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 Posted - 02/13/2007 : 08:44:18
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http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?
id=702120521&cat=&n_date=20070212
Jaisalmer | February 12, 2007 3:43:12 PM IST
Indian Railways' high speed and freight corridor will be built by a
private company and a fast track will be laid in the new corridor
which will have trains running at a speed of 150 km per hour.
The Delhi-Mumbai centre, for the time being, has been chosen for
laying the first high speed corridor lines, said Divisional Railway
Manager (DRM) A K Khanna, who was in Jaisalmer yesterday.
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S.ravi
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Posted - 06/22/2008 : 02:22:06
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Railways to invite global bids for high speed route
New Delhi (PTI): Decks have been cleared for inviting global tenders for conducting a pre-feasibility study of a high-speed train on the Pune-Ahmedabad-Mumbai route, which could cut travel time between the cities by nearly half.
Currently the 660 km long distance between Pune and Ahmedabad is covered by an overnight journey. The proposed high speed train or bullet train, is expected to run at 300 km per hour on a dedicated fast track.
A consultant will be appointed to carry out the study on the proposed high speed corridor connecting Pune with Ahemadabad, a senior Railway Ministry official said.
The study will focus on technicalities, financial and operational viability of the project.
There are many countries including Japan, China, France and Germany which have shown interest in being part of the high speed corridor project.
The cost of the pre-feasibility study would be shared by the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and the Railways Ministry.
The pre-feasibility study will be followed by a more detailed study focusing on traffic pattern, funding plan, stakeholders' view, fare structure and other related issues before beginning the work, the official said.
Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad section is the second proposed route for which railways would invite tenders for the study. Three months ago, tenders were invited for the Delhi-Amritsar route in which many global players participated.
Seven global players including consultants from France, Belgium and Germany have been shortlisted for the Delhi-Amritsar route and a final decision on selection of the consultant would be taken shortly, the official added.
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irse
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Posted - 09/15/2008 : 06:32:29
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Mumbai to Pune in 80 mins?
Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 15, 2008
Inspired by China's plans to develop the world's fastest bullet train, the Indian Railways have taken the first step to construct high-speed corridors on the Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad route for bullet trains running at speeds between 300 to 350 km per hour.
In collaboration with German engineering giant Siemens, China is developing an indigenous bullet train for the 1,318 km from its capital Beijing to its economic heart, Shanghai. It will run at 380 km, currently the world's fastest.
Construction of the rail line is on, and it is expected to be complete in 2012, a year ahead of schedule.
So, in theory, India's grand plan to catch up with China sounds good: When and if these plans are implemented, it could mean the 93 km between Mumbai to Pune could be done in 20 min. The fastest train on this route, The Deccan Queen, now takes 3 hours 15 minutes. . Similarly, the 444 km distance between Mumbai and Ahmedabad could be done in 120 minutes. The fastest train on this route, the Shatabdi Expresss, now takes 6 hours 45 minutes.
Global tenders have been floated for a consultant to study if the high-cost rail lines can and should be built. Proposals from global consultants will be accepted until October 7 and the contract for the study will be issued 40 days later, Railway Board Chairman KC Jena told the HT.
If implemented, the entire stretch between Pune and Ahmedabad would be constructed on an elevated track and it would be a private-public partnership, said Jena. While the Railways will retain operational control, funds will come from bank loans and multilateral agencies.
On April 22, the Hindustan Times had reported that global tenders for preliminary studies have been issued for the Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route. A decision on a consultant for this route will be taken within two weeks, said a senior ministry official, requesting anonymity since he is not authorised to speak to the media.
But India isn't China, and there are serious doubts if we could ever produce such a rail line (see accompanying boxes)
A high-speed track is an engineering and financial challenge. Such a rail line between Pune and Mumbai will cost between about Rs 500 to Rs 800 crore per km, 200 per cent costlier than the conventional Broad-Gauge line on Indian Railways, the world's second largest rail network
At current prices, it would cost upto Rs 74,400 crore — that's more than the Railways' entire estimated earning for 2008-09 — to build a rail line between Pune and Mumbai; Rs 3,55,300 crore from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
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Posted - 08/01/2009 : 07:27:07
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Has India's high speed train left?
1 Aug 2009, 0045 hrs IST, Raghu Dayal,
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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high speed corridoor by pvt company
