Road Railer rake from December
Posted on: 11/Oct/2013 11:59:17 AM
Road Railer rake which can travel on rails and roads is being introduced by the Indian Railways. This service is being introduced between Chennai and New Delhi to facilitate door to door delivery. Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Ltd has signed an agreement with the Indian Railways in March for the manufacture and deployment of a rake, comprising 50 bogies, on the Delhi-Chennai route. It is expected that the rake will be ready by the end of this fiscal at their plant in Nashik.
On the road, the road railer is a regular trailer attached to a tractor which then backs onto a four-wheeled bogie to become a rail unit. The wheels of the trailer retract on the railway line.
The services company will run the service and is expected to pay the railways for the use of their lines while KPCL will manufacture under license from the US-based Wabash Corporation. The road railer concept is popular in countries with a vast land mass and a rail network, both of which fit India.
