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Posted: Jun 09 2017 (13:19)
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Jun 09 2017 (12:47) Railways to replace all general class passenger trains with self-propelled carriages to raise speed
Jayashree^ 51408 news posts
The Indian Railways is all set to replace all only-general-class passenger trains with MEMU or DEMU rakes to increase traffic speed.
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This type of train also cost effective. because of less powered hauled machanism. DMU can be of 1600 hp.
---DYNAMICS OF A PASSENGER TRAIN (PT)---
* (PT) with conventional loco & coach rake have slow acceleration and take a long time to gain speed.
* Similarly it has slow deceleration and take long time to halt and brake has to be applied much before the arrival of station.
* With normal inter station stop of 3-8 kms, the brake has to...
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* (PT) with conventional loco & coach rake have slow acceleration and take a long time to gain speed.
* Similarly it has slow deceleration and take long time to halt and brake has to be applied much before the arrival of station.
* With normal inter station stop of 3-8 kms, the brake has to...
more...
Yes the Power Output and Tractive effort is very less due to light coaches and Motor coaches use very less TE to run the train as they combine the effort, from all ends and middle of the train. They should have done this long back, this technology is popularly being used in high speed trainsets such as bullet train where Motor Coach=Power car.
They should do this with Intercity expresses having short rake.
They should do this with Intercity expresses having short rake.
At present all demu and memu trains im Hyderabad have toilets.but long distance memu trains are not having toilets
All passenger trains and some ice should be replaced by memu or demu trains with some modifications like toilets replacing reserved coaches with first class