Pakistan Railways Striving Hard To Improve Basic Amenities In Trains, Coaches, Platforms

Pakistan Railways is striving hard to improve the basic amenities such as the train lighting, ensuring watering, toiletries and cleanliness of the coaches and platforms to provide best facilities to the passengers

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Apr, 2019 ) :Pakistan Railways is striving hard to improve the basic amenities such as the train lighting, ensuring watering, toiletries and cleanliness of the coaches and platforms to provide best facilities to the passengers.

"Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) has been devised for cleanliness of trains and stations by the Headquarters office to ensure clean and green Pakistan," an official in the Ministry of Railways told APP.

He said that pace of refurbishment of coaches has been enhanced to provide better travelling facilities to the travelling public. Policy for indigenization of manufacturing of coaches at Carriage Factory, Islamabad is vigorously being pursued, he added.

The official said that 15 New Power Vans (300 KVA) has been introduced to ensure uninterrupted supply to the coaches, adding that special and dedicated focus on the punctuality of trains had been made to save the valuable time of the passengers.

To a question, he said that Pakistan Railways would shortly launch another non-stop VVIP train with modern facilities in the near future by the name of Sir Syed Express.

He said that it is a fact that Railway Track from Peshawar to Torkham Border is not in use mainly due to the fact that track was damaged in the flash floods during 2007.

A proposal was under consideration and negotiations are being made with tourism department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to revive the track for running of tourist train, he said.

He said that feasibility study will be examined and on arrangement of mode of financing through different options in consultation with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tourism department, the project will be executed.