Bhubaneswar, April 29: Since the first Oxygen Express with empty tankers left from Mumbai on April 19 for Visakhapatnam under East Coast Railway (ECoR) jurisdiction, Indian Railways has consistently carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) towards different destinations of the country, said an official release.
Continuing the momentum, there are two more trains from East Coast Railways, carrying Liquid Oxygen or on the way to the loading plants. It is expected that cumulative liquid medical oxygen (LMO) carried by Indian railways will reach almost 640 MT in next 24 hours, according to an ECoR statement.
Two empty LMO tankers unloaded from cargo flight today has been moved to Angul from where this will be loaded on train to load oxygen from the Steel Plant, tonight and thereafter to proceed towards Haryana. Haryana will receive its first oxygen express as the train with two tankers is expected to leave Angul today, it said.
Telangana Government has also requested Indian Railways for Oxygen express. An empty rake is on its way from Secunderabad to Angul via Raipur with five empty tankers and is expected to reach Angul tomorrow.
Liquid Oxygen being a cryogenic cargo has many limitations like maximum speed at which it can be carried, maximum acceleration and deceleration and loading restrictions like availability of liquid oxygen tankers and loading ramps etc. Route mapping also takes care of the maximum clearances available along the route (because of various RUBs and FOBs).
The ECoR has taken all precautions for safe running of Oxygen Special Trains from it’s jurisdiction and will send these train at the earliest.
Railways is in full preparedness for providing oxygen transportation services to all the states in need. In the ongoing operation, States provide tankers to the Railways. Railways then proceeds in fastest feasible mode to bring the Oxygen supplies from the locations and delivers it the requisitioning State. The deployment and use of this Oxygen is done by the State Government.
Indian Railways Oxygen Express continues transporting life-saving Oxygen on mission mode. Oxygen Express Operations of Indian Railways continues to bring relief to the States as its operations expanded to the States of Haryana and Telangana after Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi.
