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Posted: Oct 06 2016 (05:55)
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There's good news for railway passengers travelling from Mumbai to cities such as Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. The railway ministry has announced that its pilot project to increase the average speed of trains- called Mission Raftaar- on the extremely congested Ghaziabad – Allahabad - Mughalsarai route has been successful and the same experiment can now be tried out on the Mumbai-Delhi, Delhi–Howrah, Howrah-Chennai, Chennai–Mumbai, Delhi–Chennai and Howrah–Mumbai routes.The experiment has the potential to speed the entire railway network because the above mentioned routes are the principal routes of the railways. These 6 routes carry 58% of freight traffic and 52 of coaching traffic with a share of only 15 of the track network, railway statistics show.
The Ghaziabad–Allahabad-Mughalsarai route's upward average speed...
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The Ghaziabad–Allahabad-Mughalsarai route's upward average speed...
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