Safety is the new cool and living with Coronavirus the new reality. Though lockdown was imposed to control the virus, it soon occurred to everyone that it can’t be a permanent solution and hence, in order to resume travel which is Corona safe, Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala, has rolled out a ‘Post-Covid Coach’ in order to fight the virus.
This Coach is designed keeping the nature of COVID-19 virus in mind. Various amenities have been provided in this newly designed Post COVID Coach.
Handsfree Amenities
The Coach provides handsfree amenities as a part of which foot-operated water tap and soap dispenser, foot-operated lavatory door (outside), foot-operated flush valve, foot-operated latches in lavatory door, outside washbasin with foot-operated water tap and soap dispenser and forearm operated handle on compartment door is provided which reduces the use of hands from minimum to none.
Copper Coated handrails and latches
In addition to Handsfree amenities, this post-Covid Coach has design improvements like copper-coated handrails and latches as the salient feature of copper is that it degrades the virus landed on it within few hours. Rich in anti-microbial properties, when virus lands on copper, ion blasts pathogen and destroy the DNA and RNA inside the virus.
Plasma Air Purification and Titanium Di-Oxide Coating
The coach also has the provision of plasma air purification and titanium di-oxide coating for Covid free journey. The plasma will sterilize the air and surfaces inside the AC coach using ionised air to make the coach Covid-19 and particulate matter resistant. This provision will also improve the ion concentration from 100 ions/cm3 to more than 6000 ions/cm.
We hope this will bring a sense of safety for passengers when they travel via trains, once rail travel is up and running like before. Would you travel in these post COVID trains or you would prefer road journeys, and flights? Let us know in the comments below!