MILLENNIUM RAIL COACHES TO BE INTRODUCED IN NEW DELHI-MUMBAI RAJDHANI EXPRESS

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Coaches of the Millennium, precisely known as the state-of-the art most luxurious coaches built indigenously at Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala under technology transfer agreement with ALSTOM-LHB of Germany were stationed at Safdarjung station for a preview by Media today. These coaches comprising AC first, AC second, AC three-tier were shown to the Media.

The salient features of the super luxury coaches were explained by two Additional Members of the Railway Board, Shri M.Z. Ansari and Shri V.K. Bhargav. They said that these coaches were safe, fire retardant, spacious and light weight with high speed.

These coaches forming a rake will be first introduced in Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express in August 2003. The second such rake in the Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala is expected to be ready by this month. It is in the final stage of manufacturing.

The existing rakes of all Rajdhani Express trains will be replaced by coaches of the millennium and later all trains would have these coaches.