PESB recommends Ajit Kumar Panda for CONCOR CMDAjit Kumar Panda has been recommended for the top post of Chairman and Managing Director at CONCOR. The selection meeting took place on Sat...
18 Apr, 2026, 11.15 PM IST
593 EMU, MEMU coaches manufactured till November in 2024-25: Railway ministerRailway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Rajya Sabha that 593 EMU/MEMU coaches were manufactured until November 2024. He stated that ...
20 Dec, 2024, 08.29 PM IST
Railways plans PLI scheme for train partsThe Indian Government is planning a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for train component makers, aiming to attract foreign manufact...
15 Aug, 2023, 10.45 PM IST
Railway coach making chugs past slowdownThe Indian Railways manufactured 4,182 coaches till the end of October 2019, officials said, against 3,241 units built a year ago. The prod...
07 Nov, 2019, 03.27 PM IST
PM asks Railways to prepare policy on removal of all unmanned level crossingsThe government will prioritise removing manned level crossings on high density networks, and the task may require a ‘few lakh crores’ over ...
03 Jul, 2019, 07.07 PM IST
First batch of Made in India wheels for high speed trains now readyWheels for high speed trains have so far been imported by Indian Railways. Indigenous manufacturing of LHB wheels had thus became extremely...
25 Mar, 2019, 05.45 PM IST
Coaches with anti-collision device to be built from 2018: Piyush GoyalThe LHB coaches have in-built anti-collision devices which cause less fatalities, while more fatalities have been recorded in the ICF coach...
29 Dec, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
Conventional coaches to be replaced with modern LHB coachesCurrently, railways have about 50,000 conventional coaches which will be retrofitted with modern safety features in phases.
22 Jan, 2017, 04.28 PM IST
Railways trying all possibilities to reduce accidents, but do they have financial muscle?After Indore-Patna express derailment, Railways is keen to quicken pace of replacing all coaches with LHB coaches, a process that was first...
11 Dec, 2016, 10.31 AM IST
Kanpur train accident fallout: Shift to safer LHB coaches may take 30 yearsAs per the railways' coach production programme, the production units will make 1253 LHB coaches in 2016-17.
23 Nov, 2016, 11.07 AM IST
Railways vows to replace older coaches after tragedyThe toll could have been much lesser had the Railways completely switched over to the manufacture of LHB coaches -which do not pile up unli...
22 Nov, 2016, 11.23 AM IST
Suresh Prabhu unveils LHB Unit at Integral Coach Factory in ChennaiRailways Minister Suresh Prabhu today launched the LHB unit at the Integral Coach Factory here, set up at a cost of Rs 252 crore.
06 Jul, 2015, 10.40 PM IST
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to launch 50,000th coach on July 6Railways will roll out its 50,000th coach on July 6, marking a momentous occasion for the national transporter in achieving a record perfor...
03 Jul, 2015, 08.14 PM IST
Integral Coach Factory to produce over 360 LHB rail coaches in two yearsThe production unit of Indian Railways manufacturing passenger coaches had for the first time produced three variants of LHB EOG shells dur...
27 Jan, 2015, 04.29 PM IST
Railway Budget 2013 is a balanced one: P Dwarkanath, BEMLThe emphasis is going to be on mainline coaches and suburban trains, where we have a very comfortable order book position.
26 Feb, 2013, 08.47 PM IST
Rajdhani-like coaches for all trainsStainless steel seems to be future for Indian railways desperately trying to increase the life span of its coaches & wagons & increase the ...
17 Sep, 2012, 12.30 PM IST
- Railways to double up production of new age LHB coaches
Railways have decided to double the production of new age LHB coaches keeping in mind their enhanced safety features.
24 Feb, 2012, 03.20 PM IST