LHB coaches(Max speed 200kmph) are made of Stainless steel which makes it heavier than technologically more advanced under trial Talgo coaches (Max speed 250kmph) made up of aluminium.
A shatabdi was planned to be introduced between Mumbai & Goa on the completion of 150 years of Indian Rlys with operational speed of 150 kmph (150yrs..kmph the same figure!) and a jouney time of 6hours flat. Accordingly a speed trial was conducted. Unfortunately there was an accident in the same year on KRly,and the high speed train plan was dropped as a safety measure. LHB coaches had been tested at 179 kmph max during a trail run as claimed by the then MD Mr. Raja Ram.
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trial run which I conducted successfully between Madgaon (Goa) and Roha (near Mumbai) in 2003 averaged 150 kmph continuously over a 400 km stretch, the longest in rail history then," Rajaram recalled.
"The train slashed travel time to a mere three-and-a-half hours, from the nearly nine hours that superfast trains normally take to complete the 442-km journey.
"On a particular stretch, the General Electric-designed diesel loco effortlessly touched 179 kmph until I asked the driver to slow down," said Rajaram, who rode with the driver.
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