Title - India Railways plans to develop LNG based loco

Business Line reported that Russian Railways backed joint company, BHEL and Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd backed Indo Russian Aviation Ltd have expressed interest in developing a LNG turbine based locomotive for heavy and long haul operations.

Research Design and Standards Organization, the research arm of Indian Railways had invited expressions of interest to develop a locomotive prototype equipped with a single gas turbine operating on LNG. This is expected to bring down the operating cost of locomotives.

Mr Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy minister of State of Railways said that 3 parties have shown interest joint stock company led by Russian Railway Research Institute, Moscow; Indo Russian Aviation Ltd and BHEL.