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S.ravi
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 Posted - 02/13/2009 : 18:38:30
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Saturday, Feb 14, 2009
Bullet train from Hyderabad to Chennai
HYDERABAD: Feasibility studies on a bullet train on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Chennai, two superfast trains and increase in frequency of two more trains are what the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 had for the South Central Railway (SCR).
At a press conference here on Friday, SCR General Manager H.K. Padhee said, apart from studying the structure of the existing track, soil strength along the track and the curves are to be carefully considered, keeping in mind that the speed of a bullet train is 350 km per hour.
Mr. Padhee said that of the 43 new trains to be introduced in 2009-10, SCR would get two. They are Secunderabad-Manuguru superfast daily express and Machilipatnam-Mumbai superfast bi-weekly express. The Hazrat Nizamuddin-Bangalore Rajdhani Express will pass through Kachiguda.
Also, the frequency of two trains in the SCR has been increased. They are no. 7091/92 Secunderabad-Patna Express from bi-weekly to daily and no. 2739/40 Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Garib Rath Express from four days a week to daily.
YSR hails budget
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy welcomed the Railway budget. In particular, he expressed happiness that a study has been ordered on introduction of high speed (bullet) trains . The Chief Minister said in the interim budget much more could be expected. He hoped that the full budget would reflect the needs of Andhra Pradesh.
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S.ravi
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Posted - 02/15/2009 : 06:57:20
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http://www.samaylive.com/news/french-co-bags-punemumahemedabad-bullet-train-proj/ect/608669.html
Sun, 15 Feb 2009 at 10:37 IST
New Delhi: A French rail transport company has bagged the contract for conducting pre-feasibility study of ambitious Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.
Systra pipped four contenders in the race for the high- speed rail corridor study project, including companies from England, Spain, Germany and China to win the Rs 15 crores contract, said a senior Railway Ministry official close to the development.
The bullet train at 350 km per hour speed aims to reduce the travel time between Pune and Mumbai to just 25 minutes and the travel time from Mumbai to Ahmedabad will shrink to less than two hours.
Travel time between the 93 km Pune-Mumbai is three hours while journey on 440 km long Mumbai-Ahmedabad takes about 7 hours.
The study will focus on technicalities, financial and operational viability of the project. Systra is expected to submit study report within six months.
The proposed corridor will serve the cities of Pune, Lonavala, Kandla, Kalyan,Mumbai, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand and Gandhinagar.
Systra will also suggest possible alignment, fare structure and volume of passengers in the proposed high-speed corridor, the first of its kind in the country.
Besides the elevated route, Systra will also examine the possibility of opting underground route for the high-speed corridor. Railways have decided to conduct pre-feasibility study for high speed corridors in total six routes including Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Delhi-Patna.
The other routes selected for the study are Delhi- Chandigarh-Amritsar, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijaywada-Chennai, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulum and Howrah-Haldia.
According to an estimate, it will cost about Rs 50 crores to construct one km of elevated high-speed rail corridor.
States such as Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala, WestBengal have agreed to part-fund the project.
Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route is the next to be taken up for the
pre-feasibility study, the official said.
The pre-feasibility studies will be followed by detailed project reports which will focus on traffic patterns, funding plan, stakeholders' view, among others,before beginning the work.
The study on the bullet train project is required for the involvement of financial institutions and industries, while the government will give stress on viability gap funding.
Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:49 am
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S.ravi
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Posted - 02/18/2009 : 19:34:54
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http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=902170378&cat=&n_date=20090217
Bangalore | Tuesday, Feb 17 2009
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today said it may not be possible to support the High Speed Rail Link between Chennai and Bangalore proposed in the budget if the State government's suggestion for bullet train between Bangalore and Mumbai via Hubli was not considered.
