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These trains (initially with 10 locomotives, a mix of electric and diesel-electric) and 342 wagons have a total mass of 41,400 tonnes and are 3,780 metres (12,400 ft) long, the longest production trains in the world. The same 342-wagon trains are now powered by just five 15Es, crewed by one driver and one assistant. [2]
It became one of the longest trains in India. When the Visakhapatnam–Vijayawada line and the Vijayawada–Kazipet–Hyderabad lines were electrified, the train started running with the WAP-4 electric locomotive. Soon, the Godavari Express became the first South Central Railway train to offer 5 air-conditioned coaches.
The Cocanada AC Superfast express [1] is a tri-weekly AC Express train belonging to South Central Railway zone which connects Lingampalli and Kakinada Town.. It operates as train number 12775 from Kakinada Town to Lingampalli and as train number 12776 in the reverse direction, serving the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Khammam railway station (station code:KMT [1]) is a railway station located in Khammam district of Telangana, India.The station is served by Indian Railways and is well connected by rail to all parts of India. 98 trains arrive at or depart from the station every day, transporting over one lakh sixty thousand (160,000) passengers daily to their destinations across the country.
South Africa has the most extensive urban rail network on the continent. Transnet is the national company that oversees all modes of transport, any railways in South Africa operate under that umbrella organization. [40] Urban rail or Metrorail is specifically underneath the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa or PRASA. [41]
Train name Railroad Train endpoints Operated Blue Train: Blue Train: Pretoria-Cape Town: 1937–present Trans Karoo Express: Transnet Freight Rail: Pretoria–Cape Town?–1997 Train-de-Luxe: Johannesburg–Victoria Falls
Location Name of System Traction Type Date (From) Date (To) Notes el-Jazair ولاية الجزائر /Algiers : Steam 12 Sep 1894 1935 Electric 14 Apr 1898
The SA3 coupler has been used in a train of 43,400 t (42,700 long tons; 47,800 short tons), thus either matching or surpassing the strength of the AAR coupler. Match wagons can overcome incompatibilities at the price of extra deadweight. Similarly with coupling adapters. The type of coupling is less important when trains travel in fixed block ...