RailEnquiry

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad-New Delhi Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express, the most sought after train for New Delhi from the city has helped the Western Railway to earn an additional passenger revenue of Rs 1.53 crore, The Western railway has in April introduced coaches new coaches which were based on new German technology LHB coaches. The new coaches are more spacious and without jerks.

The Rajdhani on an average will be able to accommodate around 120 odd more passengers daily. Senior officials said that the Rajdhani with the new LHB coaches will have it first run from the city on Friday.

Officials said that apart from the routine comfort, these coaches have capacity to accommodate about 72 passengers in each AC-3 coach as against 64 passengers in other routine coach. Similarly, the number of berths is more in LHB AC-2 will have capacity to accommodate 52 passengers against the 46 in the routine coach. In AC-1 coaches there were be space for 24 passengers against the capacity of 18 in the present coaches,.

Officials said that by accommodating more passengers, the Railway got an additional revenue of Rs 1.26 lakh per trip. In a day a up and down train would save Rs 2.52 lakh. Railway officials since April 13 till today, the railways would have earned an additional revenue of Rs 1.53 crore.

Also the officials said that "thanks to LHB coaches, diesel worth Rs around Rs 70 lakh will be saved per year in Rajdhani express. Earlier, one trip used to consume 3600 liter diesel, which is now 3420 liter. This means, on every trip, 5% diesel is saved."