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Travellers are set to have an opportunity to experience Vietnam’s beauty on trains with steam locomotives.

The railway sector will have to face huge financial pressure if it replaces expired locomotives and carriages.

The Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) has asked the Ministry of Transport to propose Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc extend the expiry for locomotives and carriages by three years.

By teaming up with a foreign partner and stepping up the mechanical work, the railway sector will build hundreds of high-quality carriages.

State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) Persero is working with private logistic railway service firms Servo Railway and Progress Rail for designing locomotives run on B100 biodiesel.

Vietnam Railways (VNR) is attempting to replace more than 1,000 train locomotives and coaches, but experts said the money would be better spent elsewhere.

The first set of rail tracks and sleepers were installed on October 24 on the above-ground stretch of HCM City’s first metro line from Ben Thanh Market to Suoi Tien Theme Park.

Two historic steam locomotives that were repatriated to Switzerland from Da Lat in 1990 became part of the European country’s celebration of the restored Furka Pass rack railway last week.