# Transrail Lighting

EPC company focused on power transmission and distribution, with towers and conductors among its products. It reports a footprint in 64 countries, listed on stock exchanges in 2024 and entered solar EPC in 2025.

- Type: EPC contractor [Source 1]
- Registered office: Mumbai, India [Source 1]
- Founded: not verified
- Ownership: Listed company [Source 1]
- Website: https://www.transrail.in [Source 1]
- Legal name: Transrail Lighting Limited
- Countries in footprint: 64 [Source 1]
- On EPC Feed: 0 tenders issued, 1 awards won, 2 evaluated bids, 0 tenders financed, 1 stories
- Page: https://epcfeed.com/companies/transrail-lighting


## Transrail Lighting: an engineering assessment of integrated power-transmission delivery

EPC Feed engineering assessment. Published 2026-10-25; Updated 2026-10-25T21:48:09.855Z.

Transrail Lighting’s strongest documented engineering proposition is its power-transmission integration: the company describes work spanning design, engineering, supply, manufacturing, construction and testing, supported by its own tower, conductor and monopole facilities. Its investor presentation reports transmission-line EPC capability up to 1,200 kV, substations up to 765 kV and 800 kV HVDC lines. Those figures are company-reported capability ceilings, not a statement that every project operates at those voltages. They nevertheless show a contractor profile built around both line construction and the equipment supply chain that feeds it. [Source 1, 5]

The company reports more than 35,800 circuit-kilometres of transmission lines constructed, over 1.46 million tonnes of towers supplied and more than 204,000 kilometres of conductors supplied. The engineering significance of those figures is the coupling between line design and manufacturing: tower geometry, conductor selection and testing affect constructability and electrical performance. Transrail also describes an in-house tower-testing facility. The assessment is positive because the company presents a tangible link between engineering, production and verification, while the disclosed figures remain company-reported and do not establish performance on any individual contract. [Source 1, 5]

Transrail’s formal profile broadens beyond overhead transmission. Its listed activities include substations, underground cabling, rural electrification, civil construction, railways, solar EPC and poles and lighting. This combination can be useful in infrastructure programs where power corridors connect to substations, access works and urban or industrial distribution. The source does not say that all these capabilities are deployed together on every contract. The engineering assessment is therefore about breadth of available delivery functions, not a claim that Transrail has a single turnkey scope covering all disciplines on a particular project. [Source 1, 5]

The company’s investor presentation describes activity in more than 28 African countries, including transmission lines, substations and rural electrification, alongside its India portfolio and projects in other regions. It also reports over 300 completed projects in India and 50-plus ongoing projects at the time of the presentation. Such geographic range raises the importance of adapting design and execution to different grid conditions, procurement arrangements and local construction contexts. These are general demands of international EPC work, not claims about a specific African project or an independently rated capability. [Source 1, 5]

Transrail’s Q3 and nine-month FY26 release reports order inflow of ₹5,135 crore for the nine-month period, with 55 percent domestic and 45 percent international. Its unexecuted order book was ₹14,733 crore as of 31 December 2025, or ₹18,216 crore including L1 positions. The split is informative for an engineering contractor because it signals a portfolio containing both domestic and overseas work, but L1 positions are not awards and should not be combined with contracted backlog as if equally committed. The release also reports capacity expansion underway at tower and conductor facilities. [Source 6]

The presentation’s historical timeline records a first 132 kV line foundation in 1984, a first 400 kV transmission-line assignment in 1987, later manufacturing and tower-testing facilities, and subsequent substation, HVDC and railway capabilities. These are company-reported milestones, and they help explain how the present portfolio developed from transmission-line roots into a broader EPC offering. The engineering value of that evolution is the potential to coordinate several adjacent scope elements—steel structures, conductors, line works and substations—within one contractor organization. No conclusion about staffing or individual expertise is necessary to make that point. [Source 1, 5]

The linked World Bank notices in the underlying company record require caution: the awardee names shown in those notices are other companies, so they are not used here as evidence of Transrail’s contract awards. This assessment instead relies on Transrail’s own profile and investor disclosures. On that evidence, the company offers a credible power-infrastructure EPC profile grounded in manufacturing, testing and construction breadth. Project-specific performance, delivery outcomes and award attribution should be assessed from future notices naming Transrail directly, rather than inferred from general capabilities or unrelated procurement records. [Source 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4]


## Contracts won

- [400 kV double-circuit lines Mlaabi–Grombalia 2–Mornaguia: design, supply and installation, Tunisia](https://epcfeed.com/tenders/tunisia-steg-400kv-mlaabi-grombalia-mornaguia-lines): Awarded

## Bids listed in award notices

- [Mpika–Kasama second 330 kV transmission line (200 km) and substation works, Zambia](https://epcfeed.com/tenders/zambia-mpika-kasama-330kv-transmission-line): Awarded
- [Pensulo–Mpika second 330 kV transmission line (186 km) and substation works, package 1, Zambia](https://epcfeed.com/tenders/zambia-pensulo-mpika-330kv-transmission-line-package-1): Awarded

## Projects named in sources

- 400 kV Mlaabi–Grombalia 2–Mornaguia double-circuit lines, Tunisia: Design, supply and installation contractor, 2026, awarded [Source 2]

## Sources

1. [About us](https://www.transrail.in/about-us). Reference, Transrail Lighting, Read 2026-10-23.
2. [World Bank procurement notice OP00446191: Contract award, 400 kV Mlaabi–Grombalia 2–Mornaguia lines](https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/procnotices?format=json&id=OP00446191). Official notice, World Bank, Published 2026-05-20, Read 2026-10-23.
3. [World Bank procurement notice OP00475127: Contract award, Mpika–Kasama 330 kV transmission line](https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/procnotices?format=json&id=OP00475127). Official notice, World Bank, Published 2026-10-14, Read 2026-10-23.
4. [World Bank procurement notice OP00457165: Contract award, Pensulo–Mpika 330 kV transmission line, package 1](https://search.worldbank.org/api/v2/procnotices?format=json&id=OP00457165). Official notice, World Bank, Published 2026-07-16, Read 2026-10-23.
5. [Investor Presentation Q3 & 9MFY26](https://transrail.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/InvestorpresentationearningcallUFRDec2025.pdf). Stock exchange filing, Transrail Lighting Limited, Published 2026-02-02, Read 2026-10-25.
6. [Earnings Press Release: quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2025](https://transrail.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/PressreleaseUFRDec2025.pdf). Stock exchange filing, Transrail Lighting Limited, Published 2026-02-02, Read 2026-10-25.