page_title: Rail transport in India
section_title: Goods wagons
hierarchical_section_title: Rail transport in India / Rolling stock / Goods wagons
caption_attribution_description: English: Captured from a running train
context_page_description: The railways are an important mode of transport in India. In 2018-19, 23.12 million passengers per day used the railway network of Indian Railways, which operates suburban and mainline rail services in india
  . Around 3.36 million metric tons of freight was also shipped daily on the IR network. Other rail operations such as metros and tram will increase above figures.
  Indian Railways is the primary operator of rail operations throughout the country, a state-owned organization of the Ministry of Railways which historically had its own government budget. Other locally-owned public corporations operate various suburban and urban railways throughout the country, such as Chennai metro and Kolkata trams. Private sector operations currently exist only for freight trains and railroads exclusively for non-passenger usage, but there has been renewed efforts in 2020 to encourage private sector involvement in running passenger trains.
  As of March 2019, the national rail network comprises 123,542 km of track over a route of 67,368 km and 7,349 stations. It is the fourth-largest national railway network in the world.
context_section_description: A new wagon numbering system was adopted in Indian Railways in 2003. Wagons are allocated 11 digits,  making it easy for identification and computerization of a wagon's information. The first two digits indicate Type of Wagon, the third and fourth digits indicate Owning Railway, the fifth and sixth digits indicate Year of Manufacture, the seventh through tenth digits indicate Individual Wagon Number, and the last digit is a Check digit.
  IR's bulk requirement of wagons is met by wagon manufacturing units both in public and private sectors as well as other Public Sector Units under the administrative control of Ministry of Railways.
caption: A covered wagon
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