PPT regarding TRAIN18

1. FUTURE OF INDIAN RAILWAYS
PREPARED BY,
Diptanu Das
15UME024; SEC: A
Group:2
Department Of Mechanical Engineering
NIT AGARTALA

2.  Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by
the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth-largest railway
network in the world by size. The world's eighth-largest employer, it
had 1.308 million employees.
 The first railway proposals for India were made in Madras in 1832.The
country's first train, Red Hill Railway (built by Arthur Cotton to
transport granite for road-building), ran from Red Hills to
the Chintadripet bridge in Madras in 1837.
 India's first passenger train, hauled by three steam locomotives ran for
34 kilometres on broad gauge track between Bori Bunder (Mumbai)
and Thane on 16 April 1853.
 IR has their own manufacturing unit such as CLW in Chittaranjan
Asansol, DLW Varanasi, BHEL, Electric Locomotive Factory at
Madhepura for manufacturing of locomotive.
 They also have Integral Coach Factory, Rail Coach Factory, Modern
Coach Factory for production of coaches and Rail Wheel
Factory at Yelahanka, Bangalore and the Rail Wheel
Plant, in Chhapra, Bihar manufactures wheels and axles.

3.  Integral Coach Factory (ICF) is a manufacturer of rail coaches located
in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was established in 1952, is owned and
operated by the Indian Railways. The coach factory primarily
manufactures rolling stock and coaches for Indian Railways but also
exports railway coaches to other countries.
 ICF manufactures more than 170 varieties of coach including first and
second class coaches, pantry and kitchen cars, luggage and brake vans,
self-propelled coaches, electric(EMU), diesel (DMU) and mainline
electric multiple unit (MEMU), metro coaches and diesel electric tower
cars, accident relief medical vans (ARMV), inspection cars (RA), fuel
test cars, track recording cars and luxury coaches.
 All the credit goes to the engineers of ICF Chennai for making a such
Indigenously built engineless semi high-speed train for Indian
Railway.

4.  Shatabdi Express trains are a series of fast passenger trains operated
by Indian Railways to connect Metro cities with other cities important
for tourism, pilgrimage or business.
 The first Shatabdi Express train was introduced in 1988, by then
Railways Minister Madhavrao Scindia to commemorate the birth
centenary of Jawahar Lal Nehru the first Prime Minister of India,
between New Delhi and Jhansi Junction, later it extended up to Bhopal ,
which is now known as New Delhi- Bhopal Shatabdi and it is the
India's second fastest train.

5.  Train 18 is an Indian semi-high speed train and India's
first intercity electric multiple unit, a type of self-propelled engine-less
train.
 It is also the first train to be designed and built entirely in India. It was
designed and built by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai under the
Indian government's Make in India Initiative over a span of 18
months.

6.  Train 18's exterior appearance has been likened to that of a bullet
train, with an aerodynamic narrowing of each end of the train. It has a
driver coach at each end of the train, allowing for faster turnaround at
each end of the line.
 The train has 16 passenger cars, with a seating capacity of 1,128
passengers. Two of the center compartments are first class
compartments that seat 52 each, with the rest
being coach compartments seating 78 each.

8.  Train 18 based on the basic principle of EMU and metro trains that run
in the cities and suburban without locomotives. In case of Train 18 the
EMU technology used is more complex and more advanced.
 According to ICF officials, “In Train 18, every alternate coach will be
powered /motorized. It will be called a motor coach. Each motor coach
will have four 3-phase traction motors of rating 250 kw, approximately
making the total rating of the motor coach – 1000 KW ( 1340 HP).”
“For the 16-car train set, this will work out to 8 motor coaches × 1340
HP = 10,720 HP. This will be the power available for traction apart
from the air-conditioning and other auxiliary electric loads. Two motor
coaches will get power from one transformer mounted on the TC
(trailer coach),” and all these motors are mounted under the coaches.
 The train's regenerative brakes are also expected to allow a 30%
savings in electricity costs as compared to its predecessor.

10.  Aerodynamically designed driver cabins at both ends for quicker turn-
around at destinations
 Alternate coaches are motorised to ensure even distribution of power
and faster acceleration or deceleration.
 onboard Wi-Fi and infotainment,
 GPS-based passenger information system
 CCTVs in all coaches for safe and secure travel
 modular toilets with bio-vacuum systems and disabled-friendly toilets.
 Regenerative braking system to save power
 Inter-connected, fully sealed gangways
 Rotational seats(360 deg) which can be aligned in the direction of
travel
 Train 18 will reduce the journey time upto 15% to 20% from the
present journey time.

11.  The train has automatic doors which opens only after the train has
halted at a station and the train moves only after all the automatic
doors are closed. And it has automatic sliding footboards. This train
also has automatic IC doors.

14.  Possible peak speed: 200 km/h
 It will operate commercially at an speed of 160 km/h.
 It reached a speed of 180 km/h , the highest speed train in India,
during the trial run of its operating speed at a section of track between
KOTA and SAWAI MADHOPUR.

15.  The unit cost of the first rake was given as ₹100 crore (US$14 million)
which it is estimated to be 40% less costly than a similar train
imported from Europe.
 When the full fledge production of Train 18 will start the cost of the
train will reduce more.
 According to railway official there are more 5 Train 18’s are in the
pipeline and will expected to roll out from the ICF to the next Fiscal
year. And also they have the capacity to build 200 Train 18 coaches
annualy.

17.  Train 18 completed almost all the trial run conducted by the RDSO and
also it completed all the necessary test like water bottle test, stability test ,
high speed test. Now it is waiting for the green signal given by the Railway
safety commissioner for running on the track.
 According its name suggest TRAIN 18, it will start its commercial journey
by the end of this month.
 According to Railway within the next Fiscal Year there will be more 5 T18
train set expected to roll out from the ICF.
 According to railway official they will replace the Train 18 with the
Bhopal- New Delhi Shatabdi express which is serving to the Indian
railway for last 30 years.
 They are also introduce TRAIN 20 in 2020 to replace RAJDHANI
EXPRESS.