Bangladesh Railway to add 200 coaches soon

[bluesky]

Bangladesh Railway to add 200 coaches soon
Published: November 04, 2018 21:23:00

Bangladesh Railway on Sunday signed an agreement with a Chinese company to procure 200 metre gauge passenger coaches involving Tk 9.28 billion.

Project director Mrinal Kanti Bonik and vice president of CRRC Company Chen Jianpeng signed the deal at Rail Bhaban in presence of Railways Minister Md Mujibul Haque, reports UNB citing a PID handout.

Following the deal, the company concerned will provide the coaches within 20 to 27 months.

This government has already added 270 rail coaches to the fleet of Bangladesh Railway during its current tenure while 200 meter gauge passenger coaches and more 50 broad gauge coaches will start arriving from Indonesia at the year-end, said the Railways Minister.

Railways secretary Md Mofazzal Hossain, Director General Kazi Md Rafiqul Alam, among others, were present.

 

[bluesky]

This government has already added 270 rail coaches to the fleet of Bangladesh Railway during its current tenure while 200 meter gauge passenger coaches and more 50 broad gauge coaches will start arriving from Indonesia at the year-end, said the Railways Minister.

We all should take pride in this achievement of taking foreign loans to buy the coaches from foreign sources while the authority does not take a single step to build the coaches or assemble them in the country.

After all, people in Bangladesh regard themselves as Sonar Bangali. They should not be allowed to dirty their gold-color hands by doing all these small mechanical things. Yet, the govt is so loud in talking about progress.

What a shit!! Force the poor women to work in the sweatshops at the lowest of wages, earn dollars, buy foreign goods and take your big commission. Yes, this is progress BD style. The Japanese and Koreans should have learned this solemn method from BD 200 years ago. Mir Zafars are born in this society every generation and every decade.

@UKBengali, accept my congratulations for such an accomplishment of your BAL govt.

 

[fallstuff]

Coach factories in India are capable of making 1000-1600 coaches a year. Bangladesh buys only 100 on average a year.

If the domestic demand is not enough to absorb the output, whats the point of a factory when per unit coach cost will go through the roof to recover certain fixed costs.

 

[HariPrasad]

This is nice. Add those special technology coaches which protects travelers in case of crashes.

 

[bluesky]

Coach factories in India are capable of making 1000-1600 coaches a year. Bangladesh buys only 100 on average a year.

If the domestic demand is not enough to absorb the output, whats the point of a factory when per unit coach cost will go through the roof to recover certain fixed costs.

Are you a born mentally handicapped? Who asked to buy a million coaches? Point is BD has no ambition or planning yet to manufacture or assemble such coaches. It keeps on buying shamelessly from India, China, Malaysia, and India while millions of its own people remain underemployed or unemployed. Add these together and then come back to talk, stupid. Do you think the coaches are like underwears and there should be a million output every year? Your kind of bad stupids is at the top of govt. No wonder, BD is in such a shamble.

 

[GHALIB]

Are you a born mentally handicapped? Who asked to buy a million coaches? Point is BD has no ambition or planning yet to manufacture or assemble such coaches. It keeps on buying shamelessly from India, China, Malaysia, and India while millions of its own people remain underemployed or unemployed. Add these together and then come back to talk, stupid. Do you think the coaches are like underwears and there should be a million output every year? Your kind of bad stupids is at the top of govt. No wonder, BD is in such a shamble.

yes BD should plan it's own coach factories .

 

[fallstuff]

Are you a born mentally handicapped? Who asked to buy a million coaches? Point is BD has no ambition or planning yet to manufacture or assemble such coaches. It keeps on buying shamelessly from India, China, Malaysia, and India while millions of its own people remain underemployed or unemployed. Add these together and then come back to talk, stupid. Do you think the coaches are like underwears and there should be a million output every year? Your kind of bad stupids is at the top of govt. No wonder, BD is in such a shamble.

Post reported for personal attack and ranting like a crazy person.
This is my last and only reply to you.
Once again what is the business case ?

Just like a typical Indian you don't get the bigger picture. An Indian manufacturer charges 1.5 crore rupee for a single train coach, a whole lot of fixed cost are factored in it. For example, factory rent, employee salary, factory setup cost, production line setup cost, and what not. Your factory will have to remain open even when there is no order.
Indian manufacturer are in many cases legacy manufacturers predating Indian independence.

A nation that can build and export ships, can certainly build licensed train coaches, but the point is BD will only build when there is a market for it. This is not a d**k measuring contest.

Now slither back under the rock you came out from.

 

[gslv mk3]

Indian manufacturer are in many cases legacy manufacturers predating Indian independence.

All coach/locomotive factories in operational todayin India were set up after independence. British policies did not allow for any significant localization to protect British rolling stock industry.

 

[Indos]

It looks like Indonesian company competes with China company to supply train to Bangladesh. Last July Indonesia get contract to manufacture 250 train cars to Bangladesh. At home INKA also has contract to produce 438 train cars for Indonesian rail company. It also has contract to supply some train and train cars to Philippine. I think it is because of INKA has been in full capacity so that it cannot take this new contract.

