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With a key report from the Japan International Cooperation Agency into the Mumbai - Ahmedabad high-speed project expected this month, Raghav Thakur, looks at the prospects...
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Indian Railways (IR) currently operates 12,617 passenger and 7421 freight trains every day on a 65,436km network. The average speed of Mail and Express trains is just 54km/h, while freight trains only average 25.9km/h. In the 67 years since independence, India has added around 10,000km of additional lines to its network, while approximately 50% of passenger traffic is concentrated along a 16% section of the network in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. Passenger traffic is expected to grow from 8.9 billion in 2012-13 to 11.7 billion in 2016-17 and IR has a long list of pending projects including 154 new line projects, 42 gauge-conversion and 166 track-doubling schemes. However, the railway lacks the funds required to realise these...
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Indian Railways (IR) currently operates 12,617 passenger and 7421 freight trains every day on a 65,436km network. The average speed of Mail and Express trains is just 54km/h, while freight trains only average 25.9km/h. In the 67 years since independence, India has added around 10,000km of additional lines to its network, while approximately 50% of passenger traffic is concentrated along a 16% section of the network in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. Passenger traffic is expected to grow from 8.9 billion in 2012-13 to 11.7 billion in 2016-17 and IR has a long list of pending projects including 154 new line projects, 42 gauge-conversion and 166 track-doubling schemes. However, the railway lacks the funds required to realise these...
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