Indian Railways will offer additional 4 lakh seats per day, thanks to new technology – known as Head-on Generation (HOG)
More than four lakh additional berths will be available to passengers everyday from October when the railways will move to a technology which will help it generate power from engines, rather than power cars, for lighting and air-conditioning.
A power car needs 40 litres of diesel per hour per non-AC coach while an AC coach needs 65-70 litres of diesel per hour.
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new system, which is Eco-friendly, with no air or noise pollution will reduce carbon emissions by 700 MT per year per train.
The WAP 7 (Wide/broad Gauge AC Electric Passenger, Class 7 is a three-phase AC electric passenger locomotive developed by the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works.
A main feature of some locomotives of this class is that they eliminate the need to have separate End on Generation (EOG) sets or DG (Diesel Generator) sets for supplying power to the train resulting in significant savings on maintenance and running costs.