Indian Railways runs its most powerful 'Made in India' locomotive
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Indian Railways runs its most powerful ‘Made in India’ locomotive

New Delhi: The Indian Railways on Monday (May 18, 2020) turned the sixth nation on the planet to hitch the elite membership of manufacturing excessive horsepower locomotive indigenously. It was the primary time, a excessive horsepower locomotive was operationalised on a broad gauge observe on the planet. 

The locomotive has been produced below the Make in India programme. The challenge was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 10, 2018. 

The first 12000 HP made in India Locomotive, manufactured by Madhepura Electric Loco Factory located in Bihar, was put into operation by Indian Railways from Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Jn Station.

The loco is known as WAG12 with Number 60027. The prepare departed from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Station at 14:08 hrs in lengthy haul formation for Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway, consisting of 118 wagons which travelled from Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Jn to Barwadih by way of Dehri-on-Sone, Garhwa Road.

These locomotives are state of artwork IGBT primarily based, three part drive, 9000 KW (12000 horsepower) electrical locomotive. 

The locomotive is able to most tractive effort of 706 kN, which is able to beginning and working a 6000 T prepare within 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 velocity of 120 kmph. 

This locomotive shall be a game-changer for additional motion of coal trains for Dedicated Freight Corridor. 

The locomotives could be tracked by GPS for its strategic use by embedded software program and Antennae being lifted by the servers on the bottom by a microwave hyperlink.

The locomotive is able to engaged on railway tracks with standard OHE strains in addition to on Dedicated Freight corridors with excessive rise OHE strains. The locomotive has air-conditioned driver cabs on both aspect. The locomotive is supplied with regenerative braking system which supplies substantial vitality financial savings throughout operations. These excessive horsepower locomotives will assist to decongest the saturated tracks by bettering the typical velocity of freight trains.

The Madhepura manufacturing facility is the most important built-in Green Field facility constructed to the very best requirements of high quality and security with a manufacturing capability of 120 locomotives and unfold throughout an enormous 250 acres. Madhepura Electric Locomotive Pvt. Ltd. (MELPL) will manufacture 800 State of the Art 12000 HP Electric Freight Locomotives in 11 years and being probably the most energy full-electric locomotives on the planet will improve the velocity of freight trains and can enable quicker, safer and heavier freight trains to maneuver throughout the nation, thus lowering congestion in visitors. 

It may also result in appreciable financial savings in vitality consumption by regenerative braking. 

As a part of the challenge, the manufacturing facility together with township has been arrange in Madhepura, Bihar with a capability to fabricate 120 locomotives per 12 months. 

The challenge will create greater than 10,000 direct and oblique jobs within the nation. More than Rs 2,000 crores has already been invested within the challenge by the corporate.

Along with the manufacturing facility, socio-economic improvement in Madhepura is being pushed by this challenge. As a part of CSR initiative talent centres are being arrange in Madhepura to impart coaching to native folks.

The prototype locomotive was delivered in March 2018. Based on the test outcomes having design points, the whole locomotive together with bogies has been redesigned. 

The new design of locomotive has been inspected by RDSO on the Madhepura manufacturing facility and cleared for dispatch from the manufacturing facility on November 16, 2019. 

Further RDSO has performed oscillation trials at numerous speeds as much as 132 kmph and the locomotive has handed oscillation trials efficiently. 

The design was accomplished for the entire locomotive in a file time of 4 to 6 months and regardless of the preliminary hiccups and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn’t dampen the spirit of August initiative of IR, surpassing all odds, it may safe the permission of the Bihar Govt to renew operations on the Madhepura Factory placing the challenge again on observe.

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