Railways operationalises its most powerful 12,000 HP made in India locomotive
- The first 12,000 HP made in India locomotive, manufactured by Madhepura Electric Loco Factory in Bihar, has been put into operation by Indian Railways from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.
- The loco is named WAG12 with Number 60027.
- The train departed from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Station at 2:08 pm on Tuesday in long haul formation for Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway and consisting of 118 wagons, which travelled from Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Station to Barwadih via Dehri-on-Sone, Garhwa Road, read an official statement.
- India has become the sixth country in the world to join the elite club of producing high horsepower locomotive indigenously.
- It is the first time that high horsepower locomotive has been operationalised on broad gauge track in the world.
- The locomotive has been produced under Make in India programme.
- The Madhepura factory is the largest integrated greenfield facility built to the highest standards of quality and safety with production capacity of 120 locomotives and spread across a massive 250 acres, said the statement.
- These locomotives are state-of-the-art IGBT based, three-phase drive, 9000 KW (12,000 horse-power) electric locomotive.
- The locomotive is capable of maximum tractive effort of 706 kN, which is capable of starting and running a 6000 T train in the gradient of 1 in 150.
- “The locomotive with twin Bo-Bo design having 22.5 T (tonnes) axle load is upgradable to 25 tonnes with design speed of 120 kmph.
- This locomotive will be a game-changer for further movement of coal trains for Dedicated Freight Corridor.
- The locomotives can be tracked through GPS for its strategic use through embedded software and Antennae being lifted through the servers on ground through a microwave link,” the statement said.
- The locomotive is capable of working on railway tracks with conventional OHE lines as well as on Dedicated Freight Corridors with high rise OHE lines.
- It has air-conditioned driver cabs on either side, and is equipped with regenerative braking system which provides substantial energy savings during operations.
- These high horsepower locomotives will help to decongest the saturated tracks by improving the average speed of freight trains.
- The Madhepura Electric Locomotive Pvt. Ltd. (MELPL) will manufacture 800 state-of the-art 12,000 HP electric freight locomotives in 11 years.
About Indian Railway-
- Indian Railways (IR) is India’s national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways.
- It is one of the public facilities given by the government and manages the fourth largest railway network in the world by size, with a route length of 95,981-kilometre (59,640 mi) as of March 2019. About 61.62% of the routes are electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz AC electric traction while 33% of them are double or multi-tracked.
- Formation- 8 May 1845
- Headquarters – New Delhi
- Minister – Piyush Goyal
- Chairman – Vinod Kumar Yadav
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