Vande Bharat Express: Vande Bharat sleeper train will run on track soon, coach will be made in Bengal, know full details
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Vande Bharat Express: Very soon the Vande Bharat Express train is going to become a common train. It is being told that the production of sleeper coach of this train is likely to start from June 2025. Commercial production of sleeper coaches of Vande Bharat is being done by Titagarh Rail Systems Limited (TSL) of West Bengal.T.R.S.L.) will be from Uttarpara plant. Giving this information on Tuesday, a senior TRSL official said that the railways has entrusted the work of making 80 sets of Vande Bharat sleeper trains to the alliance established with the public sector undertaking BHEL. This sleeper train of Vande Bharat will be different from the Vande Bharat train currently in operation. In this, instead of sitting seats, seats suitable for sleeping passengers will be installed. He said that the alliance will manufacture 50-55 percent of the spare parts of this train in Bengal itself. TRSL has 52 percent stake in this alliance.
TRSL gets 24,000 crore contract
TRSL Vice Chairman and Managing Director Umesh Chaudhary said that the total value of this contract received from the Railways by the alliance is Rs 24,000 crore, in which TRSL’s share is about Rs 12,716 crore. He said that this contract will be completed within six years. Umesh Chowdhary said that the commercial production of Vande Bharat sleeper train will start from June 2025 and for this necessary infrastructure work has been started at Uttarpara plant. For this, a separate arrangement of Rs 650 crore has been made.
Eight trains will be made at Uttarpara plant
Umesh Chaudhary told that the first prototype of Vande Bharat sleeper train will be prepared within two years. The first eight trains will be completely built at the Uttarpara plant while the remaining trains will be assembled at the railway’s Chennai plant. The Vande Bharat sleeper train will be made in such a way that it can run at a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour. 16 coaches will be installed in it, in which a total of 887 passengers will be able to travel together. He said that the supply of 120 Vande Bharat sleeper trains is going to be done by another tie-up which includes Rail Vikas Nigam Limited and Russian company TMH.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had visited
Integral Coach Factory, Chennai (ICF) was recently visited by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav. He told that after this he told that the process of making Vande Bharat Metro and sleeper coaches is going on well. Apart from this, the Railways is also producing its semi-high speed trains at two other factories, the Modern Coach Factory at Rae Bareli and the Marathwada Rail Coach Factory at Latur. A target has been set to start 75 services of these new era trains by August 15, 2023. Currently only 25 Vande Bharat trains are running in the country. All trains are AC chair car. According to media reports, the sleeper version of Vande Bharat will be operated for a distance of more than 550 km. This train will replace superfast trains like Rajdhani and Duronto trains.
This Vande Bharat train is running now
Currently 25 Vande Bharat Express trains are running in India. These are New Delhi-Varanasi, New Delhi-Katra, Mumbai-Gandhinagar, New Delhi-Amb Andaura, Chennai-Mysore, Bilaspur-Nagpur, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri, Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad, Mumbai-Solapur, Mumbai-Shirdi, Delhi-Rani Kamalapati, Secunderabad-Tirupati, Chennai-Coimbatore, Delhi Cantt-Ajmer, TVC-Kannur, Howrah-Puri, Guwahati-New Jalpaiguri, Anand Vihar-Dehradun, Rani Kamalapati-Jabalpur, Khajuraho-Bhopal-Indore, Madgaon-Mumbai, Dharwad-Bangalore, Ranchi-Patna, Gorakhpur-Lucknow and Jodhpur-Sabarmati.
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