New Delhi, Jun 13 (UNI) The Ministry of Railways on Sunday said Oxygen Express trains have delivered more than 30,000 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) within the country.
According to the Ministry, the task of delivering nearly 30,182 MT of LMO in more than 1,734 tankers was completed by 421 Oxygen Express trains.
The most crucial life-saving trains started their deliveries 50 days back on April 24 in Maharashtra with a load of 126 MT.
Till now, 614 MT of Oxygen has been offloaded in Maharashtra, nearly 3797 MT in Uttar Pradesh, 656 MT in Madhya Pradesh, 5722 MT in Delhi, 2354 MT in Haryana, 98 MT in Rajasthan, 3782 MT in Karnataka, 320 MT in Uttarakhand, 4941 MT in Tamil Nadu, 3664 MT in Andhra Pradesh, 225 MT in Punjab, 513 MT in Kerala, 2972 MT in Telangana, 38 MT in Jharkhand and 480 MT in Assam.
The average speed of these critical freight trains is way above 55 KMPH in most cases over long distances. Running on high priority Green Corridor, with the highest sense of urgency, operational teams of various zones are working round the clock in the most challenging circumstances to ensure that Oxygen reaches in the fastest possible time frame.
Technical stoppages have been reduced to 1 minute for crew changes over different sections.
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