BG LHB AC Chair Car - Tejas Express --- The sight of a brightly chromed rake with the sun painted on its graffiti proof exterior, makes one optimistic that this is going to be a different train journey. Upon entering the executive class compartment, the plush push back seats and individual entertainment screens increase one's anticipation. There are charging points for every pair of seats and the luggage rack runs seamlessly above the seats like in luxury buses. For passengers of Indian railways who are used to ICF blue coaches with dodgy window shutters, grimy curtains and shoving luggage below the seat, the spanking new Tejas Express appears to be a marker of a new era of luxury train travel in India. Tejas - which means sharp/lustre/brilliance, the country's first semi-high speed, fully air-conditioned train.
The newly designed coaches are capable of running at a speed of 200 kmph but due to constraints related to rail tracks these coaches will run at a speed of 160 kmph. The rake comprising 19 coaches includes sixteen non-executive and two executive chair cars besides one power coach. It is also first time in the history of Indian railways that an 'automatic entrance plug door' has been introduced which provides better sound and heat insulation adding that doors installed in the entire rake would be controlled by a guard panel. The luxury chair cars are fitted with nine inch LCD screen with touch screen control on the back of every seat and a personalized infotainment system besides USB charging facility is fitted on every seat. The other features include highly comfortable and adjustable e-leather upholstery, redesigned arm rest and adequate leg support. These coaches are also fitted with improved couplers which would provide jerk free comfortable ride even at high speeds and coaches are fitted with new braking system. Facilities like wi-fi and a mechanism where passengers can call attendant by using the bell attached to panel, would be provided. Tejas coaches also have got improved lavatory and bio toilets with airlines like vacuum evacuation besides sensor taps and soap dispenser. Equipped with CCTV cameras besides smoke and fire detection system, these trains will have GPS-based passenger information display system.
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