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- 1. Amrit Bharat trainset: Sagar Agarwal (uncle)· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Amrit Bharat is an Indian push-pull train, designed and developed by Indian Railways at its Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. It has non-air-conditioned three-tier sleeper and unreserved coaches.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 3 years ago, in 2023.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 23.5 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 1,834: 37 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2023
- in service from
- 2023
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Push-pull train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Coaches: ICF Chennai
- designer
- RDSO, ICF
- operators
- Indian Railways
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- electric system
- via overhead line
- formation
- 2 locomotives and 22 coaches (Push-pull configuration)
- length
- 23.5 m
- weight
- 39.5 t
- capacity
- 1,834 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q123428571, Wikipedia: Amrit Bharat (trainset) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.