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Business News/ News / India/  Indian Railways completes electrification of track upto Guwahati in north-east India
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Indian Railways completes electrification of track upto Guwahati in north-east India

Indian Railways said that additional Rajdhani express trains can now be introduced for North-East states like Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim

Guwahati, the biggest city of Northeast is now literally connected with all metros with electric tractionPremium
Guwahati, the biggest city of Northeast is now literally connected with all metros with electric traction

Indian Railways'Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)zone  has successfully completed the electrification work of a total of 649 Route Kilometer (RKM)/ 1294 Tonne Kilometer (TKM) of High-Density Network (HDN) from Katihar to Guwahati, the Ministry of Railways said.

According to an official release, the electrification work will now connect all major cities of the country with Guwahati on seamless electric traction. This is yet another effort by NFR for capital connectivity by green transportation, the release said.

With the electrification of railway network till Guwahati, Indian Railways has said that it will benefit the common people and overall economy in the following ways:

-Additional Rajdhani express trains can now be introduced for North-East states like Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Sikkim.

-15 pairs of existing trains originating/terminating at Kamakhya/Guwahati can run with an additional passenger coach by eliminating one power car, thus improving passenger throughput.

-NF railway have difficult terrain with a large number of graded sections, curves, bridges. Electric traction shall eliminate need for multi diesel locos as higher HP electric engines can maintain higher speed in gradient section.

-Running time between Guwahati to Katihar / Malda Town is likely to reduce by up to 2 hours as trains can now move at higher speed due to better acceleration / deceleration.

-Line capacity enhancement of up to 10-15% shall lead to reducing level of saturation on many of the sections on the NF Railway allowing more coaching trains to run.

-Likely saving of foreign exchange spent on high Speed Diesel oil Oil of about 300 crore per annum.

-High Speed Diesel oil consumption will reduce by about 3400 KL per month.

-Electrification will lead to better maintenance as faster trains shall lead to more time for maintenance blocks.

-By shifting engine changing point to the terminating point, midway changing of crew due to traction change can now be avoided, saving time and manpower.

-Improved operational efficiency due to reduced Light engine movement of locos for fuelling purpose.

-With Electrification heavier goods trains can be run at higher speed.

-Due to seamless train operation, traction change at New Jalpaiguri, New Coochbehar will now be done away with, enhancing mobility of the trains.

-Electric locos shall enable replacing presently existing power cars on all Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coach fitted trains with HOG compliant locos. This shall lead to large saving on fuel for power cars (About 10 Cr on the electrified route itself!!!!)

 

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Published: 12 Oct 2021, 06:42 AM IST
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