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INDORE: Work is underway on the project to develop the country’s first hydrogen train and efforts are being made to start its trial in the current financial year itself, Railway Board Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti has said.
Running trains on hydrogen would be a huge “technological breakthrough” in the country, Lahoti told reporters according to media reports on May 4.
“The Northern Railway has already awarded the contract to develop the hydrogen train and work is underway on it,” he said.
Hydrogen train is a new technology at the international level and such a train is being developed for the first time in the country, hence the Indian Railways is aiming to complete the project in an efficient manner instead of setting very strict timelines for it, he said.
“We want the testing of hydrogen trains to start in this financial year in the country,” Lahoti said.
