Best printers for Home

Best Mixer Grinder

Best wired Earphones

Best 43 Inch TV in India

Best Wi Fi Routers

Best Home Theatre in India

Smart Watch under 5000

Best Laptops for Education

Best Laptop for Students

(Photo Source: IANS) <ul><li>India is expected to soon roll out its fastest train which on Sunday had a successful test run reaching a speed of over 180 kilometres. </li><li>Once operational, ‘Train 18’ will replace <keyword id="6357235" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="shatabdi-express">Shatabdi Express</keyword> to become India’s fastest premium train. </li><li>The train boasts of touch-free bio vacuum toilets, onboard wifi, GPS based information system, and climate control system features, among others.</li></ul>India is about to roll out its fastest train that boasts many firsts. The engineless locomotive, Train 18, had a test run on Sunday, reaching more than 180 kilometres per hour during the trial run between Kota Junction in <keyword id="6355588" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="rajasthan">Rajasthan</keyword> and Kurlasi station in <keyword id="6355554" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Madhya-Pradesh">Madhya Pradesh</keyword>. It is expected to have its maiden journey from New Delhi to Varanasi on 25 December. Here are 10 facts about Train18:

From ‘touch-free toilet set-up’ to ‘climate control’: Here are 10 facts about India’s ‘Train 18,’ the country’s first engineless train

As of now, the least time in which you can cover the distance from Mumbai to Delhi via train is nearly 16 hours, taken by the <keyword id="6386498" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajdhani-Express">Rajdhani Express</keyword>. However, thanks to the introduction of the Spanish-manufactured high speed train Talgo, the journey could be completed within 13 hours, in the first week of August. 
 
During the final phase of trials, the nine-coach train will undertake three trips between Mumbai and Delhi between August 1 and 5, departing from New Delhi at 7.55 pm on August 1, maintaining a speed of 130 kmph during the entire journey. 
 
"The Talgo officials have said that at this speed, the distance of 1,384 kms will be covered in 14 hours and 5 minutes. Currently, the Rajdhani Express touches 130 kmph and takes nearly 16 hours to cover the same distance," a WR source told <a href="http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Mumbai-to-Delhi-in-less-than-13-hrs-on-Talgo-trains/articleshow/53409254.cms">Mumbai Mirror</a>. 
 
While returning to Delhi on August 3, the test drive only gets better. "The train will depart Mumbai at 3 am, and the goal is to reach Delhi by evening. During the last run, on August 5, the train will throughout the journey, which is likely to be completed in 12 hours and 55 minutes," said the WR source. 
 
Talgo has nine coaches, including two executive class compartments, four chair cars, a cafeteria, a power car, and a tail-end coach for equipment. The train did a successful test trial a few days ago on the Mathura-Palwal route, at 180 kmph, covering a distance of 84 km in 38 minutes. 
 
Talgo stands for Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol, meaning light articulated train in Spanish, with Alejandro Goicoechea and Jose Luis Oriol being the company's owners. 
 
<a href="http://e-spaces.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Talgo-train-India.jpg">Image source</a>

Spain-manufactured Talgo trains would take you from Mumbai to Delhi in less than 13 hours

The <keyword id="76223" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Railways">Ministry of Railways</keyword> is all set to undertake its first trial of a semi-high-speed train on the Delhi-Agra route on Thursday (July 3). The trial run on the popular route will take place just five days before the Rail Budget is to be announced. The Railways plans to commercially launch the service in October-November. 
 The idea behind the project is to show that <keyword id="6355455" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Railways">Indian Railways</keyword> can run semi-high-speed trains within the existing infrastructure with some alterations and minimum cost. 
 The commissioner of railway safety (CRS) will be present for the trial or the ‘confirmatory run’ along with the divisional railway managers of <keyword id="6356295" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Agra">Agra</keyword> and Delhi. 
 
