GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway has installed its first-ever Smart Automatic Coach Washing Plant (ACWP) at Kamakhya Coach Maintenance Depot in Guwahati.
The plant, having a multistage cleaning facility, was inaugurated by the General Manager of NF Railway Anshul Gupta on Wednesday, March 2.
The initiative is a big step towards commitment to water conservation, and provides an efficient and cost-effective technique for outer body cleaning with optimum utilisation of water.
The NF Railway plans to install 8 more ACWPs at Siliguri, New Jalpaiguri, Dibrugarh, Katihar, Silchar, Naharlagun, Alipurduar and Agartala.
The plant is equipped with Intelligent Control System which has an auto-start system when the train enters the ACWP. It is also capable of self-diagnosis and auto-indicates any failure in the system. Thus, the state-of-art system provides better quality of cleaning as compared to the conventional manual system of coach washing.
