Indian Railway’s Super Anaconda on Track

NFTV:Odisha: Jharsuguda: Taking a major leap in heavy haul operations, Railways has run 177 loaded wagons with three freight trains combined together between Lajkura & Raurkela in Odisha. Union minister for Railways Piyush Goyal has shared this news with visual of the freight train on his twitter.

Named as “Super Anaconda”, the three freight trains clubbed into one carried 15,000 tons of coal worth more than Rs 1 cr cargo value traversing through Bilaspur and Chakradharpur divisions, one of the busiest sections of Indian Railways, at a maximum speed of 60 kmph.

Starting from Lajkura near Brajrajnagar, the Super Anaconda reached Raurkela station in a record time of 2 hours and 15 minutes successfully negotiating typical gradients and curvatures in the 100-km section.

It was a thrilling experience to run three freight trains clubbed together at one go, said a senior railway official involved with the first of its kind operation.

The three-in-one freight service has three electric locomotives with 6000 HP (horsepower) capacity each. Railways had run three empty rakes together earlier before going for loaded wagons.

Considered as a harbinger of future heavy haul train operations in India, the 177-wagon train moved at a maximum speed of 60 kmph while maintaining the average speed at 40 kmph.

“Generally it takes about three and a half hours to cover the distance as the route is a busy one in the region. But since there is less movement of passenger trains on the route, we managed to run the freight train at a higher speed utilizing the availability of the path,” said the official.

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