Special milk train from AP to Delhi running at 110kmph

Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:5.4.2020

Freight trains running at 110kmph may sound impossible, but a “Duronto Doodh special” carrying six tankers with over 2.4 lakh litres of milk started from Renigunta in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday and is to reach Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station in 36 hours.

With railway corridors being completely rid of passenger trains due to the nationwide lockdown, freight trains are running at high speed. Before lockdown, the average speed of freight trains was around 25kmph. South Central Railway, which is operating the special milk train, said two parcel vans were dispatched on Saturday from the same station to Secunderabad and Guntakal carrying 23 tonnes of mangoes and 23 tonnes of musk melon respectively. It said on an average, 180 freight trains are being operated daily to ensure there is no shortage of essential commodities in different parts of the country.

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