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ICF coach
🇮🇳 India ·built by Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich· Type of railway rolling stock used by Indian railways
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Gorakdham Express - AC 3 Tier: Info.wpd· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. ICF coach leaving Aluva station: 4-RAZOR 01· CC0
- 3. Red-icf-coach-indian-railways: Ravi Dwivedi· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) coach is a conventional passenger rail coach developed and manufactured by the Indian state owned Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. First manufactured in 1955, it was extensively used by the Indian Railways till the late 1990s. When the production ceased in 2018, more than 54,000 coaches had been produced including exports to other countries.
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
- Top speed is 1.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- 22.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 54,000
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- builders
- Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich
- designer
- Swiss Cars and Elevator Manufacturing Co. , Integral Coach Factory
- operators
- Indian Railways, rail transport in Angola, Bangladesh Railway, Mozambique Ports and Railways, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Philippine National Railways, Sri Lanka Railways, Taiwan railway, Tanzania Railways Corporation, Uganda Railways Corporation, Vietnam Railways, Zambia Railways
- top speed
- 140 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,676 mm Indian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2'2'
- length
- 22.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5969552, Wikipedia: ICF coach (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

