Oxygen train helps combat Covid-19
Indian Railway is running “Oxygen Express” trains to support the fight against Covid-19. Oxygen Expresses with Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) tankers have already arrived at Nashik & at Lucknow for the states of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, respectively. A few containers were also unloaded at Nagpur and Varanasi en route to supply LMO in these regions.
A third Oxygen Express started its journey from Lucknow on Saturday morning, 25 April 2021, the Indian government said.
To fulfil the needs for medical oxygen in Uttar Pradesh, a green corridor was created between Lucknow to Varanasi to speed up the train journey. The distance of 270 km was covered by the train in 4 hours 20 minutes with an average speed of 62.35 km/h. A total of ten containers having nearly 150 t of oxygen have been carried so far. (ben)