Each locomotive can achieve speeds of up to 120km/h and has a hauling capacity of 5,800t. Credit: Siemens Mobility. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ‘flagged off’ the first of the 1,200 Siemens ...

Going way back in time, in 1966, traction motor power of North American diesel-electric locomotives was far less than that of Soviet Union electric locomotives. For example, individual traction motor ...

“India has been such an amazing example of a rapid transition of a diesel rail system to an electric rail system,” says Yasmine Agelidis, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an environmental nonprofit ...

Wabtec Corporation and Indian Railways on July 25 celebrated the launch of locomotive service operations at the Gooty Maintenance Shed in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh. The shed complements the ...

Indian Railways has taken a major leap in freight mobility with the dedication of the Loco Manufacturing Shop at the Rolling Stock Workshop in Dahod, Gujarat by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. This ...

Varanasi: Banaras Locomotive Works dispatched the 10th unit of a 3,300 horsepower AC–AC diesel-electric locomotive to Mozambique on Saturday, marking the completion of the export order and ...

Locomotives powered by electricity have been around for over a century, with rail lines like the now-defunct Pennsylvania Rail Road starting electric operations as early as 1905. However, the average ...

MUMBAI, June 25 (Reuters) - General Electric is keen to build a plant in India to make diesel locomotives jointly with the Indian Railways, the Business Standard reported on Monday. The proposed plant ...

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announces in Lok Sabha that the Indian Railways has saved ₹6,000 crore by transitioning ...

When it comes to improving efficiency and reducing emissions in transportation, often the answer is to take what’s old and replace it with something entirely new, such as buying an electric vehicle.

You might have played with electric trains as a child, but most life-size trains in the United States run on diesel, and the rail sector is far behind the automobile sector in moving to less-polluting ...

Indian Railways successfully commissioned the Kavach Automatic Train Protection (ATP) System on the Prayagraj (Excluding) – ...