Thursday, 29 March 2018
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Trial Run on 190 km Dedicated Rail Freight Corridor a Success
Trial Run on 190 km Dedicated Rail Freight Corridor a Success
Locomotive clocks 100 kmph in 1st trial run on western dedicated freight corridor. The distance between two stations is 190 kms which was covered in 3 hours and 52 minutes. The trial run on the eastern corridor of DFC was carried out in March 2016.
NEW DELHI: The DFCCIL on Tuesday said it had successfully conducted the trial run on the 190-km Ateli-Phulera section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor at a maximum speed of 100 kmph in less than four hours.
“Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Ltd. (DFCCIL) achieved a historic feet by successfully completing the trial run on its western corridor for the first time,” it said in a release.
According to the DFFCIL, the trial run of the Railways locomotive was conducted from Ateli in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district to Phulera in Rajasthan’s Jaipur district during the day.
“The locomotive covered 190 km in 3 hours and 52 minutes and touched a maximum speed of 100 kmph,” it said. The section has over 10 viaducts and major bridges, 127 minor bridges, one rail flyover and 118 under-bridges.
The 3,373-km DFC, a flagship project of the Railways, aims to augment rail transport capacity to meet the growing requirement of movement of goods by segregating freight from passenger traffic. The Eastern Corridor of the DFC runs from Ludhiana to Dankuni (1856 Kms) and the Western Corridor from Dadri to Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, Mumbai (1504 Kms).
The Western DFC runs from Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai to Tughlakabad and Dadri near Delhi, and aims to cater largely to the container transport requirements between the existing and emerging ports in Maharashtra and Gujarat and the northern hinterland.
The 1,839 km Eastern DFC runs from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni near Kolkata — to be extended in future to serve the new deep-sea port proposed in the Kolkata area, and will largely handle coal and steel traffic.
The DFCCIL plans to run freight trains at a maximum speed of 100 kmph as against the current 75 kmph. It also plans to increase the average speed of freight trains from the existing 26 kmph to 70 kmph on the DFC.
The Western Corridors is being funded by Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), while the Eastern Corridor from Mughalsarai to Ludhiana is being funded by the World Bank.
Sunday, 4 March 2018
Rs.10 lakh-Crore HSR Corridor
Rs.10 lakh-Crore HSR Corridor connecting all major cities along the lines of Bharatmala Highways Development Program soon
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways would soon announce a Rs 10 lakh-crore high-speed train corridors construction plan to connect all major cities in the country, covering almost 10,000 kilometres, along the lines of the government’s Bharatmala highways development programme.
“The plan would be announced in April,” a top rail ministry official said. “We’ll unveil the routes that would be connected along with the funding mechanism,” an official from Railway Board told. Trains would be able to run at 200 km per hour on the new rail lines that would come elevated atop the existing or upcoming national highways or on rail land that runs parallel to existing rail routes, the official said.
Railways would come out with large tenders, inviting all global majors, to keep the cost of construction minimal. The government plans to build double lines on single pillars to halve the cost of construction from Rs 200 crore per km to Rs 100 crore per km. Also, light-weight aluminium coaches would be specifically designed for trains to be run on electric traction.
The mechanism of funding would most likely be borrowings from financial institutions and multilateral agencies along with monetising land bank. “The operational profitability of such projects is high as the revenues would also come from non-fare box such as commercial exploitation of stations as metro has done,” the official said. Railways minister Piyush Goyal has asked his officials to work on speed, scale and skill to achieve early implementation of these projects.
The government is currently constructing a 534 km-long bullet train corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad at a cost of over Rs 1 lakh crore. The project is likely to be completed by the end of 2022.
Feasibility studies for various other corridors including Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Kolkata and Bengaluru-Chennai have already been done.
At the recently held Summit, Goyal had laid down his blueprint for the transformation of railways in country that included bringing high speed technology to the country along with overhauling the signalling network on rail routes
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