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IN Coach ICF

The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) coach is a design of passenger coach manufactured in India between 1955 and 2018. During this 63 year period, 54,000 ICF coaches were manufactured and used throughout India, alongside 601 coaches exported to a range of countries in Asia and Africa. The design originated with the Swiss Car & Elevator Manufacturing Co in 1949, and provided a standard design of coaches with steel bodies and air brakes, to replace earlier vacuum braked wooden coaches.

The final ICF coach was constructed in 2018. ICF rakes are steadily being phased out as new LHB rakes become available, with full replacement planned by 2030.

Throughout this description, the spelling "come" is used in phrases such as "Seating come Luggage" to avoid Steam's auto-censoring!



The ICF fleet has seen three standard liveries. The Brick Red livery was adopted on introduction and remained in use until the 1990s, when the Blue livery was adopted. In 2018, the "Utkrisht" refurbishment programme was introduced for ICF coaches, with modernised rolling stock receiving a beige livery.


Indian Railways operates a large variety of seating arrangements and passenger classes. In addition, many trains include sleeping accommodation due to the long distances covered. The passenger classes tend to have two different codes: a two-character code denoting the class, and a (usually) single character code used as part of the coach number. For example, a ticket for AC 3 Tier (3A / B) sleeping accommodation will have seating code 3A, and will be in coaches B1, B2, B3, ... of the train.

Sleeping accomodation available on ICF coaches is divided into:

• First AC (1A / H)
  
• AC 2 Tier (2A / A)
  
• AC 3 Tier (3A / B)
  
• Sleeper 3 Tier (S)

Reserved seating accomodation available on ICF coaches is divided into:

• First Chair (EC / E)
  
• AC Chair (CC / C)
  
• Second Sitting (2S / D)

Unreserved seating is denoted General Sitting or Unreserved, variously described as GEN, GN, GS, or UR.


Coaches are arranged in fixed rakes which are scheduled to run a repeating sequence of trains (a "rake link"). Rakes are almost always arranged with a guard's van at each end. Guard's vans provide luggage space and seating for differently abled passengers ("Divyangjan").


Passenger capacities in this mod are set depending on whether the coach has reserved seating or berths. For all coaches other than Second/General Sitting, reservations are required, and the capacity is set to the reserved capacity. Second/General Sitting coaches come with Reserved and Unreserved (200% capacity) versions for the player to choose between. Crew berths in Pantry coaches and Guard's vans are excluded from passenger capacity.



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