Farmers Movement Archive

Electric engines to cut travelling time on Ludhiana-Dhuri track

LUDHIANA: The Northern railway authorities have turned the present crisis over farm laws into an opportunity by completing the work of electrification on the Ludhiana-Dhuri railway route. Taking the benefit of zero traffic on major routes, the railway authorities have upgraded the decade-old Ludhiana-Dhuri railway route, which till now was for the use of diesel engines, into an electric one on the by laying high tension cables. Railways authorities said the engineering department has completed all formalities to run the electric engine on the same route to reduce the use of diesel engines as they have completed all safety parameters, along with essential formalities and trial runs, in the past few days. Railways authorities are also working on the development plan of increasing the speed of passenger trains on the Ludhiana-Dhuri railway route to an estimated speed of 120km/hour by upgrading its railways tracks. Soon the railways will begin work of electrification of the Ludhiana-Mullanpur railway route in the next few months to promote their initiative of conservation of the environment. Apart from this, the railway authorities have also given instructions to all local railway security personnel to conduct random inspection on certain railway crossings in the district, especially Dhuri and Giaspura, to check for issues related to organising of religious function around the railway tracks in the next few days on the occasion of Dussehra and other festivals. Tarun Kumar, director of Ludhiana railway station, said, “The railway authorities have taken another important measure towards development of the railway infrastructure as we have completed all formalities for shifting from use of diesel engine to electric engine on Ludhiana-Dhuri railway route. Moreover, with the use of electric engines on the same route, the speed of passenger trains will increase as they have been developed with advanced technology.” Officials said in the next few years the railways will run electric engines across the border areas of Punjab to make passenger travelling more convenient.

The Times of India

2020-10-07

Ludhiana