Vande Bharat sleeper: How RVNL & Russia’s TMH will make train sets better than Rajdhani Express – watch video – Times of India
A consortium of Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and Russia’s TMH emerged the lowest bidder for making 120 Vande Bharat sleeper trains railways’ coach factory in Latur. The remaining 80 train sets will be manufactured by the second lowest bidder – a consortium of Titagarh Wagons and BHEL.
Vande Bharat Sleeper: RVNL & Russia’s TMH to make new Indian Railways’ trains better than Rajdhani
In this week’s episode of TOI Business Bytes, Alok Kumar Misra the Director of Kinet SPV and GM (Mechanical) at RVNL talks in detail about the Vande Bharat sleeper train project. Kinet SPV is a Special Purpose Vehicle formed between RVNL and TMH for the execution of this project.
Watch the video above to know how the Vande Bharat sleeper trains will be superior to Rajdhani Express trains in terms of features, average speed and maintenance. The Rs 35,000 crore project entails manufacturing of 120 Vande Bharat sleeper variant train sets and their maintenance over a period of 35 years. The RVNL-TMH consortium quoted a price of Rs 120 crore per train set.
In the video above, Misra also talks about when the first prototype of the Vande Bharat sleeper train is expected to be ready, why RVNL has chosen to enter into the coach manufacturing space and the expertise that Russia’s TMH and RVNL will bring to the table.
Indian Railways hopes to introduce sleeper Vande Bharat trains for faster and more comfortable overnight travel – a move that could possibly replace Rajdhani Express trains over the long-term on the railway network. Apart from the 200 sleeper Vande Bharat trains, railways is also in the process of finalising a project for making 100 aluminium Vande Bharat train sets, a first for railways.
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