India's first LNG-powered train flagged off at Sabarmati along with railway projects worth over ₹1,500 crore

27 September 2026

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel flagged off the country's first LNG-powered train at Sabarmati station on 27 September 2026.
Railway development projects worth over 1,500 crore rupees were taken up at the same event.
The WAG-12 locomotive maintenance shed and automatic signalling systems were inaugurated, and the foundation was laid for the indigenous Kavach safety system.
Annual diesel consumption by the railways has come down from 293 crore litres to 108 crore litres.
Railway electrification has risen from 75 kilometres a year in 2010-11 to about 7,188 kilometres a year, and 99.6 per cent of the network has been electrified.