In a major relief to long distance train passengers, Maharashtra’s first intra-state high-speed bullet train rail projects may finally get on track by 2022.
This development came after Minister of State for Railways Raosaheb Danve Patil on Monday, December 27, took a review of the alignments and issued directives to complete the Detailed Project Report (DPR) in the first half of 2022.
Both the bullet trains - Mumbai to Nagpur and other between Mumbai and Pune - aim to cut down the journey time.
On the same day, the National High Speed Rail Corporation team gave a presentation on both the projects to Danve, who told them to expedite the process.
During the presentation, official stated that the 767-km-long Mumbai Nagpur project will be parallel to the new Samruddhi corridor coming up. It will cut down the journey time between Mumbai to Nagpur from 14 hours to a mere four hours. The Mumbai-Pune corridor aims to bring down the journey time from three hours to 90 minutes.
Two corridors for Maharashtra—Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur High-Speed Rail and Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad High-Speed Rail corridor— have been proposed, with trains running at 300 kmph with an average speed of 250 kmph. Moreover, the rakes will have a capacity of 750 passengers.
Meanwhile, the cost of the project is yet to be worked out and will depend on the land acquisition process, official stated.
Apart from this, other high-speed rail corridors nationally include Mumbai-Ahmedabad (508 km), Delhi-Varanasi (865 km), Delhi-Ahmedabad (886 km), Chennai-Mysore (435 km), Delhi-Amritsar (459 km) and Varanasi-Howrah (760 km).
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