New Delhi: Indian Railways is ready to roll out its much anticipated indigenously built semi-high speed train for inter-city travel Codenamed Train 18 on October 29.

ICF General Manager S. Mani told news agency IANS that Railways is planning to reveal the train on Oct 29.He said the train had undertaken test runs in two/three sectors for about two months and on satisfactory results, would be introduced into passenger service.

Here are some special features -

-The self-propelled train Train 18 would run at a speed of 160 kmph. It will ultimately replace Shatabdi Express trains on the Indian Railways network.

-Train 18, a 100 perent 'Make in India' project will be built at ICF (Integral Coach Factory) in Chennai. The Rs 100 crore engineless Train 18 will have a stainless steel car body with LHB as the base design.

- The fully air-conditioned train will have 16 chair-car type coaches out of which two will be executive chair cars and 14 non-executive chair cars.

-The executive chair can seat 56 passengers, while the non executive chairs will be able to accommodate 78 passengers.

-The train with a Swanky interior and world-class facility has a host of passenger friendly facilities which include inter-connected fully sealed gangways, automatic doors with retractable footsteps, onboard Wi-Fi and infotainment, GPS-based passenger information system, modular toilets with bio-vacuum systems, halogen free rubber-on-rubber flooring, rotational seats which can be associated in the direction of travel, roller blinds and diffused LED lighting, and disabled-friendly toilets.