First Oxygen Express train reaches Tamil Nadu
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The railways had already delivered over 5,735 metric tonnes of medical oxygen to eight States.
The first ‘Oxygen Express’ train to Tamil Nadu carrying 4 containers of 80 metric tonnes medical oxygen departed from Durgapur,West Bengal on the evening of May 12 and arrived on the Tondiarpet container depot in Chennai early on May 14.
In a press launch, the Southern Railway stated the Oxygen Express carry cryogenic tankers mounted on flat-type wagons. The cryogenic tankers mounted on vans and full of LMO are transported by rail utilizing the Roll on and Roll off (RO-RO) technique. This RO-RO service will facilitate door-to-door supply of oxygen at hospitals as per directives of the State authorities with out having to unload from the railway wagon.
The Indian Railways has began this initiative of working Oxygen Express on a mission mode to satisfy the requirement of LMO for the remedy of COVID-19 sufferers in numerous components of the nation.
The railways has already delivered almost 5,735 metric tonnes of LMO in additional than 375 tankers to Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana.
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