Indian Railways introduces new system to ease water woes in trains

The challenge lies in faster filling of water into coaches with minimal wastage. To ensure this, Indian Railways has introduced ‘Quick Watering System’.

Hyderabad: Ever wondered as to how much water is required for each coach in a train? It is about 1,600 litres. And, each train requires around 40,000 litres of water to fill all its coaches. But the challenge lies in faster filling of water into these coaches with minimal wastage. To ensure this, Indian Railways has introduced ‘Quick Watering System’.

Carriage watering is normally done at originating stations of the trains and it mostly suffices for trains running between shorter distances and for trains running during night times. But for trains running for longer durations and those running during day time, it is important to fill the water at intermediate locations as well.

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Accordingly, South Central Railway (SCR) has identified certain important stations as some carriage watering stations to fill water in the coaches of en route trains. But, it takes considerable time to fill all the coaches of the train. To overcome this challenge, a new method of carriage watering called ‘Quick Watering System’ has been introduced. The quick watering facility not only provides a fast mechanism to provide water to all passengers in train, it also avoids both wastage of water and delay in train operations.

Under SCR limits, the new system is being implemented at Secunderabad, Kacheguda and Vijayawada railway stations. The new system is also being extended at coach watering stations like Nanded, Aurangabad, Tirupati, Krishna, Kondapuram and Renigunta at a cost of Rs 15 crore.

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