Odisha: ECoR to install automatic coach washing plant at Puri

  • | Thursday | 21st February, 2019

BHUBANESWAR: East Coast Railway (ECoR) will install Automatic Coach Washing Plant at Puri coach maintenance depot for smooth washing of exterior of trains without cleaning it manually. Similar coach washing plants may come up at Bhubaneswar and MEMU Shed at Khurda Road in future, said the ECoR.This model of automatic coach washing plant is working successfully at Wadi in the Central Railway. “The automatic washing plant will need less fresh water in cleaning of coaches. The cleaning of coaches will be done while it passes through a nominated line of the coach maintenance depot. “Tenders have been finalized and it is expected that the plant will come up at Puri latest by December 2019.

BHUBANESWAR: East Coast Railway (ECoR) will install Automatic Coach Washing Plant at Puri coach maintenance depot for smooth washing of exterior of trains without cleaning it manually. Visakhapatnam coach maintenance depot will also get a plant like this.The railway zone has already placed orders with the central organisation for modernization of workshops (Cofmow), New Delhi, an autonomous organization under the ministry of railways, to set up these plants.Estimated cost of each plant is approximately Rs 2 crore. “Tenders have been finalized and it is expected that the plant will come up at Puri latest by December 2019. Similar position is expected for Visakhapatnam too,” said a senior ECoR official.The firm Cofmow has already completed site visit at Puri. “The automatic washing plant will need less fresh water in cleaning of coaches. Dust, dirt and other deposits on the exterior of the train will be cleaned properly. The cleaning of coaches will be done while it passes through a nominated line of the coach maintenance depot. Now the coaches are being cleaned in stationary position,” said Manas Poddar, principal chief mechanical engineer of ECoR.The effluent treatment plan will treat the waste water for re-use. It is expected that each empty train will be cleaned in about 20 minutes time. Similar coach washing plants may come up at Bhubaneswar and MEMU Shed at Khurda Road in future, said the ECoR.This model of automatic coach washing plant is working successfully at Wadi in the Central Railway.

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