The Indian Railways’ first Oxygen Express is expected to begin operations by Monday evening. It will be a roll-on-rail-off (RoRo) train on which trucks or tankers are put to ferry them to a destination, as per the Central Railway officials.
Empty tankers for carrying liquid oxygen were being loaded at Kalamboli railway yard of the Central Railway on Monday morning. The train will head to a steel plant in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Liquid oxygen will then be loaded in tankers, put on the freight wagon and brought back to Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai.
A green corridor with movement priority will be provided to the Oxygen Express. The tankers will then head via road to different locations in Maharashtra.
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The Oxygen Express will also be operated from Boisar railway yard in Palghar district of Maharashtra. Thirty-two tankers can be placed on the flat wagons.
A government statement said a meeting between railway board officials and state transport commissioners took place on transportation of liquid oxygen.
{{/usCountry}}A government statement said a meeting between railway board officials and state transport commissioners took place on transportation of liquid oxygen.
{{/usCountry}}“It was decided that the tankers would be organised by the transport commissioner, Maharashtra. These empty tankers would be moved from Kalamboli/Boisar, railway stations in and near Mumbai, and sent to Vizag and Jamshedpur/Rourkela/Bokaro, for loading of liquid medical oxygen tankers from there,” said the statement.