The tankers, loaded on flat wagons, left from Hapa in Gujarat on Sunday at 6.03 pm.
Indian Railways is going to deliver over 140 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen across the country in the next 24 hrs
A Ro-Ro service train carrying three tankers with approximately 44 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen will reach Kalamboli in Maharashtra on Monday morning.
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The tankers, loaded on flat wagons, left from Hapa in Gujarat on Sunday at 6.03 pm.
“A Ro-Ro service carrying three tankers loaded with Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) on flat wagons left from Hapa in Gujarat on Sunday at 6:03pm and will reach Kalamboli in Maharashtra on Monday morning. These oxygen tankers were supplied by Reliance Industries, Jamnagar. The train will traverse a distance of 860 km to reach its destination. These tankers are carrying approximately 44 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen,” said Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer of Western Railway.
The train will traverse a distance of 860 km to reach Kalamboli from Hapa in Gujarat.
Indian Railways is going to deliver over 140 metric tonnes of liquid oxygen across the country in the next 24 hrs. So far, Oxygen Express has run between Mumbai to Vizag via Nagpur to Nashik and Lucknow to Bokaro and back. A total of 10 containers having nearly 150 tonnes of liquid oxygen have been carried so far.
Necessary arrangements have been made at Hapa Goods shed for smooth movement of the Oxygen Express. It will run via Viramgam, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Vasai Road keeping in place all the safety parameters such as height of the tankers from the rail level, monitoring of pressure from time to time etc.
Liquid Oxygen being a cryogenic cargo has many limitations like maximum speed at which it can be carried, maximum acceleration & deceleration and loading restrictions like availability of liquid oxygen tankers and loading ramps etc. Route mapping also takes care of the maximum clearances available along the route (because of various RUBs and FOBs).
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