The first tanker train carrying seven tankers filled with liquid medical oxygen (LMO) from Visakhapatnam reached Maharashtra last night. The entire journey took just 50 hours. While it arrived at Nagpur at 8.10 pm on Friday, it reached Nashik on Saturday morning. The train, being volatile, needed to be planned and executed carefully, said authorities.

“The railways took the movement of ‘Oxygen Express’ as a challenge and successfully ran the first one from Kalamboli to Vizag and back to Nashik. The ramps were ready overnight at Kalamboli. These were required to transport tankers from the road onto the wagons,” chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar told mid-day.