In a letter to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, copy of which was released to press here, he said ''Karnataka government was the fist to offer assistance to Indian Railways to implement the High Speed Rail Link in the country. However,our suggestion was to extend the High Speed Rail Link to Mysore from Bangalore to Mumbai via Hubli link. ''The railways have again proposed the service between
Chennai-Bangalore and Bangalore-Ernakulam. Such projects would help only the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala to come to Bangalore and would not help the people of Karnataka,'' he added.
Mr Yeddyurappa said '' I request you to modify the High Speed Rail Link projects and include the Karnataka government's proposal while passing the Railway Budget-2009. Otherwise it may be difficult for Karnataka to support the projects as envisaged by the railways.''
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S.ravi
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Posted - 02/21/2009 : 09:31:54
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Technical experts rule out feasibility of running bullet trains
21 Feb 2009, 0320 hrs IST, Kumod Verma, TNN
PATNA: The dream project of railway minister Lalu Prasad as announced in the current interim railway budget that there are plans to run bullet
trains in the country is likely to prove a chimera for the Indian Railways.
Technical experts of the railways rule out its feasibility on various grounds. Lalu has proposed to run high speed bullet trains on six routes, including Patna-New Delhi.
The railways have about 60,000 km of tracks across the country. But the track condition is not conducive to run bullet trains or any other fast trains which will run at 150 kmph or more. It is merely a dream to think of running bullet trains on the Indian Railway tracks in the present condition, feels a technical expert of the railways.
Bullet trains are specially designed to run at the maximum speed of 250 or 300 kmph in foreign countries. Apart from a separate infrastructure, dedicated high speed tracks are required to run bullet trains which are economically not viable now. Moreover, no goods trains will run on the special tracks of bullet trains due to safety point of view which is not possible here, said a technical expert and former chief engineer of railways G N Sahay.
According to him, the maximum permissible speed is 150 kmph on the Delhi-Gawalior route followed by Delhi-Ahmedabad and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes. There are instances when accidents occurred due to higher than permissible speed of trains across the country, he said.
To run bullet trains, the railways will have to lay separate tracks of superhigh quality. The entire route must be fenced and it has to be ensured that there is no railway crossing levels on the route of bullet trains. The railways will have to adopt cab signalling system too.
About 38,000 crossing levels are located at different routes in the country. But the Patna-Delhi route is heavily dotted with crossing levels, the technical expert said.
According to Sahay, the railways will need about Rs 10,000 crore to build the infrastructure on a particular route. Besides, maintenance of bullet trains is very costly, particularly of its locomotives. When a bullet train leaves its originating station, tracks are cleared up to its destination point. This is not feasible here in the sense that bullet trains cannot run at one stretch nor is it a substitute for air traffic in the country, he said.
According to sources, a high-level team of technical experts from Japan and France had carried out a survey to run bullet trains in the country in 2001. However, these technical experts ruled out its feasibility on various technical and safety grounds, too. Since then the feasibility of bullet train in the country has become a million dollar question with most of technical experts ruling out the slightest possibility of its running in the country, sources said.
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Posted - 08/01/2009 : 07:24:43
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Comments-Analysis/Has-Indias-high-speed-train-left/articleshow/4843889.cms
Recent railway budgets had assured the nation that feasibility studies would be initiated regarding the induction of high speed trains along selected 300-350 km/h passenger corridors. The new railway minister, however, has not included even a reference to the high speed rail (HSR) project in the rail budget. The fact is, projects as important as this need to command continuity and commitment, given its cost-intensive and time-demanding nature.
Forty years ago, Howrah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express signified IR’s tryst with the high speed era, five years after Japan ushered in the revolution of high speed rail (HSR) in 1964, on the purpose-built 550 km Tokyo-Osaka route. Time on IR has run still, but world witnesses an HSR flurry. Japan’s Shinkansen was followed by French TGV (Train à Grand Vitesse) in 1981, Germany’s Inter-City Express in 1991 and Spain’s AVE (Automotice a Grande Vitesse) in 1992, among others.
