Indian Locomotive Engines: Indian Railways will export the locomotive engine built in the country for the first time outside the country. According to the Railways, the Railway Locomotive Factory located in Marhaura, Bihar, will export 150 Evolution Series ES43ACMI locomotive to the African country guinea in the next 3 years for the Simandau Iron Ore project of more than Rs 3000 crore. PM Modi will flag off the first engine to be exported from Bihar to Guinea on June 20.
This is now being considered an important step towards increasing its revenue from the Indian Railways. Railways now depends not only on the fare from passengers for their revenue, but now the sting of its engineering and innovation is playing all over the world. 150 locomotive engine will be exported to Guinea from the locomotive factory in Marhaura in Bihar. These engines will be diesel based. Out of 150 engines, 37 locomotives will be exported in this financial year, while 82 will be exported in the next financial year and 31 in third year.
Global tender for locomotive engine
Railway Board Executive Director Dilip Kumar told ABP News that all locomotives will have ac cabins for crew facilities. Apart from this, all the locomotives will have single cabin and two locomotives will be able to carry out the weight of 100 wagons. Let us know that a global tender was taken out by Guinea to buy these locomotive engines and the Indian Railways also participated in it, after which the tender of more than Rs 3000 crore was received by the Indian Railways, under which Gini will be sent from the factory of 150 engines, Marhaura in the next 3 years. That is, the price of each engine will be more than 20 crores.
Indian Railways is constructing the most locomotive engines
Dilip Kumar told ABP News that at present, Indian Railways, America, Europe, Australia etc. are also building more locomotive engines than these. These locomotives to be exported will have 4500 HP, AC propulsion, regional braking, microprocessor-based control and modular architecture. Apart from this, these engines facilitate modern facilities such as refrigerators, microwaves and water -free toilet systems. These locomotives will be equipped with DPWCs (distributed power wireless control system), which will help in coordinated operations and better goods.