Indian Railways has set a rolling ball to produce 100 sets of Vande Bharat Express trains in 2024.
PM Narendra Modi has a speech of independence day announced that 75 train Vande Bharat will connect big cities on August 15, 2023.
National transportation has now issued a tender for the propulsion system And other equipment from 58 Vande Bharat Rakes, Learning Toi.
The contract for 44 Vande Bharat Rakes equipment has been given to Medha Servo earlier this year.
With this, Indian Railways aims to launch 102 Vande Bharat trains in early 2024, a source to TOI.
Vande Bharat is a luxury air-conditioned car seat service that looks similar to a high-speed train.
Designed for speeds of up to 160 kmpj, and tested at 180 KMPJ, the Vande Bharat train in the vande bharat itself “no”.
Acceleration and a slowdown that faster produces a train travel time reduced.
Some of the passenger friendly features included; European-style chairs, airplane-style personal reading lights, scattered LED lighting, GPS-based infotainment systems, bio-toilet modular, full surfing alley for dust-free environments, entrances / exits that are centrally controlled with sliding traces, kitchen mini Luggage rack, 360 degree spinning chairs in the executive class, Divyang friendly toilet and automatic sliding cottage door.
Tender, accessed by TOI, is for design, development, manufacture, supply, integration, testing and commissioning propulsion of 3 phases based on IGBT, control and other equipment from Vande Bharat Rakes.
This will be closed in October this year.
Pre-bidding conferences for this will be held in September.
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Two first Vande Bharat trains to run on the Delhi-Varanasi and Delhi-Katra route have been produced at the ICF, Chennai.
As part of the tender for 44 Garu was awarded before, Vande Bharat Rake’s first prototype would be produced at the Chennai ICF in March 2022 and widely tested by RDSO.
The Indian train hopes to start placing the new Vande Bharat train to be a service in the second half of 2022.
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reported by Toi, the new Vande Bharat train will have some repairs above two trains.
Some of them are; The back push feature for lying chairs, emergency windows for evacuation, protection for underslung equipment from floods, four instead of 2 emergency push buttons per trainer, centralized coach monitoring system, bacterial-free air conditioning system, disaster lights if lamp failure, ventilation up to 3 hours if Power failure etc.