HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, April 6: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has set up state-of-the-art laundry care centres in Guwahati, Katihar and Alipurduar in a bid to meet the escalating requirements of linens and provide quality service to passengers.
The laundry at Guwahati has a production capacity of 16,000 bedroll packets per day. Similarly, Katihar and Alipurduar have a production capacity of 2,000 and 2,100 bedroll packets per day respectively. This will cater to the growing linen requirements of Guwahati based trains like Amarnath Express, Lokmanya Tilak Express, Avadh Assam Express etc. and Kamakhya based trains like Northeast Express, Brahmaputra Mail etc.
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Similarly, the laundry care centres will also cater to Alipurduar based train like Sikkim Mahananda Express and Katihar based trains like Amrapali Express, Champaran Humsafar Express etc.
The state-of-the-art laundry centre in Guwahati is a tunnel-based system, which has numerous features, including the capability to handle large volumes of linen while optimising usage of water, power, steam and chemicals along with automatic transfer to subsequent stages.
During the washing process, firstly soiled linens are weighed and fed to the automatic conveyor of the machine. After that, by computerised operations the linens are loaded in a tunnel batch washer for thorough washing and cleaning. Robotic feeding is used to transfer the washed linens from washer to dryer. Next water is extracted by way of a pressing system, which is equipped with a hydraulic press to facilitate maximum water extraction.
Later the washed linens are unloaded in a shuttle conveyor and dried through industrial dryers. Later, these linens are ironed in ironing system machine which automatically fold the linen after completion. Whiteness meter is used for checking the standards of linens to ensure that the best quality of bedrolls is provided to passengers. After completion of the washing process the linen sets are packed in bags for supply to their respective trains.
NFR is committed to provide clean and hygienic bedrolls to the passengers and setting up such mechanised laundry is an effort in this direction. It is also planning to set up such mechanised laundry in other locations under its jurisdiction as per the necessity.
