Hydrogen train.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the country's first hydrogen train on Friday. This train will run between Jind railway station in Haryana to Sonipat. Its name is Namo Green Rail. The special thing is that this train will run without diesel and without electricity, that is, Indian Railways is now coming out of the era of smoke and pollution and moving towards becoming completely green. With this, India has joined the list of those few countries which have the technology of hydrogen train.
Before India, only countries like America, Germany and China are included in this list, where such trains are already running keeping green energy in mind, but the train running in India is very special compared to the hydrogen train of these countries and it is being considered a big achievement, because hydrogen Running a train on gas is not a common technology. This is a very difficult task.
Regarding the inauguration of the hydrogen train, PM Modi wrote on the social site India will become one of the few countries to have such trains. This will go a long way in ensuring that India adopts clean technology in the railway sector.
From Jind tomorrow, India's first hydrogen-powered train will be flagged off, which will connect Jind and Sonipat. India becomes one of the select group of nations that have such trains. This will go a long way in ensuring that India adopts clean technology in the railway sector.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 16, 2026
Let us find out how the hydrogen train will run on the tracks without electricity and diesel engine.
- Specially prepared high-pressure cylinders have been installed in this train, in which hydrogen gas is stored with complete safety.
- This hydrogen gas is mixed with oxygen inside a 'fuel cell'.
- When hydrogen and oxygen react with each other, a huge amount of electricity is generated instantly.
- This electricity is sent to the electric traction motors installed below the train, due to which the wheels rotate and the train gets speed.
- Advanced lithium-ion battery has also been installed in this train. Extra electricity is stored in this battery.
- Which gives extra power to the engine at the time of climbing or at the initial speed of the train.
- Not a single drop of diesel is burnt in this entire process. Nor does poisonous smoke come out. Only pure water steam comes out.
1 MW green hydrogen plant in Jind
For this, a 1 MW green hydrogen plant has been built in Jind itself, which will produce pure green hydrogen by splitting water. It has the capacity to store 3000 kg hydrogen. This train will carry a total of 440 kg of compressed hydrogen gas in 27 cylinders. Once the entire tank is filled, this train can travel a distance of about 250 kilometers.
Hydrogen gas is very flammable. Therefore, special hydrogen leak detectors and flame detectors have been installed throughout the train and refilling stations.
How is hydrogen train different from other countries?
In other countries, such hydrogen trains generally have only 2 to 4 coaches and run on narrow gauge tracks, but the power, capacity and features of India's indigenous hydrogen train are much better than these.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav had said about this That Hydrogen train, there are only 4 countries which have developed it, in the countries which have developed it, the capacity of hydrogen train is 500-600 horse power. In India, we took this as a challenge and using our engineers and talent, we have successfully developed a 1200 horse power hydrogen train. This is the highest capacity hydrogen train in the world at present.
- To give speed to this train, two very powerful power cars i.e. engines have been installed at the front and rear.
- Which produces a power of 3200 horsepower.
- This train generates total power of 2400 kilowatts.
- If we talk about passenger capacity, 8 passenger coaches have been added to it.
- In which there are 628 seats…and 2600 passengers can travel comfortably.
- This train will cover a distance of about 90 kilometers between Jind and Sonipat in Haryana.
First train starting from Haryana
It will take about two hours to cover this distance. The maximum speed of the train during the trial was 120 kilometers per hour, but for operation its speed has been fixed at 75 kilometers per hour.
The country's first hydrogen train is starting from Haryana, but in future there are plans to use it in hilly areas. Under the 'Hydrogen for Heritage' project of Indian Railways, there is a plan to make the hill railway routes pollution free.
Under this project, a total of 35 hydrogen trains have been planned to run on Kalka-Shimla route. The 96 km long track between Shimla and Kalka is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The diesel 'toy trains' currently running on this route are gradually being replaced by hydrogen trains.
Apart from Kalka-Shimla, famous hill routes like Matheran Hill Railway, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, and Nilgiri Mountain Railway are also included in the next phases of this project.
Bureau Report, TV9 Bharatvarsh
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