Recently, on 2 july, Indian Railways has created record starting the train “sheshnaag” in south east central zone of railways.
the train is 2.8 km long, longest ever in India. It consist of 251 wagons which are pulled by four electric locomotives, fitted in between.
This is a freight train. Indian Railways trying to move multiple freight rakes together as it helps in saving the transportation time and also help in the decongestion of the rail route.
Earlier, on 30 june the South East Central Railway zone operated ‘Super Anaconda’when it attached three rakes of freight train together.
Importantly, the Indian Railways reached this feat on a day when it achieved 100 percent punctuality for the first time ever.
The Indian Railways said in a release that on Thursday (July 2, 2020), it achieved 100 percent punctuality of trains for the first time in history as 201 trains that that run on this day reached the destination on time.
Prior to this India Railways has achieved 99.54 percent punctuality of trains on June 23 with the delay of only one train making it the second-best rate after today.
The Indian Railway Ministry said, ”First time ever in the history of Indian Railways, 100% punctuality of trains achieved with all trains on time. Previous best was 99.54% on 23.06.2020 with one train getting delayed.”
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