New Delhi: After the profitable rollout of Vande Bharat, the Yr 2023 will see the launch of Vande Metro, authorities’s one other bold venture to modernize the Indian Railways.
Vande Metro is a set of hydrogen-powered trains that may substitute the locomotive engines designed in Nineteen Fifties & Nineteen Sixties, largely operating on small & previous routes.
The hydrogen powered trains will run totally on heritage strains, largely well-known for toy prepare routes in Himachal & Maharashtra.
The USP of the venture that this can be a community of solely indigenously constructed trains and can take off by December 2023. The primary designs of the trains could be made public by Might & June this 12 months.
The hydrogen-powered trains had been just lately launched in China.
With India rolling out Vande Metro, this can be India’s massive impetus on harnessing the inexperienced hydrogen for locomotive mobility & scale back dependence on standard system. Authorities has laid out intentions of growing India as a world hub for inexperienced hydrogen & related expertise for the world. If it succeeds, this can be one other feat & achievements in direction of attaining the objectives of local weather change management.
What are routes on which Hydrogen trains will ply?
The Ministry of Railways has determined to run the hydrogen-powered trains on 8 heritage routes, as following :
Matheran Hill Railway, which has a size of 19.97 kms.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway which has a size of 88.6 kms.
Kalka – Shimla Railway which has a size of 96.5 kms.
Kangra Valley Railway which has a size of 164 kms.
Bilmora Waghai Root which has a size of 62.7 kms.
Mhow Patalpani Root which has a size of 58 kms.
Nilgiri Mountain Root which has a size of 46 kms.
Marwar Devgarh Madriya Root which has a size of 52 kms.
By when, Vande Metro will begin chugging?
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, talking on the latest fleet of trains, stated that India will look to fabricate the Vande Metro in giant numbers.
Hydrogen-powered trains is the newest expertise being adopted by world powers to fight local weather change. India has been fast to undertake this expertise.
In August final 12 months, Germany launched the hydrogen-powered trains for the primary time. As these trains don’t produce noise and don’t add to excessive air pollution ranges, it has discovered itself on high precedence areas of many governments.
For now, the hydrogen-powered trains are deliberate on these routes the place tough terrains limit full electrification of the prepare venture.