Duronto’s LHB rakes ready but no one to flag them off

Nagpur | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

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The jolts will be a thing of the past LHB rake is used.Both the rakes have 18 coaches each. Sources said one LHB rake was ready earlier. Many passengers complain of jerks in present Duronto rakes which are being operated with hybrid coaches, where a LHB shell is mounted on a modified conventional bogie. In second rake, only one AC-I coach was awaited which has also now arrived and everything is ready for formal inauguration.Bharatiya Yatri Kendra (BYK) general secretary Basant Kumar Shukla told TOI, “LHB coaches can travel at higher speed. Modi had flagged off Ajni-Pune Humsafar Express through video link.“Now fresh dates are being sought from the minister,” they said..