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     Andhravodu Kurra Bewarse Username: Andhravodu Post Number: 4031 Registered: 04-2017 Rating: N/A |
The Vande Bharat Express, also known as Train 18,[1] is a semi-high-speed, electric multiple-unit train operated by Indian Railways. It was designed and manufactured by the government-owned Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai. On 27 January 2019, the train service was renamed the Vande Bharat Express to honour the fact that the train was manufactured entirely in India.[2] It was designed with the vision of low-cost maintenance and cost optimization in mind. It began operations on February 15, 2019 Background The Vande Bharat Express is built on MEMU local train-based EMU technology that was developed in the mid-1950s. MEMU has been manufactured by Integrated Coach Factory for the last 25 years.[4] Indian Railways was planning to launch new type of MEMU trains which are Train-18 like for inter-city travel In June 2015, when the Indian Railways put out a request for bids, none of them was good enough, so they decided to go ahead and build it all in India. Ee train is all Indian made and developed from 2015. All BJP/Modi effort anduke full blood edutunnadu publicity ki :-) |