Alstom-built 12000 HP electric locomotives have been officially approved by the Ministry of Railways and RDSO to run freight trains at a maximum speed of 120 kmph. Earlier this year, Indian Railways began inducting the […]
Indian Railways has floated the revised Tender of semi high speed 44 Vande Bharat trains sets. The Tender is for -3 phase Propulsion, Control and other Equipment along with Bogies for Trains Sets. Tender has […]
The Indian Railways will revamp nearly 2,600 coaches as “smart coaches” with features such as installing a system that can control the temperature inside the coach by sensing ambient temperature and sensors that can alert […]
Line capacity on the Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat section under Mysuru division of South Western Railway (SWR) is all set to increase. The division with funds made available by the Hassan Mangalore Rail Development Corporation (HMRDC), […]
In an attempt to promote Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, local engineers of Ludhiana railway station have developed a unique kind of electric engine that runs on high voltage batteries to handle maintenance work of high […]
Indian Railways in a bid to reduce its dependency on fossil fuel has started to equip its Linke Hofmann Busch(LHB) coaches with ‘Head on Generation’ (HOG) system. Under the HOG system electricity supply to run fans, lights, […]
In yet another initiative towards pursuance of the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister of ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’, ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make In India’ and towards fulfillment of the mission of Hon’ble Minister of Railways and […]
Mumbai local stations, known to be most crowded and usually free to access, will now get Metro-style access control gates for entry and exit, starting at Mumbai CSMT. To aid this, ticket checkers from Friday […]
Indian Railways will use radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) for tracking of all wagons by 2022, it said in a release yesterday (Thursday, 23rd July 2020). “A total of 23,000 wagons have been covered under the […]
With the spread of COVID-19 continuing unabated, new technologies have been adopted in virtually all sectors to minimise risk of close human contact. However, a Railway ticket examiner has to physically examine tickets and mobile […]
