How did railways turn around the freight train?

Over 74% of Indian Railways revenue comes from its freight operations. It is the backbone of the railways, and also supports passenger operations. So the health of the railways depends a lot on how its freight service is performing.

Report card of Railways’ freight service

And it is doing really well. In the last two years, railways freight loading has been impressive. Despite the pandemic, the freight loading in FY21 exceeded that of FY20. Indian railways ferried 1,418 million tonnes of freight in FY22, a jump of 15% over the previous fiscal’s 1,233 mt.

Railways had recorded 25 straight months of best-ever monthly freight loading till September this year.