Indian Railways Will Reportedly Receive Upgrades From This Big Tech Firm

Ravi Adwani - Jun 18, 2019

Indian Railways is now having Siemens Ltd as the indigenously-made propulsion system supplier. Siemens aims to upgrade all Indian electric locomotives.

Siemens Ltd is now the indigenously-made propulsion system supplier for Indian Railways. Their main goal is to upgrade all current and future electric locomotives.

Improving Indian Railways

From now on, Indian Railways is going to use 9,000 HP electric locomotives instead of the old 6,000 HP series. Siemens stated that the new 9,000 HP electric locomotives will include some major upgrades. In fact, they will have an Indian-made integrated propulsion system, for the first time. Furthermore, the steel tank transformer is also indigenously-designed.

Indian-Railways-Hp-Locomotives — Indian Railways to use new 9,000 HP electric locomotives.

Expected bonuses

Siemens predicted that Indian Railways will have a huge 50 percent boost in the haulage capacity, using the new locomotive model. Thus, the industry can expect a significant improvement in the speed and rolling stock assets usage.

The technology focuses on saving the cost of traction energy. After that, it can aim for further targets like decreasing fuel expenses as well as carbon emissions.

Tilak Raj Seth, the Executive Vice President from Siemens did share his thoughts on the technology. According to him, this improvement definitely marks an important milestone for India.

For Indian Railways, they are steadily stepping towards the perfect vision, a future of completely high technology railway industry. With the help of Siemens, Indian Railways will soon achieve its final goal.

About Siemens

Siemens is a global powerhouse focusing on the areas of electrification, digitalization, and automation. Also, it is one of the world’s biggest producers of resource-saving technologies and energy-efficient. In infrastructure and industry solutions, the company also plays a pioneering role. Siemens is now a top supplier, providing smart mobility alternatives for road and rail transport, as well as infrastructure solutions in Smart Cities.

This cooperation between India Railways and Siemens is an example of how technology can rapidly change our life, towards creating a better one. We definitely hope to hear more about news similar to this in the future.