According to images shared by a Journalist, the Train 18 got vandalised by pelters in its trial run on the Agra-Delhi stretch. Meanwhile, the train also touched the mark of 180 kmph!
Shame! India’s first train set Train 18 vandalised by unknown stone pelters between Agra-Delhi on trial run. pic.twitter.com/1aY1H2kQLZ
— Rajendra B. Aklekar (@rajtoday) December 20, 2018
Train 18 running at 180 km/h bet Delhi and Agra at this time…Srinivas, the Chief Design Enginner of ICF is in the cab, they touched 181 kmh for record sake ?…some vandal threw a stone breaking a glass, hope we nab him. pic.twitter.com/YXpqUS6qqC
— ManiSudhanshu (@ManiSudhanshu58) December 20, 2018
Another Twitter user, ManiSudhanshu also shared the image of the broken window pane.
India’s first engineless train, T-18, was rolled out on the 29th of October. The train is the production of the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. The self-propelled train is said to have cost around Rs 100 crores.
The train is likely to be flagged off on December 29 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Delhi-Varanasi stretch.
In 2017, in the then newly launched Tejas Express, the passengers had apparently stolen headphones and broken media screens. The train had started to run between Mumbai CST and Karmali.
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