TIWN
Hyderabad, July 22 (TIWN) In an initiative aimed at increasing the market share of Indian Railways in the movement of general cargo across the nation, the South Central Railway (SCR) will be launching its first Cargo Express train on August 5.
The SCR announced on Wednesday that under this concept, a time tabled freight train will be started from Sanath Nagar in Hyderabad to Adarsh Nagar in New Delhi. The SCR has taken this as a pilot project for a period of six months and would be running the Cargo Express once a week every Wednesday. “Generally, only those commodities are being moved by freight trains which are in bulk and require transportation of a huge quantity by a single train by the customers.
All these freight trains are generally loaded with a single commodity. However, with the gradual increase in the market for transportation of non-bulk commodity segments, it is imperative that Railways take steps to attract this segment of traffic as well,” it said. Under this unique concept, general cargo will be carried into a single train to the mutual benefit of both Railways and freight customers because transportation by the Railways is not only safest but is also cost-effective. For the first time in nearly four decades, Indian Railways is permitting wagon level indenting to aid small and medium-sized customers. Customers having even one wagon material of 60 tonnes can book their cargo on this train.
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