{"id":200805,"date":"2022-08-20T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200805"},"modified":"2022-08-20T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:17:25","slug":"super-vasuki-indian-railways-3-5-km-long-train-with-six-locos-and-295-wagons-pass-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/super-vasuki-indian-railways-3-5-km-long-train-with-six-locos-and-295-wagons-pass-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Vasuki: Indian Railways\u2019 3.5-km-long train with six locos and 295 wagons pass by"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Super Vasuki: Indian Railways\u2019 3.5-km-long train with six locos and 295 wagons pass by<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Economic Times <\/b>on<b> 17th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On August 15, the Indian Railways conducted a test run of its latest train called Super Vasuki.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Super Vasuki?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Super Vasuki freight train is 3.5 km long. This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the <\/span><b>longest and heaviest freight train that the Railways have ever operated.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Named After:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The train gets its name from Vasuki, the Hindu god of serpents. Shiva&#8217;s snake, Vasuki, is portrayed as being around his neck. The snake is said to have a gem on his head called a Nagamani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The train was run by the <\/span><b>South East Central Railway(SECR).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The train was formed by amalgamating five rakes of goods trains as one unit. The train takes about four minutes to cross a station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The amount of coal carried by Super Vasuki is enough to fire 3,000 MW of power plants for one full day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This is three times the capacity of existing railway rakes (90 cars with 100 tonnes in each) that carry about 9,000 tonnes of coal in one journey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSuper Vasuki: Indian Railways\u2019 3.5-km-long train with six locos and 295 wagons pass by\u201d published in Economic Times on 17th August 2022. What is the News? On August 15, the Indian Railways conducted a test run of its latest train called Super Vasuki. What is Super Vasuki?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/super-vasuki-indian-railways-3-5-km-long-train-with-six-locos-and-295-wagons-pass-by\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Vasuki: Indian Railways\u2019 3.5-km-long train with six locos and 295 wagons pass by<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10596],"class_list":["post-200805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}