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Chennai: Union Minister of Railways visits Chennai for inspection of newly built Vande Bharat train

In order to perform an inspection of the Vande Bharat train, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, went to the Integral Coach facility in Chennai on Friday.

TN City Desk

Updated Aug 13, 2022, 11:40 IST

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Chennai: In order to perform an inspection of the Vande Bharat train, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, went to the Integral Coach facility in Chennai on Friday.

The freshly launched Vande Bharat rake by ICF, Chennai, was inspected by Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, according to a tweet from Southern Railway.

On February 15, 2019, the inaugural Vande Bharat Express train on the New Delhi to Kanpur to Allahabad to Varanasi route was flagged off. In under 18 months, the totally in-house design and manufacture, computer modelling, and system integration have all been accomplished by Integral Coach Factory (ICF), a Railways Production unit in Chennai.

There are two Vande Bharat trains travelling between Delhi and Katra and Delhi and Varanasi at the moment. The ICF can produce six to seven Vande Bharat rakes (trains) per month, and efforts are being made to increase this number to ten.

Additionally, Vande Bharat trains would be built at the Modern Coach Factory in Rae Bareli and the Rail Coach Factory in Kapurthala.

In order to develop a transportation system that runs faster than bullet trains and has significantly lower operational costs, Indian Railways has partnered with IIT Madras. IIT Madras will receive financial support from Indian Railways for this project in the amount of Rs. 8.34 crore.

The passenger convenience and safety elements on the new Vande Bharat train have been enhanced. The support of the Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) or Kavach to prevent signal passing at danger (SPAD) incidents and risky scenarios deriving from overspeeding and train crashes in station areas will be the biggest safety improvement in the upgraded Vande Bharat trains.

Along with them, coaches have fire detection alarms and restrooms and changing rooms have fire detection suppression systems.

Additionally, there will be more emergency push buttons and emergency talk-back devices available for passengers to use so they may communicate with the loco pilot.

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