{"id":494309,"date":"2022-05-28T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T06:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494309"},"modified":"2022-05-28T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:56:36","slug":"indias-first-semi-high-speed-freight-train-likely-to-chug-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-first-semi-high-speed-freight-train-likely-to-chug-by-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first semi-high speed freight train likely to chug by year end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first semi-high speed freight train is likely to hit the tracks by December, officials said Friday. Replicating the concept of Vande Bharat trains, the 16-coach &#8216;Gati NSE -4.68 % Shakti&#8217; train can clock 160 kmph and will be manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>In order to implement the PM Gati Shakti initiative in a focused manner, the Railways has created a separate directorate at the Railway Board with its branches at Khurda, Bilaspur, Delhi and Bengaluru divisions to expedite the ambitious scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The design work for these trains has already started. We have also given the order for material&#8230;By December this year, we will be able to manufacture two of these trains,&#8221; ICF General Manager A K Agarwal said, adding that an overall target of 25 such trains has been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first semi-high speed freight train is likely to hit the tracks by December, officials said Friday. Replicating the concept of Vande Bharat trains, the 16-coach &#8216;Gati NSE -4.68 % Shakti&#8217; train can clock 160 kmph and will be manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai. In order to implement the PM Gati Shakti initiative in a focused manner, the Railways has created a separate directorate at the Railway Board with its branches at Khurda, Bilaspur, Delhi and Bengaluru divisions to expedite the ambitious scheme. &#8220;The design work for these trains has already started. We have also given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}