The railway station in Samba district will soon have a freight terminal, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, having the capacity to move 6,000 to 9,000 metric tonnes of goods per day, officials said on Saturday. The team led by Chief Transport Planning Manager (CTPM), Railways, Devendra Singh visited the Samba station in Rakh Amb Tali on Saturday and took inventory of the current facilities, the official spokesperson said. He said that the team evaluated the need for infrastructure to run a freight terminal to facilitate simple and cheaper transport of commercial products, raw materials and finished products for the advantage of traders and industrialists.Singh was accompanied by Director, Industries and Commerce, Jammu, Anoo Malhotra, Chief Engineer, Northern Railway, Vinod Tripathi and several other senior railway officers, the spokesman said.
Initially, the terminal would have the capacity to handle the movement of two to five cargo trains per day in and out, the spokesman said, adding the cargo trains would be ordinary goods trains, container trains or automobile trade trains, having the capacity to move 6,000 to 9,000 metric tonnes of goods per day.
