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Indian Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal inaugurates the track maintenance machines. Credit: Press Information Bureau Government of India. Indian Railways has inducted five new track maintenance ...

This machine replaces railway ties, all without having to remove any of the railway track. Railroad tracks are made of three parts: the long steel rails that the trains run on, railway ties and track ...

More than 25,000 trains run across India every day. They carry more than 20 million passengers daily and move large ...