Soon, experience flight-like luxury in Shatabdi trains with new ‘Anubhuti’ coaches

(Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)

The coaches are fitted with automatic doors and the interiors and lighting arrangements have been aesthetically designed to enhance the ambience.

Other prominent features of the luxury coach include designer bio-toilets, diffused lighting, better ergonomics, passenger information display in the middle of the coach and Braille integrated seat stickers.

(Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)

While the AC-1 executive class has 56 seats in Shatabdi, the new-design Anubhuti coaches with automatic opening and closing of internal doors will have about 50 seats. The fare for Anubhuti coaches will be higher than that of AC 1 executive class.

It is reported that so far, 10 such compartments have been built at the Integral Coach Factory, out of which Western and Central Railways will get two each, while the remaining six have been allotted to the Northern Railway. After Shatabdi trains, Rajdhani trains will also be fitted with such coaches.