VANDE BHARAT COACH MAINTENANCE DEPOT AT HOWRAH JHEEL SIDING SOLVES ANY TECHNICAL GLITCH EXPEDITIOUSLY
Kolkata, August 27, 2023
Since the inception of the Howrah – New Jalpaiguri – Howrah Vande Bharat Express has become very popular among the people of West Bengal as this train facilitates tourism in Dooars and Darjeeling Himalayan region.
Vande Bharat rakes are semi-high-speed trains conceptualized, designed and developed indigenously, Coaches are fitted with state-of-the-art safety features, world-class amenity fittings, and equipped with modern control and monitoring systems. In order to create a modern coach maintenance facility to deal with such semi-high-speed train rakes, a Vande Bharat coach maintenance was opened at Jheel Siding, Howrah on 29.03.2023.
In this maintenance depot at Howrah, Vande Bharat rakes are maintained by an integrated and dedicated team of specialists from different units of Eastern Railway for comprehensive maintenance. This Jheel Siding Coaching Depot has been augmented by RVNL (Rail Vikas Nigam Limited) in two phases and is now able to maintain rakes of eighteen (18) coach length with an all-weather 425 m long shed having 3 tier maintenance facility. In fact, this Jheel siding now has the longest shed (425 m) of Eastern Railway having a three-tier maintenance facility for the Vande Bharat train. Heavy repair shed of 100m length, EOT crane for lifting of coaches, and washing line are also available at this coaching depot. Besides the Vande Bharat rake maintenance facility, Jheel Siding Coaching Depot has also 3 lines for washing cum maintenance of passenger trains.
It was due to such alert monitoring at Eastern Railway’s Vande Bharat coach maintenance depot at Howrah, a technical glitch of Vande Bharat Rake could be detected well in advance on 25.8.2023, and an alternative rake was arranged to run 22301 Howrah – New Jalpaiguri, train.
Shri Kausik Mitra, Chief Public Relations Officer, Eastern Railway said that Eastern Railway maintenance teams are always alert and try to detect any problem in advance for a hassle-free journey for the passengers.
