NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MAY 11
Indian railway has delivered nearly 5,735 tonne of oxygen in over 390 tankers to various states, the national transporter said on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Oxygen Express trains delivered 755 tonne of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) across the country.
More than 90 Oxygen Express trains have completed their journey so far.
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More than 5,735 MT of Oxygen delivered by 90 trains to Karnataka, Maharashtra, MP, Haryana, Telangana, Rajasthan, Delhi & UP.
First Oxygen Express trains to Uttarakhand & Pune to reach today.
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Since April 19, 293 tonne of LMO has been offloaded in Maharashtra, nearly 1,630 tonne in Uttar Pradesh, 340 tonne in Madhya Pradesh, 812 tonne in Haryana, 123 tonne in Telangana, 40 tonne in Rajasthan, 120 tonne in Karnataka and more than 2,383 tonne in Delhi.
Stations near Dehradun (Uttarakhand) and Pune (Maharashtra) are also set to receive their first Oxygen Express trains.
While the first Oxygen Express train to Uttarakhand is expected to reach the state on Tuesday night with 120 tonne of the life-saving gas from Jharkhand’s Tatanagar, the one to Pune is also set to reach its destination on Tuesday with more than 50 tonne of oxygen from Orissa’s Angul.
A Green Corridor has also been channelled for a fast movement of the Oxygen Express trains, the railways said.
The trains are being run from steel plants that produce oxygen to different parts of the country.
The first Oxygen Express train was run on April 19, when empty tankers began their journey from Mumbai to be loaded with LMO from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, railway sources said.
SR readies its first ‘Oxygen Express’ for the state of TN
Southern Railway readies its first empty Oxygen Express from Tiruvallur, a suburb of Chennai on Tuesday (May 11, 2021) and likely to be dispatched around midnight.
Courtesy: Southern Railway
The Oxygen Express carrying two cyrogenic tankers mounted on MBWT type (flat type) wagons will reach Rourkela, Odisha from where the empty tankers will be filled with Oxygen and brought back to Tamil Nadu.
Indian Railways have started this initiative of running Oxygen Express on a mission mode to meet the requirement of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in the treatment of COVID affected patients in different parts of the country. As part of this initiative, Southern Railway has moved its first empty oxygen Express from Tiruvallur station at the request of the Government of Tamil Nadu.
The Zone had proactively identified the suitable station capable of handling the Oxygen Express taking into account the requirements of the State. Immediately, on receipt of the request from the State Government, the originating station as well the Green corridor to move the oxygen express was mapped till the destination station.
Green corridor refers to the path in which the Oxygen Express will be run at the optimum speed without any detention by duly ensuring green signals for its seamless transportation.
Also, as height is one of the important factors in determining the speed of the train, the green corridor is mapped taking into account various railway fixed structure and terrain like Road over bridge, Platform canopies, Overhead equipment, curves ,etc along the route till destination.
The first empty oxygen express has been readied from Tiruvallur and is expected to leave Tiruvallur by Tuesday midnight after completion of all safety formalities and will reach Rourkela in Odisha covering the distance of 1685 kms.
The route followed will be: Gudur, Bitragunta, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam, and Bhubaneswar.
The empty oxygen express is expected to reach its destination on Thursday (May 13, 2021). This Empty oxygen express comprises of 7 MBWT wagons, of which two loaded with cryogenic tankers, 2 BOM type wagons and one SLRD for the accompanying staff, according to a release from B. Guganesan, Chief Public Relations Officer.