“Arrangements have been made to achieve the top speed of 160 kmph. Now with this run, we need to see the behaviour of the rake in that speed. It is a mandatory process,” Anurah Sachan, divisional railway manager (Delhi), said. 
 The test train is expected to reduce travel time between Delhi and Agra from 126 minutes (presently by <keyword id="6355556" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="bhopal">Bhopal</keyword> Shatabdi) to 90 minutes. It is made up of coaches used in the <keyword id="1866489" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bhopal-Shatabdi-Express">Bhopal Shatabdi Express</keyword>. The train will be pulled by an electric locomotive which can go up to 200 kmph. Parts of the track will be fenced in about three months. 
 To reach the high speeds, the train will have to be smaller, with 10 passenger coaches instead of 14. This raised concerns that since it will carry fewer passengers, the Railways may have to charge more, but the <keyword id="51689" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Railway-Board">Railway Board</keyword> has not finalised anything. According to reports, talks have been held on pricing and the service could charge premium rates eventually. 
(Image: The Economic Times)

Indian Railways To Test Semi-high-speed Delhi-Agra Train on July 3

Facing a decline in its earnings, the <keyword id="6360676" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Railways">Railways</keyword> is likely to introduce the dynamic fare system in <keyword id="3260042" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Humsafar-Express">Humsafar Express</keyword> trains, a special class service comprising only AC-3 coaches with many added facilities, to perk up revenue, according to a news agency report. 
 Equipped with coffee/tea/soup vending machine, hot and refrigerated pantry and other facilities in each cabin, the first <keyword id="6399786" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Humsafar">Humsafar</keyword> <keyword id="6413405" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="express">Express</keyword> is slated to be launched between New Delhi and <keyword id="43253" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gorakhpur">Gorakhpur</keyword> early next month. 
 
The train was scheduled to be flagged off this month, but it was delayed owing to various reasons, including the recent train accident in Kanpur. 
 "Manufacturing cost of these coaches with modern facilities is high...so there has to be special fares for these services which will be higher than that of regular trains," a senior <keyword id="54441" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Railway-ministry">Railway Ministry</keyword> official said. 
 Railway Minister <keyword id="6356597" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Suresh-Prabhu">Suresh Prabhu</keyword> had announced during the presentation of <keyword id="4183143" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rail-Budget">Rail Budget</keyword> 2016-17 that there will be seven Humsafar Express trains for inter-city overnight journey, with many additional facilities which are otherwise not available in normal AC-3 coaches. 
 
"The modalities of fare structure are being finalised. We examined several options to fix the fare considering the high expenditure incurred on it. One option was to fix the fare at 20 to 30 per cent higher than the regular AC-3 fares. The other was dynamic pricing," he said. 
 
"For Humsafar, the pricing will be dynamic as there will be provision for lower fare in case of vacant berths at the time of preparation of reservation chart," he said. 
 
In dynamic pricing, the fare goes up with demand and comes down if there is lack of demand. 
 
"We are working out details to have a cap on maximum fare and also for a minimum base fare," he added. 
 
CCTV, GPS-based passenger information system, fire and smoke detection and suppression system, mobile and laptop charging points with every berth are some of the features on Humsafar trains. 
 Besides, Humsafar will have improved aesthetics with new interior and exterior colour scheme presenting a futuristic look with the use of vinyl sheets similar to <keyword id="55491" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Maharaja-Express">Maharaja Express</keyword> coaches. It will also have integrated braille displays. 
 
Indian Railways has introduced dynamic surge fares on Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains from September 9 which has resulted in additional earnings of more than Rs 50 crore till October this year. 
 
The Railways' earnings by the end of September have declined by Rs 3,208.51 crore as compared to September last year. The Railways earned Rs 79,475.42 crore up to September 2016 as against Rs 76,268.91 crore for the corresponding period last year, a decline of 4.04 per cent.

