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NEW DELHI: Railways has put the third corridor, Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar, for running bullet trains on the fast-track.
The transporter held a high-level meeting on Tuesday to speed up the study to run trains at a speed of 300 kmph on the corridor that would reduce travel time to Amritsar to about two-and-half hours from six hours.
The pre-feasibility study of the proposed 450 km long project is being conducted by French consultant Systra,
along with railways subsidiary Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES).
Senior railways official met with representative of the two agencies. The study, costing railways about Rs 7 crore, will identify suitable routes for high-speed alignment and station locations using satellite imagery data.
It would give a detailed idea about the cost, environmental impact and likely passenger load and should take about seven months.
Railways own estimates had valued the project at around Rs 70,000-80,000 crore.
The work on two bullet train corridors—Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Delhi-Chennai--gathered momentum after the BJP dispensation came to power.
The feasibility study of the 534-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor project, estimated to cost Rs 63,180 crore and currently being conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is in an advanced stage.
A team of senior railway officials visited Beijing to take forward the Delhi-Chennai high-speed corridor project, the longest in India.
The 1,754 km-long Delhi-Chennai route is proposed to be developed jointly with China, which is home to the world's longest high-speed rail line between Beijing and Guangzhou.
The Delhi-Chennai route, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream Diamond Quadrilateral project, which aims to build a high-speed train network between different cities, including Delhi-Mumbai, Mumbai-Chennai, Chennai-Kolkata, Kolkata-Delhi and Mumbai-Kolkata, is likely to cost Rs 2 lakh crore.
Govt steps on the gas to speed up Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar bullet train project - The Times of India
The transporter held a high-level meeting on Tuesday to speed up the study to run trains at a speed of 300 kmph on the corridor that would reduce travel time to Amritsar to about two-and-half hours from six hours.
The pre-feasibility study of the proposed 450 km long project is being conducted by French consultant Systra,
along with railways subsidiary Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES).
Senior railways official met with representative of the two agencies. The study, costing railways about Rs 7 crore, will identify suitable routes for high-speed alignment and station locations using satellite imagery data.
It would give a detailed idea about the cost, environmental impact and likely passenger load and should take about seven months.
Railways own estimates had valued the project at around Rs 70,000-80,000 crore.
The work on two bullet train corridors—Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Delhi-Chennai--gathered momentum after the BJP dispensation came to power.
The feasibility study of the 534-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor project, estimated to cost Rs 63,180 crore and currently being conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is in an advanced stage.
A team of senior railway officials visited Beijing to take forward the Delhi-Chennai high-speed corridor project, the longest in India.
The 1,754 km-long Delhi-Chennai route is proposed to be developed jointly with China, which is home to the world's longest high-speed rail line between Beijing and Guangzhou.
The Delhi-Chennai route, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream Diamond Quadrilateral project, which aims to build a high-speed train network between different cities, including Delhi-Mumbai, Mumbai-Chennai, Chennai-Kolkata, Kolkata-Delhi and Mumbai-Kolkata, is likely to cost Rs 2 lakh crore.
Govt steps on the gas to speed up Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar bullet train project - The Times of India
