The high-speed Spanish made Talgo train completed its final leg of trial runs as it completed the Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani route trial in less than 12 hours on Sunday.
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The train with nine coaches had a third trial between New Delhiand Mumbaiat 140 km per hour speed on September 7. Nine state-of-the-art train coaches manufactured by Spanish firm Talgo which are capable of running at a maximum speed of 200 kmph reached Mumbai by Ship from Spain in April. The train left Delhi at 2.45 pm on Saturday and reached Mumbai at 2.33 am on Sunday. The superfast train completed the journey under 12 hours, that was set as the targeted time. “The next step will be to wait for the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO)’s report on its performance in all the trials”, said Subrath Nath, Director, India and Asia Pacific at Talgo.
The last trial was conducted at a maximum speed of 150 kmph. “So the actual time taken by it was 11 hours 44 minutes”.
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The Spanish train Talgo has several features which help it to cover the distance in lesser time. Talgo had earlier said the fact that the trains are lightweight give the trains flexibility of natural tilting, thereby increasing its speed on the Indian tracks, the Financial Express added. The first trial run took place on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh, and then the Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.
