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Indian Railway Ministry never tires of introducing new and cool features to the lifeline of India.

In a highly anticipated move, the Indian Railways’ new AC-III tier compartment will come loaded with features like CCTV cameras in the aisles, a GPS-based passenger information system and tea and coffee vending machines in the coaches.

New AC-III tier train coaches to have GPS, coffee-machine and CCTVhttps://t.co/8CvDEfh3Gr pic.twitter.com/129O1pRlrs — Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) November 3, 2016

The Indian Express has reported that these new coaches will be deployed on the all-AC-III tier Humsafar service mid-November. Humsafar is tentatively scheduled to run between Delhi and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The new coaches designed by the Rail Coach Factory in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh will be part of four trains as of now.

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Apart from these, the coaches will also boast of the following super cool features:

A GPS-based passenger information system above each door

A fire-and-smoke detector

Automatic room-freshener dispensers

Replacing the current steel number plates with a light bar similar to the one used by airlines with numbers indicating upper, lower and middle berths

New gel-coated toilet walls to save the toilets from unwanted graffiti

Curtains for side berths and in the aisles

New interior and exterior colour schemes

Disabled-friendly coaches with integrated Braille displays

“Earlier, the thinking was that extra or new features could be added only in higher classes. But this is reimagining an existing class, without giving it a luxury tag,” a senior rail ministry official told The Indian Express.

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Featured image credit: Anas Khan, via Wikimedia Commons, The Indian Express

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