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Trolley trial run conducted at Agartala-Kumarghat BG railway track
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Trolley trial run conducted at Agartala-Kumarghat BG railway track
PHOTO : NFR officials inaugurates the trial run of trolley on the BG track at Agartala Railway station. TIWN Pic Oct 13

AGARTALA, Oct 13 (TIWN): Yet in another historic moment for the landlocked Tripura, the trial run for the trolley on the 109 km of Agartala – Kumarghat Broad gauge (BG) railway track has kicked off on Tuesday morning at 8.30 at the Agartala railway station in presence of NFR officials. Inaugurating the BG railway track on Tuesday morning, a two team of NFR official has kicked off the journey on the BG track in the trolley trial run and has gone for inspection of the track.NFR CEO S.I. Garud has inaugurated the BG railway track and offered prayers by hitting coconut as a sign of good will and safe journey. The trial run of the motor trolley run was conducted on the newly converted BG track between Agartala to Kumarghat to check the stability of the track and to begin the journey of the goods trains in the track. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), NFR S I Garud and Chief Engineer and NFR Harpal Singh remained present in the motor trolley trial run.The trolley will run till Teliamura and will give a stop at Teliamura as the track is not yet completed at Teliamura due to some land acquisition trouble by the localites.Yet in another major success to the state, a total of conversion of 109 km of rail track from Meter Gauge (MG) to Broad Gauge (BG) for the Agartala – Kumarghat railway track is completed and is now ready to run the goods train in the track. In a major achievement, the engineers and workers with their best effort has converted 109 km rail track from Meter Gauge (MG) to Broad Gauge (BG) for Kumarghat to Agartala track successfully. The rail track between Kumarghat to Agartala is now ready to run goods train.As per the schedule, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) undertook the BG conversion work just two month back and the conversion of track for the Agartala-Kumarghat track is already complete.

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