The train reached Nasik Road station at 10.25 am, where four tankers were unloaded, the Central Railway said in a statement.
The first Oxygen Express carrying liquid medical oxygen tankers from Visakhapatnam reached Nashik in Maharashtra on Saturday morning. The train reached Nasik Road station at 10.25 am, where four tankers were unloaded, the Central Railway (CR) said in a statement.
Tweeting about it, Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal said, “‘Oxygen Express’ train loaded with liquid medical oxygen tankers from Vizag has reached Nashik. 4 Oxygen tankers have been unloaded to provide additional oxygen to the patients." Of the seven tankers filled with liquid medical oxygen, three were unloaded in Nagpur after the train arrived there at 8.10 pm on Friday. After its departure from there, the train reached Nashik in 12 hours, the CR said.
The train was carrying 100 tonnes of medical liquid oxygen from Rashtriya IspatNigam Ltd in Vishakhapatnam, from where it had begun its journey on April 22.
“Railways took the movement of Oxygen Express as a challenge and successfully ran the first Oxygen Express from Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai to Visakhapatnam and back up to Nashik," it said. The moment railways got the request for it, ramps were constructed at various places immediately for the movement of liquid medical oxygen tankers. The ramp at Kalamboli was built in only 24 hours, the statement said.
The distance between Kalamboli and Visakhapatnam is more than 1,850 km, which was completed by these tankers only in about 50 hours. Seven tankers with more than 100 tons of liquid medical oxygen were loaded in 10 hours and transported back to Nagpur in only 21 hours, it said.
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