Indian Railways (IR) has begun testing a new push-pull train
08.11.2023
Indian Railways (IR) has begun testing a new push-pull train set called Vande Sadharan locomotive traction, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.
According to local media reports, two such train sets will undergo operational trials this month on the Mumbai-Nashik line, spanning 169 kilometers.
Each train consists of two 4.4 MW electric locomotives from the WAP-5 series and 22 passenger coaches based on the LHB series (12 sleeper cars, 8 seated cars, and 2 luggage cars).
The rolling stock was assembled at two IR facilities: ICF in Chennai and CLW in Chittaranjan. It has a seating capacity of 1,834 passengers and a maximum operational speed of 130 km/h.
Information about the order for this train set is not available in open sources.
The carrier refers to Vande Sadharan as a budget version of Vande Bharat, as the cost of the new train is half, at 600 million rupees ($7.2 million), compared to 1.2 billion rupees ($14.4 million).
The cost-effectiveness is partly due to the absence of an air conditioning system in the rolling stock.
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