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For the archetypal time, the implicit 90-year-old Golden Rock Railway Workshop astatine Ponmalai successful Tiruchi is to transportation retired overhauling of the modern Vande Bharat bid coaches wrong its sprawling premises.
One rake consisting of 16 Vande Bharat coaches arrived connected Monday (December 1, 2025) for complete overhauling astatine this British-built workshop. The coaches of the Vande Bharat bid sent for overhaul were successful cognition connected the Chennai - Mysuru wide gauge section.
About 250 method unit of the store belonging to the mechanical and electrical wings would transportation retired this elaborate workout meticulously examining each coach. This is for the archetypal clip that the Golden Rock Railway Workshop is to overhaul Vande Bharat coaches, the store authorities told The Hindu connected Tuesday (December 2).
The store volition undertake SS-2 (Shop Schedule) overhauling of the coaches which is done each 3 years. Technical unit of the store had already visited railway workshops astatine Matunga successful Mumbai, Ajmer successful Rajasthan and Charbagh successful Lucknow to summation archetypal manus exposure, acquisition and grooming successful the attraction of the Vande Bharat coaches up of carrying retired the exercise.
The Railway Board, New Delhi had nominated the Golden Rock Railway Workshop astatine Tiruchi to undertake SS-I (Shop Schedule) and different large schedules of the Vande Bharat bid sets.
The Vande Bharat trains are semi-high velocity work which are being operated by the railways connected assorted sections crossed the railway web including connected immoderate stretches successful the Southern Railway zone. The indigenously developed archetypal Vande Bharat bid was flagged disconnected successful February 2019 connected the New Delhi - Varanasi route.
The Vande Bharat coaches are equipped with modern facilities specified arsenic automatic doors, GPS-based audio ocular rider accusation system, comfy seating and intelligent braking strategy which enables amended acceleration and deceleration. The enforcement people of these coaches has rotating chairs inside. Due to its faster travel time, the Vande Bharat trains person been enjoying bully patronage.
The store authorities said the overhauling enactment involves introspection of bogies, furnishing attraction pertaining to seats, introspection of wheels, bearings and flooring, attraction of electrical instrumentality and extortion mounted aerial conditioned units, vinyl wrapping astatine due portions among others.
New bogies would beryllium replaced with the existing ones wherever required. A caller overgarment of overgarment would beryllium fixed connected the exterior and interior portions of the coaches arsenic portion of the overhauling work. The program is to implicit the overhauling of the Vande Bharat coaches successful 45 days, said the authorities.
