2 Vande Bharat Trains Climb Sahyadri Ghats Without Additional Locomotives
NDTV
All trains, be it goods trains or passenger ones, are hauled up by additional locomotives from the Mumbai side when passing through these Ghats.
The two new Vande Bharat Express trains flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday became the first trains in the Indian Railways' history to ascend the two steep Ghats or mountainous sections near Mumbai without using additional locomotives, officials said.
The Vande Bharat trains for Sainagar Shirdi and Solapur, which started their journey from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus here, successfully negotiated the Thal Ghat and Bhor Ghat, respectively, without 'bankers' or additional locomotives providing them extra push in the rear.
Both the Ghats, with a gradient of 1:37 (for every 37-metre run there is a rise of one metre), are among the steepest and the toughest in the county.
All trains, be it goods trains or passenger ones, are hauled up by additional locomotives from the Mumbai side when passing through these Ghats.
