Overview
- The Railway Board issued formal sanction for a 10‑car hydrogen fuel‑cell trainset in a May 22 letter and cleared pilot commercial operation on the Jind–Sonipat section at up to 75 km/h.
- Engineers completed high‑speed validation runs that reached 120 km/h on Friday as part of tests of emergency braking, oscillation and other safety parameters.
- The train was designed by RDSO and built by ICF as a 10‑coach formation with two 1,200 kW driving power cars (2,400 kW total) and onboard hydrogen storage and battery systems.
- A dedicated hydrogen production, storage and refuelling plant has been built at Jind with PESO licences for compressed hydrogen and safety systems such as leak and flame detectors across the train and site.
- Commercial limits, single‑refuel range of roughly 250 km and pending regulatory and operational formalities mean the project will first serve niche or hard‑to‑electrify routes while India tests scaling, costs and durability.