The government today informed that more than 42 thousand Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) railway coaches have been manufactured in the last 11 years. This underlines an eighteen-fold increase with only two thousand three hundred coaches produced from 2004 to 2014. The LHB coaches are designed to provide improved safety, enhanced riding comfort and better operational performance for passengers.

The Ministry of Railways informed that a total of more than four thousand two hundred LHB coaches have been manufactured during the current financial year up to November. The Ministry added that this represents an 18 percent increase in the number of coaches produced during the same period of the previous year, with nearly three thousand six hundred coaches.