PPPs Get Rolling in Railways

March 2018

Investment opportunity stems from efforts of making rolling stock safer, faster and more efficient. The thrust on electrification is expected to give...

Tags: Investment opportunity, Electrification, Railway, CRISIL Research, DFCs, Electric locomotives, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Diesel Locomotive Works, GE, Alstom, LHB, Talgo coaches, Infrastructure, Technology, Titagarh Wagons

Railways plans Rs 10 lakh-crore high-speed train corridors

March 2018

The Indian Railways is planning to announce high-speed train corridors construction plan worth Rs 10 lakh-crore. The plan is to connect all major cit...

Tags: Indian Railways, Construction, Aluminium coaches, Bharatmala highways development programme, Railways

2,486 coaches in 2016-17 is target of ICF Chennai

September 2016

The Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, is targeting a record production of 2,486 coaches for the current year 2016-17 and has plans to produce 40...

Tags: Integral Coach Factory, Linke Hofmann Busch coaches, Stainless steel coaches

Railways gets on the infotech track

June 2016

Indian Railways has embarked on a project to integrate its operations using enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to synergise them and save on...

Tags: Indian Railways, ERP, Managing accounts, HR, Train operations, Freight yards, Wagon booking, Freight booking, Locomotives, Coaches

Railway on Overdrive

May 2016

While all the pressure to build a railway network in India in the mid-nineteenth century came from London, it is well into the 21st century that pres...

Tags: Railway, Great Depression, Passengers, British-India Railways, SNCF, French National Railway, Kolkata Metro, Gatimaan Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, Liberalisation, ICF, RCF, Linke Hoffmann-Busch, Vulcans, CLW

International Railway Equipment Exhibition | Equipped for the future

November 2015

IREE 2015 provided a glittering centre-stage for all rail-technology related organisations and individuals to display their strengths, advancements a...

Tags: IREE 2015, Rail-technology, Ingersoll Rand, NBC Bearings, Dipen Shah, Rand Power Tools, Ingersoll Rand India Limited, Sanjeev Taparia, NBC Bearings, Event, NEI, CTRB Class K, LHB Coach bearing, Infrastructure, Exhibition

Online Auction for Sale of Ferrous Scrap, Non Ferrous Scrap and Other Scrap

September 2014

E-Auction for Disposal of Ferrous scrap, non ferrous scrap, other miscellaneous scrap, condemned loco, coaches & wagons, scrap rail & other scrap p-w...

Tags: Equipment Auction, Ferrous Scrap, Non Ferrous Scrap, Other Miscellaneous Scrap, Condemned Loco, Coaches & Wagons, Scrap Rail & Other Scrap P-Way Material, Used Lead Batteries, Used Oil, Refused Oil

BHEL agrees to set up MEMU manufacturing unit

February 2013

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Railways to set up a Greenfield MEMU coaches manufacturing...

Tags: Bharat Heavy Electricals, BHEL, Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, Indian Railways, greenfield, MEMU, coaches, manufacturing, factory, project, Bhilwara