Today, India has 19 pairs of Rajdhanis and 14 pairs of Shatabdis. While the Shatabdi on the 200 km New Delhi-Agra route is cleared for a maximum speed of 150 km/h, the upper limit of Rajdhanis and Shatabdis has remained limited to 130 km/h. The fastest among them, the New Delhi-Mumbai Rajdhani, covers 1,388 km in 16 h 35 min, averaging about 84 km/h.
Worldwide concerns over depleting fossil fuel reserves, climate change, overcrowded airports, delayed flights and congested roads have conspired with the HSR technology alternative: a full high speed electric train emits between a tenth and a quarter of the carbon dioxide of an aeroplane. HSR entails much less land usage than motorways: a double track rail line has more than thrice the passenger carrying capacity of a six-lane highway while requiring less than half the land.
Designed to be faster than a car, cheaper and more convenient than a plane, HSR has been a catalyst for economic growth, a stimulus for the development of satellite towns, alleviating migration to metropolises. For distances of 500-700 km, airlines cannot match HSR; below 200 km, road transport has an edge; beyond 1,000 km, air option may be better.
Rajdhanis and Shatabdis initially reckoned by sceptics and cynics as elitist and unviable are in no way pro-rich, nor unremunerative. For TGV in France, a general query was: why do we need a train for the rich? Today, TGV is hailed as the real “low cost” carrier and profitable too.
The first Paris-Lyon line, opened in 1981, delivers a return of 15% and the Paris-Atlantic seaboard route, opened in 1990, 12%. Some 800 TGV services operating daily in France carried over 200 million passengers and earned a profit of e 685 million in 2006. Income from the Shinkansen in 2005 totalled US $19.2 billion, 47% of JNR group’s rail business income. A really important plus is HSR’s unblemished safety record: Shinkansen has had no fatality; so also the TGV sans any accident in 25 years and more of its operation.
With a colossal level of investment, estimated at e150 billion in the next 15 years, Europe is in the grip of a veritable HSR revolution. In July 2007, HSRs in France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands joined with existing international services such as the cross-channel Eurostar and the Paris-Brussels Thalys to form Railteam, a new marketing alliance. With about 1,300 km of high speed lines and the third generation ICEs now topping 360 km/h, German Railways are now in the vanguard of Europe’s rail revolution.
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Posted - 10/12/2009 : 00:23:52
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http://www.deccanhe rald.com/ content/29140/ longer-wait- bullet-train. html
DH News Service,Oct 5,Bangalore:
The wait for the debut of a high speed train (HST) or a ‘Bullet Train’ in the country, got longer.
According to the Indian Railways that had commissioned a feasibility study for the introduction of such a train, the ambitious dream of the railways has to be taken up as a national project since it is not commercially viable.
This was disclosed by Praveen Kumar, member (Mechanical) of the Railway Board, here on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after the inauguration of an international seminar on ‘Wheel Design and Manufacture for Higher Life and Safety’ here on Tuesday, Kumar said: “Any train that moves at a speed of 250km per hour is classified as a HST and a feasibility study on routes is currently being done by the Indian Railways to examine the introduction of HST by an international consultant. The report will be completed in another six months.”
However, the project may only remain on paper, Kumar said and added: “It will not pay back. There is a problem of funding, when it comes to its actual implementation. We would have to consider it on a PPP (public-private- partnership) route, since the returns will not be high.”
No dedicated tracks
Another hurdle for its introduction is the lack of dedicated tracks in the country. “For a HST to run, we should not have any level-crossing. Speeds are required for it to be viable. It has to be supported by electronic sensors and navigation in locomotives so that manual stopping by driver is not done,” he added.
High speed train proposed routes
* Delhi-Bhopal
* Bangalore-Chennai
* Bangalore-Hubli
* Mumbai-Ahmedabad- Delhi
* Delhi-Amritsar
* Delhi-Kanpur- Allahabad
* Delhi-Chandigarh
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