India’s First “Make-In-India” Electric Engine Launched Today
The first all-electric train was completed by Alstom on time from its high-tech locomotive facility at Madhepura in Bihar. The train is the first of many more to come after the Government and the Indian Railways set up the target of achieving a 100% electrification of the railways in India and therefore step closer to sustainable mobility. Additionally, the new electric trains will cut down operating costs of the Railways by a huge margin and a huge volume of greenhouse gas emissions.
This first all-electric train will lead the way in the €3.5 billion order for a fleet of 800 electric double-section locomotives signed in 2015. This initiative comes under the Ministry of Railway’s public-private partnership programme as they want to modernize the overall Indian railway infrastructure. Th...