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Superspeed to Taj: Travel to Agra in 90 mins by 'fastest train' from November

Come November and you can travel to Agra, the city of Taj Mahal, by train in just 90 minutes, cutting the journey time by 30 minutes at least.

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The passenger train sets off during the trial run of a 'semi-bullet train' between New Delhi and Agra from New Delhi railway station (Arun Sharma/HT Photo)
This has been made possible as the railways on Thursday successfully conducted the trial run of the country's fastest train that moves at a speed of 160 kms per hour.

Its commercial operation is expected to begin in November, railway officials said.

Read: Delhi-Agra in 90 min, but is India’s fastest train just a bluff?

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An Indian railways worker cleans a coach prior to the trial run of a high-speed train between New Delhi and Agra is flagged off at New Delhi railway station (AFP Photo)

So far, Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi was the fastest train with a speed of 160 kmph.

The trial run of the 'semi high-speed train' was conducted this morning on a 10-coach train. It left New Delhi station at 11.15 am and reached Agra about 99 minutes later.

However, from Nizamuddin station, where it will actually originate during commercial operations, the train took 90 minutes, Deputy Regional Manager (DRM) Delhi Division Anurag Sachan said.

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Technical team inside the Train during the trial run of a 'semi-bullet train' between New Delhi and Agra from New Delhi railway station (Arun Sharma/HT Photo)

The time taken currently by the Shatabdi train between Delhi and Agra takes 120 minutes.

A journey by road via the Yamuna expressway takes two hours between Delhi and Agra.

After the Delhi-Agra service, Railways are expected to run similar high speed trains on Delhi-Kanpur and Delhi-Chandigarh sections.

"The trial run was conducted successfully and we hope to start commercial service by November," said Sachan who was involved in the exercise on Thursday.

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The passenger train sets off during the trial run of a 'semi-bullet train' between New Delhi and Agra from New Delhi railway station (Arun Sharma/HT Photo)


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Softbank Inc. to invest $ 10 Billion in India!

Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, Australia, S. Africa are heavy investros in Indian IT.

US is huge. EU over the top. Korea, Russia, Taiwan big too. Missing ... or catching the bus are Iran, Mexico, Brazil and China.

IT investments flowing into India remain astounding compared to other inflows. Cisco, Fb, MS, TI, GE, Alcatel, Honeywell, ABB, Siemens, Fujitsu have often individually invested upto $ 1 Billion each. Shockingly, I recall Pakistan has been going through a rough time raising $ 1 Billion from aid agencies to repay debt etc. recently.

India's IT play absorbs over 250000 techies/yr. Total tech. HR is only 500000/yr. 10 million IT jobs and booming through the roof attracting mega Global funds. Think of all the govt., PSU, PWD's, Civil Works, Electric Co.'s, IR, Defence, Roads, Atomic, Outerspace, Airline Co.'s who must be crying to bag good techies. India's never had it so good- so fast in any vertical, doubt if comparable investments have flown into anything so fast-so big. No, to even Gulf oil. Oil has been happening for more then 1/2 century. The Thai motor play, Mexico's maquiladoras, Ozzy coal and ore, Singapore semi-conductors maybe.

Indo-Pak. free trade would have naturally meantime lots of fab., white collar jobs for Pak. middle class techies in India's Global IT play. Instead, Pak.'s middle-class origin professionals line up for Gulf or West visas where standards are out of reach for many. Pak.'s have to put in twice the effort for less then satisfactory output. It's hard to be Pakistani and Gulfie/Westerner, kind a bi-polar!
 
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