South Central Railway (SCR) will almost definitely have the second Vande Bharat practice between Secunderabad and Tirupati inside the subsequent couple of months with the Secunderabad station notified as the primary coach upkeep depot for the practice.
The main teaching depot will probably be present process a serious infrastructure overhaul for an entire examine of the practice from overhead electrical line to the undercarriage together with a pit line for a radical inspection of the 20-24-coach-length practice within the course of.
The engineering employees to service the indigenously constructed semi-high pace practice will probably be taken to Chennai or New Delhi for coaching as has been sounded by the Railway Board. Two different teaching depots – in Kacheguda railway station and Tirupati railway station are additionally within the line for upgradation to deal with these trains.
But, senior officers usually are not so certain if two extra Vande Bharat practice units for the proposed Kacheguda-Bengaluru and Secunderabad-Pune routes will probably be allotted to the area at one go. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the course of the launch of the eighth Vande Bharat between Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam earlier this month identified that two new practice units had been being launched every month. Hence, it’s extra probably the following practice set or the ninth Vande Bharath could also be allotted to East Coast Railway headquartered in Bhubaneshwar.
Secunderabad-Tirupati may very well be the following one in line contemplating the particular focus of the railways in creating the station and the model new specific may very well be one other various technique of transport, albeit at a better fare, for scores of pilgrims thronging the hill city, observe senior officers.
With the Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat being serviced in Visakhapatnam, the Tirupati practice, when launched will probably be serviced at Secunderabad coach depot. Same goes with coach upkeep amenities at Kacheguda although it’s not recognized if the Bengaluru-bound proposed Vande Bharat will probably be ‘inter-city, day-time and all-seater express’ like all different such trains operating throughout the nation or an exception will probably be made to run it in the course of the evening.
Or, might or not it’s that the upcoming new Vande Bharat sleeper coach practice will probably be launched on this route? Senior officers additionally surprise if the present day-time inter-city of Shatabdi Express operating between Pune and Secunderabad, will probably be changed with a Vande Bharat specific or will an alternate route of Secunderabad-Nagpur route be thought-about?
Source: www.thehindu.com