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Posted: Dec 18 2017 (15:25)
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Last Response: Dec 22 2017 (05:00)
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SWR/South Western
karbang~ 1756 news posts
Karnataka is among the three worst states in the country with regard to electrification of railway lines, behind only Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. According to the...
8 Public Posts - Mon Dec 18, 2017
3 Public Posts - Tue Dec 19, 2017
I believe the 632 km is the track kilometer and not the route kilometer. Only the HUP-DMM and KPN-JTJ sections in SWR are the electrified sections outside Karnataka. The total electrified track kilometer within KA does come out to be a little more than 600km (Excluding loop lines at stations).
Most of these developments are usually capital centric. Bangalore's location and the lack of any trunk routes in KA partly played spoilsport in electrification of the routes here. AP indirectly benefited from lying on the MAS-HWH and MAS-NDLS trunk routes. Indeed, other than these two trunk routes (and the stretch to Hyderabad), the rest of AP and Telangana are either still un-electrified or were electrified only in...
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Most of these developments are usually capital centric. Bangalore's location and the lack of any trunk routes in KA partly played spoilsport in electrification of the routes here. AP indirectly benefited from lying on the MAS-HWH and MAS-NDLS trunk routes. Indeed, other than these two trunk routes (and the stretch to Hyderabad), the rest of AP and Telangana are either still un-electrified or were electrified only in...
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2 Public Posts - Fri Dec 22, 2017