Golden Rock unit to make longer container wagons
The Golden Rock Railway Workshop here will soon embark on the task of manufacturing longer container wagons of ‘BLL-A and BLL-B' type for the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), a Government of India undertaking.
The workshop had received an order from the Railway Board last month to manufacture 600 such wagons for the CONCOR.
Though the workshop has been manufacturing and supplying Bogie Low Container (BLC) wagons for the CONCOR for over three years now, this is the first time that it has bagged an order to manufacture BLL wagons. Each BLL wagon can accommodate 45-foot long containers. A BLC wagon can accommodate 40-foot long containers. Accordingly, the carrying capacity of containers in respect of BLL wagons will be slightly higher as compared to those accommodated in the BLC wagons.
The workshop had dispatched more than 3,000 BLC wagons to the CONCOR over the past few years, officials say. It has received a fresh order from the Railway Board to manufacture 360 stainless wagons with higher load during the current financial year. It dispatched over 100 stainless steel wagons during financial year 2009-10.
The workshop had received an order from the Railway Board last month to manufacture 600 such wagons for the CONCOR.
Though the workshop has been manufacturing and supplying Bogie Low Container (BLC) wagons for the CONCOR for over three years now, this is the first time that it has bagged an order to manufacture BLL wagons. Each BLL wagon can accommodate 45-foot long containers. A BLC wagon can accommodate 40-foot long containers. Accordingly, the carrying capacity of containers in respect of BLL wagons will be slightly higher as compared to those accommodated in the BLC wagons.
The workshop had dispatched more than 3,000 BLC wagons to the CONCOR over the past few years, officials say. It has received a fresh order from the Railway Board to manufacture 360 stainless wagons with higher load during the current financial year. It dispatched over 100 stainless steel wagons during financial year 2009-10.
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