Rlys to hike passenger carrying capacity

The Railways is working on augmenting passenger carrying capacity of trains with existing infrastructure.

 The strategy is to have 4-tier coaches, double decker trains and additional coaches on important trains.

“It is clear that we do not have resources to increase the number of tracks, so we are left with no option other than to concentrate on low-cost solutions to augment passenger carrying capacity of trains with the existing infrastructure,” a senior official told Deccan Herald.  

The official says that one of the options is to have four-tier coaches. 

The Railway Board, just two days ago, had organised a presentation of various designs to select relevant and suitable one which can be easily used.  

According to the officials, many lucrative designs have come up, and the Research and Design Standard Organisation, the research wing of the Railways, is expected to modify and finalise it to be used by coach factories.