Hyderabadis can reach Mumbai in about 2 to 2.5 hours time. A High-speed Rail corridor will be ready in a years time if everything goes as planned.
The Indian Railways has identified six sections for high speed and semi-high speed corridors.These sections will be ready within a year. The new corridors will join the under-construction Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed route.
Trains can run at a maximum speed of over 300 km/hr on a high-speed corridor, while on a semi-high speed corridor, the maximum speed can go beyond 160km/hr.
Thesix corridors include the Delhi-Noida-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi (865 km)and the Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad (886km) sections.
Other corridors are Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur (753 km), Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad (711 km), Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore (435 km) and the Delhi-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jalandhar-Amritsar (459 km) sections.
The DPR will study the feasibility of these routes which includes land availability, alignment and a study of the traffic potential there. After these things are studied, we will decide if they will be high-speed or semi-high speed corridors.
India’s bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the country’s first high-speed corridor, will be completed by December 2023, he said.
The 90 per cent land acquisition work for the bullet train project will be completed in the next six months.
