IR inaugurates first aluminium freight rake

India’s first aluminium freight rake 61 BOBRNALHSM1 has been inaugurated at the Bhubaneswar railway station. It has been designed and deve­loped indigenously in collaboration with the Research Designs and Stan­dar­ds Organisation, Hindalco and Besco Wagon. The key features of the aluminium rake include fully lock bolted construction with no welding on superstructure, a tare that is 3.25 tonnes lighter than normal steel rakes, 180 tonne extra carrying capacity resulting in higher throughput per wagon and higher payload to tare ratio of 2.85.