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Officials said that the full-scale accumulation of the 24-car Vande Bharat Sleeper bid whitethorn commence successful 2026-27.
After the completion of the agelong region proceedings of the archetypal Vande Bharat Sleeper train, the Ministry of Railways has fixed an bid to manufacture 9 much sleeper versions of Vande Bharat Express trains by the extremity of December 2025. Officials said that these 16-car trains volition beryllium produced by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), the Indian Railways’ manufacturing portion successful Chennai.
Apart from this, the Indian Railways is besides eyeing the accumulation of 24-car Vande Bharat Sleeper trains. It has placed an bid for propulsion electrics, the strategy wherever a bid is powered by electricity, for 50 rakes of 24-car Vande Bharat Sleeper bid sets connected December 17, 2024. The bid has been awarded to 2 companies — Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd (MSDPL) and French shaper Alstom — who volition proviso propulsion systems for 33 rakes and 17 rakes, respectively implicit 2 years.
Officials said that the full-scale accumulation of the 24-car Vande Bharat Sleeper bid whitethorn commence successful 2026-27.
Trials completed
The Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO) successfully completed trials of the archetypal 16-car Vande Bharat Sleeper bid acceptable connected January 15, 2025 for a 540 km region connected the Mumbai- Ahmedabad section. The manufacturing of the bid was completed by the ICF connected December 17 past twelvemonth and it was besides brought to the Kota Division to trial it for the short-distance runs of 30-40 km astatine a precocious velocity of 180 km per hour.
Officials said that earlier the operationalisation of India’s archetypal Vande Bharat Sleeper train, RDSO, the probe helping of Indian Railways, volition contented a last certificate aft analysing the proceedings runs. The railway information commissioner volition measure the bid astatine its maximum speed. The 16-coach bid is divided into 3 classes — AC 1st Class, AC 2-Tier, and AC 3-Tier. It has a full capableness of 1,128 passengers and is equipped with clang buffers, deformation tubes, and a fire-barrier wall.
Apart from this, the Indian Railways has already signed 2 large contracts with nationalist and planetary backstage players for the proviso of Vande Bharat Sleeper trains. In June 2023, a consortium of Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd (TRSL) and state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) won the declaration for manufacturing 80 Vande Bharat sleeper trains astatine a outgo of Rs 24,000 crore.
Similarly, connected September 27, 2023, the Indian Railways signed a declaration with the Indo-Russia associated task Kinet Railway Solutions Ltd for the accumulation of Vande Bharat Sleeper trains. The Indo-Russian peculiar intent conveyance (SPV) formed by the consortium of Russia’s largest rolling banal shaper Transmashholding’s units (TMH), Locomotive Electronic Systems (LES) and Metrowagonmash with Indian state-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL).
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As per the contract, Kinet volition proviso a full of 1,920 Vande Bharat Sleeper coaches to the Indian Railways and volition connection attraction services for 35 years. The manufacturing of these trains volition beryllium done astatine Marathwada Rail Coach Factory (MRCF) successful Latur, Maharashtra.
Dheeraj Mishra is simply a Principal analogous with The Indian Express, Business Bureau. He covers India’s 2 cardinal ministries- Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. He often uses the Right to Information (RTI) Act for his stories, which person resulted successful galore impactful reports. ... Read More
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