Delhi-Gorakhpur Humsafar
Express to have dynamic pricing to boost revenue of the railways

<div type="image" title="train" msid="58193170" hostid="261"></div> After successful launch of 160 km per hour train service on <keyword id="368065" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Agra">Delhi-Agra</keyword> corridor, railways is aiming at scaling the speed up to 200 kmph on <keyword id="2401421" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Chandigarh">Delhi-Chandigarh</keyword> route with the French help to reduce the travel time, according to news report by <keyword id="6367495" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="PTI">PTI</keyword>. The 245 km long Delhi-Chandigarh corridor, one of the busiest routes in northern India, is slated to be first semi- high speed project being taken up by railways to run train at maximum speed of 200 kmph. Railways has identified nine high priority passenger corridors of total 6,400 km including Delhi-Agra, Delhi- Chandigarh to be upgraded to run semi-high speed train service. Delhi-Kanpur, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Mysore-Bengaluru-Chennai, Mumbai-Goa, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Hyderabad and Nagpur- Secunderabad routes have also been identified for raising the speeds of passenger trains to 160/200 kmph. SNCF, the French railways, will submit the execution strategy and implementation model with detailed cost of the semi-high speed project involving upgradation of the 245 km Chandigarh route. The French team is expected to submit the final report with details of cost analysis by October, said a senior <keyword id="54441" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Railway-ministry">Railway Ministry</keyword> official associated with the project. The aim is to reduce the travelling time considerably so it has been decided to upgrade the existing track for running trains at 200 kmph speed and French railways has been asked to prepare the draft document for it, he said. According to a rough estimate, it is likely to cost over Rs 10,000 crore with about Rs 46 cr per kilometre for running trains at 200 kmph, which includes rolling stock, and signal and track upgradation on the Chandigarh corridor. Currently, Shatabdi <keyword id="6413405" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="express">Express</keyword> covers the 245 km distance in about three hours 30 minutes travelling at a maximum speed of 110 kmph. The 200 kmph speed will reduce the journey time to one hour 50 minutes with one stop at Ambala. A high-level French delegation has recently mIndian Railways officials and discussed the possibility of running the semi-high speed trains on the Delhi-Chandigarh sector. It was agreed to explore the upgradation of the existing track to enable 200 kmph speed run, said the official.

Railways’ ambitious plan will bring down travelling time between Delhi and Chandigarh to an hour

Travelling from Delhi to Agra will gain a new speed now with the start of the <keyword id="2410284" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="semi-high-speed-train">semi-high speed train</keyword>, <keyword id="4800972" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="gatiman-express">Gatiman Express</keyword>. It will run at a maximum speed of 160 kmph and cover a 200-km distance in about 105 minutes and will be operated by Railways for a year on a pilot basis. 
 
The decision comes after the Commissioner Railway Safety (CRS) gave conditional clearance to the train. 
Based on the experience of running Gatiman Express at 160 kmph for a year, a further review shall be done at Railway Board for extension of its operations, according to a letter issued by the Railway Board to general managers of Northern Railway and North Central Railways. 
 
Conditions mentioned by CRS in the sanction letter have been examined and accordingly it was decided to run the train for a year from the date of its operation, the letter stated. 
 
Railways will decide a suitable date for flagging off the much-awaited first semi-high speed train soon. 
 
A date for launching Gatiman will be announced shortly as the mandatory CRS clearance has been obtained, a senior Railway Ministry official told PTI. 
 
Equipped with a 5,400HP electric locomotive and 12 modern coaches, the first semi-high speed train will run at a maximum speed of 160 kmph. 
 
While the travel time between Delhi and Agra in Shatabdi is 120 minutes, Gatiman Express proposes to reduce it to 105 minutes. 
 
Targeting tourists planning to visit the City of Taj, the fare for Gatiman Express will be 25 per cent more than what a Shatabdi passenger has to pay. 
 
Earlier, CRS has raised certain safety concerns over running the first semi-high speed train on the existing track. 
CRS has sought implementation of a few measures like fencing off the track at vulnerable locations and taking adequate safeguards at level crossings. 
 "CRS concerns have been addressed and railway divisions have been asked to fence off the identified vulnerable locations along the <keyword id="368065" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Delhi-Agra">Delhi-Agra</keyword> route. All level crossings on the route shall be replaced with rail over bridge and rail under bridge in a planned manner," said the official. 
 
