaped through amalgamating 5 rakes of products trains as one unit.
The Railways plans to make use of this association (longer freight trains) extra often, particularly to move coal in top call for season to stop gas shortages of energy stations, the officers stated.
Previous this yr, coal shortages had driven the rustic right into a critical energy disaster.
NEW DELHI: The Railways carried out a check run of the three.5-km-long freight teach, Tremendous Vasuki, with 295 loaded wagons wearing over 27,000 tonnes of coal between Korba in Chhattisgarh and Rajnandgao in Nagpur on August 15, as a part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations.
The teach run through the South East Central Railway left Korba at 13:50 and took 11.20 hours to hide the space of 267 km.
That is the longest and heaviest freight teach ever run through the Railways, the nationwide transporter stated, including the teach takes about 4 mins to go a station.
The quantity of coal carried through Tremendous Vasuki is sufficient to fireplace 3000 MW of energy plant for one complete day, officers stated.
That is thrice the capability of present railway rakes (90 automobiles with 100 tonnes in every) which carries about 9,000 tonnes of coal in a single adventure.
The teach used to be shaped through amalgamating 5 rakes of products trains as one unit.
The Railways plans to make use of this association (longer freight trains) extra often, particularly to move coal in top call for season to stop gas shortages of energy stations, the officers stated.
Previous this yr, coal shortages had driven the rustic right into a critical energy disaster.
