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Chennai: The Integral Coach factory  (ICF), Indian Railways coach manufacturing unit in Chennai is ready to manufacture 3,000 coaches in this financial year (2018-19). Yet officials in the railway board has asked them to cut down the production to 2,400 coaches, said the source. [caption id="attachment_12906" align="alignnone" width="900"] Rail Coach Factory (Representation Image)[/caption] This was brought to the notice of Union railway minister Piyush Goyal during his meeting at ICF on Thursday evening. Goyal was told by ICF officials that the directives of a section of Railway Board officials are contrary to Goyal"s own orders as well as the NDA government"s " Make in India " plan. After he was briefed, Goyal called the railway board officials as well as instructed his personal secretary that ICF"s coach manufacturing plans should not be scaled down at all. "The minister wants ICF to manufacture at least 6,000 coaches eve...

New Delhi: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project – Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train  is a few years away, the Indian Railways is all geared up to introduce a couple of high-speed trains. These two kinds of trains “Train 18” and “Train 20” would replace Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains. According to reports, these two world-class trains, which would be fastest in India when introduced, are being developed at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai and Indian Railways is planning to roll out two ‘Train 18’ by August this year. Rail Coach Factory (Representation Image) Statements given by concerned officials- While ‘Train 18’ would replace Shatabdi trains, ‘Train 20’ will take place of Rajdhani trains in a phase-wise manner. Train 20 is likely to be rolled out on tracks by 2020. during trial runs the two trains clocked 176 km per hour speed. However, they will run at a maximum speed of 170 km...