The trials of the semi-high speed train have already been conducted twice on the 200-km-long track between the two destinations. 
 
While the tracks have been fenced off at certain places, signalling system has been upgraded along the route to be taken by the semi-high speed train. 
 
The train also comes with extra features such as emergency braking system, automatic fire alarm along with the passenger information system and sliding doors inside the coaches. 
 
Railways have chalked out nine more routes for running similar trains, including Kanpur-Delhi, Chandigarh-Delhi, Hyderabad-Chennai, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Goa-Mumbai and Nagpur-Secunderabad. 
 
(Image credits: indiatimes)

Semi-high speed train Gatiman Express to run from Delhi-Agra for a year

This could turn out to be advertiser’s and marketers’ opportunity of the century! India’s largest employer as well as one of its largest public companies, the Indian Railways, is finalising a branding policy for trains, coaches, stations and even consumables such as bedding, an initiative that's expected to raise as much as Rs 9,000 crore for the cash-strapped organisation. 
 A task force headed by <keyword id="51689" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Railway-Board">Railway Board</keyword> member (traffic) <keyword id="520005" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ajay-Shukla">Ajay Shukla</keyword> will submit a detailed report on the issue by April 30 to finalise a comprehensive commercial publicity policy and its operational framework. The task force was formed by <keyword id="18658" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Railway-Minister">railway minister</keyword> <keyword id="6356597" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Suresh-Prabhu">Suresh Prabhu</keyword> after engineering consultancy <keyword id="710433" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="RITES-Ltd">RITES Ltd</keyword> estimated earnings from the avenue at the figure above in a study. 
 
"The minister is open to the idea of auctioning names of stations and even trains to corporates," an official said, according to The Economic Times. 
 
The RITES study in consultation with the advertising industry said the railways could earn as much as Rs 780 crore a year by selling advertising space on 26 Rajdhanis 20 Shatabdis and 32 Duronto trains alone. "These trains combined offer advertisers 4 lakh captive eyeball contacts of passengers, plus 80 lakh casual eyeball contacts, in addition to premium branding rights," the report said. 
 
A similar assessment has been given for 500 other superfast mail and express trains, 2,000 passenger trains, 100 local trains and 1 lakh wagons. The earning potential of different categories of rolling stock will vary. Premium trains such as the Rajdhanis and Shatabdis will attract a certain category of advertisers said ET. 
 
These will differ in the case of ordinary, mail and freight trains. 
 
The RITES has suggested branded train schemes, branded station schemes and freight wagons sponsorship. 
 RITES conducted its study in December at the direction of the railway minister, who was looking for innovative means of generating resources said ET. The RITES <keyword id="6364480" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chairman">chairman</keyword> is part of the task force and sources in Rail Bhavan said the organisation could play the role of consultant implementing the project. 
 Gurgaon's <keyword id="578105" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Rapid-Metro">Rapid Metro</keyword> and, more recently, <keyword id="52450" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Delhi-Metro-Railway-Corporation">Delhi Metro Railway Corporation</keyword> have been generating revenue by tying up with corporates. Rapid Metro has sold naming rights for stations to companies. Delhi Metro recently awarded rights for wrapping its six-coach trains with ads.

You Searched For "Shatabdi Express" and got 7 results

From ‘touch-free toilet set-up’ to ‘climate control’: Here are 10 facts about India’s ‘Train 18,’ the country’s first engineless train

BI India Bureau

Spain-manufactured Talgo trains would take you from Mumbai to Delhi in less than 13 hours

BI India Bureau

Indian Railways To Test Semi-high-speed Delhi-Agra Train on July 3

BI India Bureau

Delhi-Gorakhpur Humsafar Express to have dynamic pricing to boost revenue of the railways

BI India Bureau

Railways’ ambitious plan will bring down travelling time between Delhi and Chandigarh to an hour

BI India Bureau

Semi-high speed train Gatiman Express to run from Delhi-Agra for a year

BI India Bureau

Now advertise on Indian trains, platforms and across stations!An advertiser's opportunity of the century!

BI India Bureau

Popular Keywords

Buying Guides