Indian Railways Unveils Indigenously Factory-Made Tejas Specific Locomotives.
Indian Railways on a weekday (October 2) flagged off the primary batch of indigenously factory-made Tejas-specific locomotives for push-pull operations. The Tejas specific locomotives were unveiled in Asansol terminus.
The engine of Tejas specific is provided with new technology and is factory-made in West Bengal's Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW). Praveen Kumar Mishra the final manager of Chittaranjan Locomotive Works flagged off the Tejas specific locomotives.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal referred to like it as a significant accomplishment below the creation in the Asian nation initiative. Taking to microblogging website Twitter he wrote,'' Yet another vital push to PM @NarendraModi ji's 'Make in India' & Aatmanirbhar India initiatives! Railways unveil the primary batch of indigenously factory-made Tejas specific locos for 'push-pull' operations. These are extremely advanced & energy-efficient locos.''
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works chief, Praveen Mishra flagged off the locos alongside senior officers and employees. The indigenously designed locos cut back air drags at higher speeds for a lot of energy potency and dynamically stable throughout high-speed operations.
This means, if these locos area unit used for Delhi-Kolkata Rajdhani specific, the journey are often reduced by a minimum of ninety minutes. The two Tejas specific Locos can add ‘Push-Pull’ mode in premium traveller trains. This area unit noise-free, pollution-free, and environmentally friendly inexperienced locomotives that area unit high on energy potency and low on maintenance.
The composite converters provided in these locos can directly provide power to the coaches and storage room cars, so eliminating the necessity for a separate diesel power generator cars. The locomotive before the train is going to be manned and pull whereas the one at the rear is going to be unmanned and performance as a push.
The driver’s table before has been ergonomically re-modified to up the manoeuvring ability of round the bend pilots. The look-out glass too has been widened for the good thing about the round the bend pilots. The two, WAP- five (35012-35013) kind electrical locomotives have a capability of 6000 H.P. every and each area unit equipped with the most recent IGBT primarily based system and might halt to sixteen coaches.