Engineers from Pakistan Railways and China's CRCC Tangshan company pose for a photo in a train coach imported from China in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Jan. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Jiang Chao)
Pakistan acquired the coaches from China through a transparent bidding process. From the contract to acquire 230 coaches, 46 arrived in Pakistan at the end of last November, while the remaining will be manufactured in Pakistan with China's support.
by Misbah Saba Malik, Jiang Chao
LAHORE, Pakistan, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Muhammad Naeem was busy checking brand new train coaches with Chinese engineer Lei Song in Pakistan's east Lahore province on a chilly winter evening, ahead of their formal induction in Pakistan Railways for commercial use.
The coaches imported from China were recently parked at Lahore after completing their trial run during which they not only impressed the officials who saw them for the first time, but also Naeem and his colleagues who visited China in September last year to receive training about the coaches' maintenance.
"The coaches can run at the speed limit of 160 km per hour, and are specially designed to provide very comfortable travel to passengers," the 55-year-old Head Train Examiner of Washing Line in Pakistan Railways told Xinhua, adding that he will do his best to ensure safety and maintain the standard of the coaches, together with Chinese engineers who came to Lahore to work with them.
Many functions of the coaches are new to Pakistani engineers and...
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