Hirakhand Express with Modern LHB coaches shall be flagged off tomorrow

Bhubaneswar: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will flag off the brand new LHB Rake of Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express tomorrow by means of video conferencing from Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.
Odisha Ministers Padmanabha Behera and Ashok Chandra Panda, MPs Aparajita Sarangi & Shri Saptagiri Sankar Ullaka, MLAs Suresh Ku Routray, Tara Prasad Bahinipati, Ananta Narayan Jena, Purna Chandra Swain, Rajendra Kumar Sahu, Susant Kumar Rout, Makaranda Muduli & Prabhu Jani will grace the event as Guests of Honours at Bhubaneswar Railway Station.
To present higher consolation and jerk free journey to the passengers, Railways have determined to run Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express with trendy Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches by changing typical coaches operating at current.
08445/08446 Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar Special Hirakhand Express w.e.f. tenth September, 2021 from Bhubaneswar & w.e.f. eleventh September, 2021 from Jagadalpur will run with LHB coaches.
Special Hirakhand Express will now run with a load mixture of 12 coaches as earlier, i.e. 01 AC 2 Tier, 02 AC-3 Tier, 04 Sleeper Class, Three Second Class Seating and 02 Guard cum Luggage & Divyangjan Coaches. Only typical coaches shall be changed by LHB coaches.
LHB coaches are anti-telescopic, which suggests they don’t flip in case of a collision, safer, lighter, extra comfy and jerk free. Replacement of ICF typical coaches section clever with LHB coaches is being carried out from security standpoint.