{"id":645573,"date":"2025-09-10T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645573"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:22:01","slug":"chennai-tirupati-sapthagiri-express-to-get-modern-lhb-coaches-replacing-icf-rake-after-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-tirupati-sapthagiri-express-to-get-modern-lhb-coaches-replacing-icf-rake-after-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai\u2013Tirupati Sapthagiri Express to get modern LHB coaches, replacing ICF rake after a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Nearly a decade after the unique push-pull rake \u2014 featuring an engine at the rear and a driving cabin at the front \u2014 was replaced by a conventional ICF rake, Southern Railway has announced that the Chennai-Tirupati Sapthagiri Express will soon be upgraded with modern LHB coaches equipped with enhanced safety features. <\/p>\n<p>The new LHB rake will include 10 second-class chair cars, one AC coach, four general coaches and one disabled-friendly luggage van. The revised composition will take effect from September 20, according to an official notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Nearly a decade after the unique push-pull rake \u2014 featuring an engine at the rear and a driving cabin at the front \u2014 was replaced by a conventional ICF rake, Southern Railway has announced that the Chennai-Tirupati Sapthagiri Express will soon be upgraded with modern LHB coaches equipped with enhanced safety features. The new LHB rake will include 10 second-class chair cars, one AC coach, four general coaches and one disabled-friendly luggage van. The revised composition will take effect from September 20, according to an official notification.<\/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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645573","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=645573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}