South Central Railway (SCR) has not only managed to keep all the passenger trains incuding the Summer Specials running this season, but also got a record amount of coal and other goods transported in April, according to senior railway officials on Tuesday.
About 10.495 MTs of total freight loading has been done last month, which is a good 10% more than last year and this haulage has been rising consistently in the last five years from 8.08 MTs in April 2017 to 9.97 MTs in 2018, slightly low at 9.56 MTs in 2019, pandemic impact in 2020 with only 4.81 MTs which went up to 9.53 MTs in 2021.
The major share of the freight movement is coal, where 5.273 MTs was loaded registering 13.1% growth when compared to the previous year. Other major contributors to loading are cement (3.016 MTs), foodgrains (0.400 MTs), fertilizers (0.558 MTs), containers (0.185 MTs) and other goods (1.063 MTs.), they said.
