NFR to start running electric trains in Assam and Tripura soon

Agartala: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is continuing hectic efforts to start running the long-expected electric trains in southern Assam and Tripura at the earliest, officials said on Friday. An NFR official said that a trial run of the first goods train with an electric locomotive was successfully conducted on Thursday between southern Assam's Badarpur station and Tripura's Jirania station, 15 km north of Agartala railway station.

"Necessary infrastructural works, including electrification were completed recently in southern Assam and Tripura. After the successful operation of some more goods trains with electric locomotives, the running of passenger trains with electric locomotives would start on the route. We are frantically trying to start running passenger trains with electric locomotives within a month or a maximum of two months," the official told IANS.

Tripura is now well connected with Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Firozpur, Patna, and other cities of the country by several express trains but passenger train services have been solely powered by diesel-powered engines. (IANS)

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