Title - Railways to produce LHB coaches only from 2018

Railway will switch to production of LHB only from 2018. As of now 84% of train wagons that are being operated across the country are unsafe. To come over this crisis railway has adopted a time bound strategy to phase out ICF coaches entirely.

After more than 145 lives lost in Indore – Patna Express accident that occurred due to derailment, it came out that most of the lives are lost when coaches collided and crushed each other by toppling one over other.

In a report presented to railway board it was mentioned that there are currently 63000 coaches which are deployed by Indian Railways across the country. Out of these 53,000 coaches are unsafe and the remaining 10,000 are only used in Rajdhani or Shatabdi trains.

These coaches do not have anti-climbing tech during the time of collision. Taking this report seriously railway board has decided to phase out all unsafe coaches in a time bound manner and from 2018 Indian Railways will only manufacture LHB coaches. Currently railways produce 3000 coaches annually and phase out 1000 coaches annually.