How does this prove anything? Infact it supports what I said before, that India has never supplied railways coaches to Bangladesh , and that this is the very first time. So now we know that @Khan saheb was bullshitting about Indian coaches being relegated down from " first line service".
The reason you ll see Indonesian coaches preferred on the so called "first line service" is because this is a meter gauge line and India doesn't manufacture meter gauge coaches. Broad gauge lines in Bangladesh connect the western divisions of Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur with Dhaka, rest of the lines are meter gauge, so obviously Indonesian coaches are in use on these meter gauge lines.
This is unprecedented ! You cannot expect the supplier to factor in the fact that people ride on the roof of the trains and change the design accordingly, so that they don't get their head bashed in by bridges and other structures along the rail line.
RITES has signed all the contracts with BR. RITES will procure it from vendors and supply it to BR, no one said RCF had anything to do with Saidpur upgrade.
If RITES has failed to comply with the terms of the contract, then it should be penalized, that I agree with. But I won't believe it until I see the actual contract terms, Bangladeshi press, especially the Bangla ones have a habit of publishing unsubstantiated bs and anti India tirade.
For example, the bs claim of BR requirement of coach life of 80 years! The oldest coaches in BR are about 40 years old, this was mind you when Bangladesh was a low income country. Think about it 20-30 years down the line, when Bangladesh will have become an upper middle income country do you think its railway network will operate 40 year carriages , let alone 80 years old one 2050 and beyond? So anything your Bengali press publishes, its gonna be hard to buy.
That fancy graph happens to be from a report published by the Bangladesh Planning Commission. If you were me who would you believe? The figures from the highest development authority of a country or a random nincompoop on the internet.
And no they are not average speeds, they are the highest permissible speeds in various sections of the railway network.
As for me having no solid information, I agree I don't, but neither do you. You made claims that Bangladesh railway network has a design speed of 150 KMPH, that trains ply at 100KMPH on an average, that Indonesian coaches have undergone all the testings and certification, yet gave not one source to back up your claims. So unless you start backing up your claims with sources, you are just as ignorant as I am, if not more.
