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Indian Railways' 24-coach cap

If other countries can have passenger trains with 40 or even 50 coaches, what is the constraint for the IR here?

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Bibek Debroy
I don’t know how many people are familiar with the name of Harindhar Reddy as a poet. I like his poems.  There is one titled The lonely train on the lonely track with 24 coaches painted black, with the line occurring as a refrain at the end of every paragraph. There is also site called 24coaches.com. It is a wonderful source of information about IR (Indian Railways) and is run by an unnamed railway fan. In either case, we have a coach number of 24.

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