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Tiruchi, April 9 The Golden Rock Railway Workshop here will soon embark on the task of manufacturing stainless steel wagons which will have a higher carrying capacity than the conventional wagons.

The workshop has developed a prototype of a stainless steel wagon as per the designs provided by the Lucknow-based Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDS0), which comes under the Ministry of Railways. Once certified by the RDSO, the workshop has planned to go in for production of stainless steel wagons in a couple of months. In the current financial year the workshop is contemplating to manufacture around 150 stainless steel wagons.

While the carrying capacity of a conventional wagon is 68 tonnes, the capacity of a stainless wagon will be 71 tonnes. Further, stainless steel wagons will be non-corrosive, sturdier and stronger than the conventional wagons, workshop authorities here told Business Line here. The stainless wagons would be slightly longer in length, width and height than the conventional one. These wagons, with polyurethane painting, would be supplied entirely for the railway requirements, say the workshop authorities.

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