Railway changing all standard coaches with LHB to make sure zero casualties in derailment
4 min readBy Express News Service
NEW DELHI: To guarantee zero casualties in case of derailment or head-on collisions between two trains on similar tracks, the railway has began engaged on a mission mode to exchange all the prevailing rakes of standard outdated coaches from the passenger trains with LHB (Link Hofmann Busch) coaches. The LHB coaches at the moment are being manufactured with German expertise and design to safe most security and luxury to the passengers.
The standard coaches within the passenger trains in Indian Railway had been used greater than 40 years in the past to satisfy the protection requirements when the trains had a most working velocity of 60 to 80 kmph. But now with a rise in velocity as much as 180kmph, the outdated standard coaches will not be secure and appropriate.
Speaking to this newspaper, a senior railway official stated that at a time when the railway has elevated the velocity of trains after strengthening tracks and progressively making infrastructure developments, the alternative of outdated standard coaches has grow to be an crucial to the railway on war-footing.
As per a conservative determine, the railway is working to exchange greater than 50000 standard coaches by 2025-30 with LHB coaches.
The LHB coaches are manufactured on the Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory moreover two different locations for the nationwide transporters for specific trains which run greater than 100kmph on many routes connecting the nationwide capital to different metro cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and others.
Speaking completely to TNIE, a senior railway official of ministry stated: “ To begin with, the Indian Railway(IR) had imported a fleet of 24 air-conditioned LHB coaches from Germany for using them in rake of the New Delhi-Lucknow Shatabadi express, after the successful run of this first fleet of LHB coaches, manufacturing started in India”.
At current nearly all premier and long-distance specific and mail trains, together with Tejas Rajdhani, are being operated with the rakes of LHB coaches for the protection of passengers.
The railways is spending Rs 2 crore on the manufacturing of every LHB coach. According to official information, 1,719 passenger trains are working with the rakes of LHB coaches within the nation as of date.
“Till July 31 this year since 2001-2, around 30,772 LHB coaches have been manufactured from ICF and other two manufacturing units for replacing the conventional coaches”, official knowledgeable TNIE.
The railway has come a great distance in manufacturing this from 2001-02 with 27 LHB coaches manufactured to 1,482 LHB coaches manufactured in 2022-23. “The manufacturing of LHB coaches ramped up from 2009-10 when the railway manufactured 169LHB coaches. And it continued increasing from 169 in 2009-10 to 316 in 2010-11”, stated railway official. The railway is working to run all of the fleet of 400
Vande Bharat specific trains with the rakes of LHB coaches in subsequent 4 to 5 years.
NEW DELHI: To guarantee zero casualties in case of derailment or head-on collisions between two trains on similar tracks, the railway has began engaged on a mission mode to exchange all the prevailing rakes of standard outdated coaches from the passenger trains with LHB (Link Hofmann Busch) coaches. The LHB coaches at the moment are being manufactured with German expertise and design to safe most security and luxury to the passengers.
The standard coaches within the passenger trains in Indian Railway had been used greater than 40 years in the past to satisfy the protection requirements when the trains had a most working velocity of 60 to 80 kmph. But now with a rise in velocity as much as 180kmph, the outdated standard coaches will not be secure and appropriate.
Speaking to this newspaper, a senior railway official stated that at a time when the railway has elevated the velocity of trains after strengthening tracks and progressively making infrastructure developments, the alternative of outdated standard coaches has grow to be an crucial to the railway on war-footing.
As per a conservative determine, the railway is working to exchange greater than 50000 standard coaches by 2025-30 with LHB coaches.
The LHB coaches are manufactured on the Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory moreover two different locations for the nationwide transporters for specific trains which run greater than 100kmph on many routes connecting the nationwide capital to different metro cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and others.
Speaking completely to TNIE, a senior railway official of ministry stated: “ To begin with, the Indian Railway(IR) had imported a fleet of 24 air-conditioned LHB coaches from Germany for using them in rake of the New Delhi-Lucknow Shatabadi express, after the successful run of this first fleet of LHB coaches, manufacturing started in India”.
At current nearly all premier and long-distance specific and mail trains, together with Tejas Rajdhani, are being operated with the rakes of LHB coaches for the protection of passengers.
The railways is spending Rs 2 crore on the manufacturing of every LHB coach. According to official information, 1,719 passenger trains are working with the rakes of LHB coaches within the nation as of date.
“Till July 31 this year since 2001-2, around 30,772 LHB coaches have been manufactured from ICF and other two manufacturing units for replacing the conventional coaches”, official knowledgeable TNIE.
The railway has come a great distance in manufacturing this from 2001-02 with 27 LHB coaches manufactured to 1,482 LHB coaches manufactured in 2022-23. “The manufacturing of LHB coaches ramped up from 2009-10 when the railway manufactured 169LHB coaches. And it continued increasing from 169 in 2009-10 to 316 in 2010-11”, stated railway official. The railway is working to run all of the fleet of 400
Vande Bharat specific trains with the rakes of LHB coaches in subsequent 4 to 5 years.