INKA has supply train and train cars to Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Thailand and Philippine.

Are you a born mentally handicapped? Who asked to buy a million coaches? Point is BD has no ambition or planning yet to manufacture or assemble such coaches. It keeps on buying shamelessly from India, China, Malaysia, and India while millions of its own people remain underemployed or unemployed. Add these together and then come back to talk, stupid. Do you think the coaches are like underwears and there should be a million output every year? Your kind of bad stupids is at the top of govt. No wonder, BD is in such a shamble.

As far as I know train maker in Malaysia is a Chinese one. They set up a train maker companies in Malaysia to compete with Indonesia for ASEAN market.
http://www.mida.gov.my/home/3286/ne...ansion-to-asean-market-from-base-in-malaysia/

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

We all should take pride in this achievement of taking foreign loans to buy the coaches from foreign sources while the authority does not take a single step to build the coaches or assemble them in the country.

After all, people in Bangladesh regard themselves as Sonar Bangali. They should not be allowed to dirty their gold-color hands by doing all these small mechanical things. Yet, the govt is so loud in talking about progress.

What a shit!! Force the poor women to work in the sweatshops at the lowest of wages, earn dollars, buy foreign goods and take your big commission. Yes, this is progress BD style. The Japanese and Koreans should have learned this solemn method from BD 200 years ago. Mir Zafars are born in this society every generation and every decade.

@UKBengali, accept my congratulations for such an accomplishment of your BAL govt.

Why so sceptic? Its a good development for BD people, though like in all other deals i suspect corruption in this deal as well. But the end result its some development for people.

 

[Bilal9]

Coach factories in India are capable of making 1000-1600 coaches a year. Bangladesh buys only 100 on average a year.

If the domestic demand is not enough to absorb the output, whats the point of a factory when per unit coach cost will go through the roof to recover certain fixed costs.

Well India sets up coach factories for India's demand and scale.

You can set up coach factories at a much smaller scale and in reduced automation style, which can still be profitable. Or for govt. factories - self supporting.

I cannot fathom that even 47 years after independence, we haven't even explored this investment option, even on a limited assembly basis.

Also - these same factories can make metro rakes, for which there are urgent needs across the country.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

Post reported for personal attack and ranting like a crazy person.
This is my last and only reply to you.
Once again what is the business case ?

Just like a typical Indian you don't get the bigger picture. An Indian manufacturer charges 1.5 crore rupee for a single train coach, a whole lot of fixed cost are factored in it. For example, factory rent, employee salary, factory setup cost, production line setup cost, and what not. Your factory will have to remain open even when there is no order.
Indian manufacturer are in many cases legacy manufacturers predating Indian independence.

A nation that can build and export ships, can certainly build licensed train coaches, but the point is BD will only build when there is a market for it. This is not a d**k measuring contest.

Now slither back under the rock you came out from.

Indian coaches are the best in Sub continental situations where the climate is same. The coaches coming out of ICF factories in last 5-6 years have been top notch in technology and Train 18 & 20 are taking us to next level. The Chinese sets are designed in their local conditions and not suitable for our continental regions like the Pakistanis found the hard way. Their CHinese engines seized and was left unused for years.
And most of the engine and coach factories were set after independence. Our meter gauge and broad gauge lengths are the same with the same platform height being inheritors from the British.

 

[Bilal9]

Indian coaches are the best in Sub continental situations where the climate is same. The coaches coming out of ICF factories in last 5-6 years have been top notch in technology and Train 18 & 20 are taking us to next level. The Chinese sets are designed in their local conditions and not suitable for our continental regions like the Pakistanis found the hard way. Their CHinese engines seized and was left unused for years.
And most of the engine and coach factories were set after independence. Our meter gauge and broad gauge lengths are the same with the same platform height being inheritors from the British.

ICF Kapurthala in Punjab is using LHB's design which was a European design not really suited to Indian conditions initially.

But 'subcontinental situation' cannot be an excuse to use old inefficient coach designs. New high speed LHB truck designs for those coaches are necessary for the increased speeds necessitated by newer American engines now being assembled in India.

Improvements in track speed and bogie/truck designs under coaches will keep happening worldwide, and they are not any more expensive or more complicated to make.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

ICF Kapurthala in Punjab is using LHB's design which was a European design not really suited to Indian conditions initially.

But 'subcontinental situation' cannot be an excuse to use old inefficient coach designs. New high speed LHB truck designs for those coaches are necessary for the increased speeds necessitated by newer American engines now being assembled in India.

Improvements in track speed and bogie/truck designs under coaches will keep happening worldwide, and they are not any more expensive or more complicated to make.

https://www.financialexpress.com/in...th-sleeper-class-to-replace-rajdhani/1369972/

Just have a read on the latest design to come out of ICF. And Aluminium LHB coaches have replaced European Steel coaches for long. We have luxury, double decker coaches, Electric EMU coaches made at EMU. If BD likes it, then should have a deal with one of the ICF to establish a factory in BD provided BD railways expand at a rapid pace.

 

[Ryuzaki]

TBH,adding 200 coaches to the railway network shouldn't be a big news