FAST TRACKING VANDE BHARAT
- February 5, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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FAST TRACKING VANDE BHARAT
TOPIC: Economy
Context- The Budget has announced 400 more of these semi-high-speed trains in the next 3 years.
Concept-
What’s Vande Bharat
- The Train18, later named Vande Bharat is a semi-high speed trainset, each of 16 coaches, and self-propelled — they do not require an engine.
- This is called a distributed traction power system, which is increasingly becoming the norm the world over for passenger operations.
- Distributed power gives the train higher acceleration and deceleration compared to loco-hauled trains, which take a much longer time to reach top speed or to gradually come to a halt.
- The current Vande Bharat trains have seating only in two classes — chair car and executive chair car. Railways is already in the process of making 102 new VandeBharats, which will be an upgrade from the current two Vande Bharat train sets.
- Railways is looking at making several of these trainsets with aluminium instead of steel. An aluminium body will make each train set around 40-80 tonnes lighter than a current Vande Bharat.