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New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) India will get its first tilting trains by 2025-26 with 100 Vande Bharat trains being manufactured using this technology which enables trains to maneuver curves at higher speeds, just as a motorbike on a winding road, a senior official said on Friday.
He said 100 of the 400 Vande Bharat trains to be manufactured by 2025 will have this technology.
"We will have tilting trains in the country.
We will tie up with a technology partner for this.
We will have this technology in 100 Vande Bharat trains over the next two to three years," the official noted.
Tilting trains have a mechanism enabling higher speed on regular broad-gauge tracks.
They tilt while negotiating a bend or curve on the track.
Such trains are now operational in 11 countries -- Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, the UK, Switzerland, China, Germany and Romania.
Explaining how such trains work, an official said as a train rounds a curve at speed, it cause objects to slide about.