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Integral Coach Factory on Friday rolled out modern coaches for Tejas Express to make train travel more comfortable. This comes within a month of its rolling out India’s first semi-high speed train set Train 18.
AV displays
ICF plans to manufacture 23 Tejas coaches of which 18 are air-conditioned chair-cars; two are air-conditioned executive chair-cars and three power cars.
These coaches have been allotted by the Railway Board for the Northern Railway, says an ICF release.
Unlike the earlier Tejas coaches, where seats were large to accommodate the audio-visual display units, the new version will have normal seats with AV display units fitted at the back of every seat.
Swanky units
Like the Shatabdi coaches, Tejas bogies also have a seating capacity of 78 passengers in each of the normal air-conditioned chair-cars (in 3+2 seating arrangement) and 56 passengers in the executive class air-conditioned chair cars (in 2+2 seating arrangement), the release said.
Interacting with newspersons after the flag off, S Mani, General Manager, ICF, said the Tejas upgraded version is being rolled out today for the Southern Railway and will be operated from Chennai Egmore to Madurai like the Shatabdi.
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