During the review meeting held at Maligaon on 29th December, 2018 Railway Minister Shri Piyush Goyal instructed that all trains having primary maintenance in N.F. Railway and having pantry car in their composition should immediately be converted into LHB model coaches by replacing existing ICF model as these are very long distance trains. He also instructed that allotment of coaches to N.F. Railway should be made on priority. He also emphasized that these should get converted to LHB in next 3-4 months.
Presently in N.F. Railway there are 22 long distance trains running with 43 non-LHB rakes, which have pantry car facility. The total requirement of LHB coaches for all these trains works out to 1087. Out of these, Board has...
more... already sanctioned conversion of 12505 / 06 (Northeast Express) to LHB comprising of 4 rakes. One more train has been identified for conversions to LHB i.e. train no. 15707/08 (Katihar - Amritsar Amrapali Express). This train is running with 5 rakes and will require additional 120 coaches for conversion to LHB.
It may be mentioned here that N.F. Railway runs many long distance trains which includes trains like Vivek Express, Silchar – Trivandrum Express, Tripura Sundari Express, Dibrugarh – Amritsar Express etc with ICF model coaches.