Covid-19 impact: Southern Railway units start making sanitisers, masks

Development follows a directive by Railway Board to production units and workshops to use their manufacturing units to make essential medical items

Southern Railway has started making hand sanitisers, masks and aprons to take on the Coronavirus pandemic. It may be noted, that the ICF Factory in Chennai already started manufacturing ventilators.

Southern Railway has electric locomotive sheds at Erode and Arakkonam and a diesel shed at Ernakulam in Kerala. It also has the Perambur Locomotive Works and Perambur Carriage & Wagon Works in Chennai and Golden Rock Workshop in Trichy.