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ANKAI CHORD LINE

There is good news for Marathwada.Railway Board has sanctioned a chord line connecting the Aurangabad line with the Manmad ...Daund Line with a U turn Chord line.This will be completed within 6 months.Once this is done, all trains coming from Aurangabad and wanting to go towards Pune can make a U tun on the chord line at Ankai and start the journey on the MMR DD line without going to Manmad.About 32 kms travel will be saved by skipping MMR.
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This also means that the dream of a Kopargaon Rotegaon line has vanished in thin Air. More express trains will be introduced from Aurangabad towadsPune, Konkan railway, Kolhapur and Bengaluru.

I am very happy for this development. Also the doubling survey for Ankai to Aurangabad has been given the final go ahead signal.Cheers!!!