Vista dome Coach
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Vista dome Coach
Subject: Tourism and art and culture
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off eight trains from different parts of the country to Kevadia in Narmada district, where the Statue of Unity is located.
Concept:
- It is a state-of-the-art coach made by Indian Railways, designed to provide passengers with travel comfort as well as an enhanced viewing experience of their surroundings.
- It has been manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- It is for the first time that the Vistadome coach has been made on the Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) platform, made for passenger coaches for trains in India.
- The coach with large window for scenic experience also has CCTV surveillance, fire alarm system and an LED destination board, GPS-based public-address-cum passenger information system etc.