A successful trial run of a railcar on the New DDU-Shujatpur section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor has paved the way for increasing the maximum speed of freight trains to 100 kilometers per hour. The trial run, conducted on Saturday in the presence of the Managing Director of the Freight...
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Corridor, Ravindra Kumar Jain, included a test on the bridge over the Yamuna River. Previously, freight trains on this 210 km stretch were limited to a speed of 75 km per hour. The Managing Director commended the officers and staff of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor for the successful trial.

A trial run of a freight train at 100 kilometers per hour was conducted on Saturday, July 27th, 2024, on the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor between New Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) and Shujaatpur. The trial included the newly built bridge over the Yamuna River, where the train also maintained a speed...
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of 100 kilometers per hour. The trial was successful, clearing the way for freight trains to operate at this speed. The Managing Director, Ravindra Kumar, congratulated the team on this achievement. The trial commenced at 9 am from New DDU station and the train reached New Kanpur station at 1:05 pm, covering a distance of 337 kilometers at an average speed of 82.53 kilometers per hour. The inspection of the newly built Yamuna bridge was also conducted during the trial, with the inspection train traversing the bridge at 100 kilometers per hour. The trial was supervised by several officials, including the Director of Project, Pankaj Saxena, and Executive Directors G.D. Bhagavani, Anurag Yadav, A.S. Tomar, A.B. Saran, Ashish Mishra, Shashikant Dwivedi, and Mannu Prakash Dube.