Trains At A Glance 2022-2023 PDF
Freight Reforms in Indian Railways
- Transforming Rail Logistics Network with enhanced Scale, Speed and Capacity
- Dedicated Freight Corridors will enhance ease of doing business, cut down logistics cost – Shri Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Introduction
The freight services of Indian Railways continued to run unhindered during the lockdown period providing the much needed transportation of essential goods throughout the country. With healthy participation from the private sector and improved average speed this financial year has improved the wagon availability to a very large extent and demands of the customers are being met to their satisfaction. This has been achieved by intense customer focused approach by Railway at all levels by ensuring availability of rolling stock just in time to meet demand and achieving a sustained improvement in transit reliability. The average speed of freight trains which had stagnated at a level of 20-25 Kmph for many years has nearly doubled to 45-50 Kmph. A Zero Based Time Table has been finalised which efficiently allocates freight, passenger and maintenance corridors separately optimising the network capacity to run trains without any conflict. All these reforms have resulted in record jump in freight in various commodities as evident
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