Guwahati, January 28 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) today said that various steps were taken in recent times to improve the punctuality performance of train running as well as betterment of passenger amenities and facilities.
Listing out the steps, a press release from NFR Chief Public Relations Officer, Subhanan Chanda informed that nearly 1000 LHB coaches have been put in operation in recent times and the entire coaching depot and workshops under NFR have been upgraded to deal with their maintenance.
For the first time in Indian Railways, a load box testing facility of power car of LHB coaches have been set up in New Bongaigaon workshop of NFR, it said, resulting in better performance of power cars attached with LHB rakes by minimising failure and ensuring safety during train running.
New DEMU services have been started in Dharmanagar - Agartala – Sabroom section of Tripura to provide better and speedier service to short distance passenger and 5 LHB rakes of Tinsukia division and 2 LHB rakes of Katihar Division have been converted into HOG compliant rakes, it added.
Meanwhile, for passenger amenities and facilities, the release maintained that quick watering system, ensuring watering of a complete train within a minimum stoppage time of 10 minutes, has already been commissioned at Guwahati and Lumding station.
The system is expected to be commissioned in 8 more stations by June 2020 and this would help eliminate the problem of passenger complaints arising out of non-availability of water in coaches, it said.
In addition, 840 sleeper class coaches have been provided with 36 Mobile charging points from existing 18 for improved passenger amenity, it said.
“Project Swarn” has been started to upgrade the condition of Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains and this initiative has resulted in giving improved interiors in the coaches due to upgraded coach interior, toilet and on board services, the release added.
