Indian Railways reaches another milestone, operates 'SheshNaag' - the longest train ever
The Indian Railways on Thursday broke another recordby operating 'SheshNaag', a 2.8 Km long train amalgamating 4 empty BOXN rakes, powered by 4 sets of electric locomotives.
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways on Thursday (July 2, 2020) broke another record by operating 'SheshNaag', a 2.8 km-long train amalgamating four empty BOXN rakes, powered by four sets of electric locomotives.
It may be noted that 'SheshNaag' is the longest train ever to be operated by the Indian Railways. The formation was made by joining four empty BOXN rakes and is powered by four sets of electric locomotives. It has nine engines and four guards van.
The 251-wagon long-haul goods train named ‘SheshNaag’ was operated by the South East Central Railway (SECR), Nagpur Division of the Indian Railways.
The Ministry of Railways took to Twitter on July 2 to share a video clip of the "longest train ever to run on Indian Railways".
Two days ago, on June 30, the Railway Ministry had run a 177-coach freight train named ‘Super Anaconda’.
Importantly, the Indian Railways reached this feat on a day when it achieved 100 percent punctuality for the first time ever.
The Indian Railways said in a release that on Thursday (July 2, 2020), it achieved 100 percent punctuality of trains for the first time in history as 201 trains that that run on this day reached the destination on time.
Prior to this India Railways has achieved 99.54 percent punctuality of trains on June 23 with the delay of only one train making it the second-best rate after today.