15-18  Number of National Railway Passenger Coaches and Freight Cars Owned
Item	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2007	2008
Passenger Coaches              (coach)	20872	27261	32404	35989	40328	42471	43215
Soft Berth Coaches	679	1061	1537	2055	3109	3363	3472
Hard Berth Coaches	2633	4351	7607	10139	12942	13786	13975
Soft Seat Coaches	260	330	574	764	759	1611	2113
Hard Seat Coaches	13700	17503	18076	17571	16900	16748	16641
Soft and Hard Seat Coaches	114	63	35	25	2
Dining Cars	1221	1520	1695	1847	2108	2178	2185
Luggage  Cars	1498	1686	1949	2144	2480	2411	2207
Business Cars	87	77	87	69	78	82	77
Others	680	670	844	1375	1950	2292	2545
Freight Cars                   (coach)	300886	364966	432731	439943	541824	571078	584961
Grouped by Type of Car
Covered Cars	52677	66668	80437	92569	99206	102192	103449
Open Cars	185684	232999	268179	252977	343480	366767	379050
Flat Cars	18753	18726	27461	24685	30290	36336	37665
Hazardous Materials Cars		1229	1580	1578	2056	2056	2056
Tank Cars	31837	33646	37119	37778	38331	34592	33593
Refrigerator Cars	3991	5150	7030	7909	7419	7196	6588
Others	7944	6548	10925	22447	21042	21939	22560
Grouped by Capacity of Car
Under 40 Tons and Unidentified	20234	6071	3547	4159	4892	5629	5878
40 Tons	4577	5119	6929	3606	3590	3367	3115
41-49  Tons					7589	7589	7243
50 Tons	104456	92442	48287	15799	3512	3444	3728
51-59  Tons	16544	15500	27951		52565	50185	49170
60 Tons	153198	238680	342086	307521	265154	238911	218498
61-69 Tons	1571	6825	3546	103431	195911	197099	198341
70 Tons and Over	306	329	385	5427	8611	64854	98988
Total Loading Capacity of Freight	1612.5	2055.3	2502.9	2619.9	3294.5	3526.3	3644.9
Cars                    (10 000 tons)
Average Marked Loading Capacity per	53.9	56.6	57.9	59.6	60.8	61.7	62.3
Car                             (ton)