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Route (Mumbai-Ahmedabad), Fare, Facilities from below framed section. Piyush
Goyal, new Railway Minister has said that the work on India’s first high-speed
train generally known as ‘bullet train’ will kick-start on September 14 with a
foundation stone laying ceremony in Ahmedabad.
Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi
and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday laid the foundation stone.
The bullet train technology would “revolutionize and change the transport
sector. It will advantage the farmers for transportation of agricultural
produce in a fast mode. Mumbai-Ahmedabad BULLET Train Route will begin soon.
High-speed rail was visualized by PM Modi
to take Indian Railways towards most modern technologies like the developed
countries. With Indian Railways adopting such technologies, the bullet train
was an endeavour to bring economic growth and prosperity in the country. The
508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project will entail an estimated cost
of Rs. 1,10,000 crore.
BULLET
Train Route Fare, Facilities
However, Abe has indicated Japan, is estimated
to sign as many as 10 memorandums of understandings. It is also expected Japan
will increase its investment into Gujarat from present $1 billion to $3
billion.The project will be based on Japan’s Shinkansen high-speed rail
technology and Japan is also providing a soft loan of 880 bln rupees,
accounting for 81% of the total estimated project cost of 1.08 trln rupees.
The soft loan has been provided at a rate
of interest of 0.1% per annum with a refund period of 50 years, which includes
a grace period of 15 years. High-speed railway is a railway system wherein the
running speed of trains is 250 km per hour or above. India was a lone exception
among major passenger railway systems not to have a high-speed railway system.
Travel time between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on
the high-speed rail link is estimated between 2-3 (two and three hours) versus
the travel time by train of 7-8 (seven to eight hours ) at present. The length
of the rail corridor will be around 508( five hundred and eighty) km and it
will have 12(twelve) stations. Please have a look on complete details about BULLET
Train Route
BULLET
Train Route details:
Details of the train are being worked out
by officials from the ministry of Railways. According to sources, the Railways
has planned to run two types of bullet trains on the basis of their speed.
High-speed train will halt at all ten
stations on the proposed high-speed corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad,
while the rapid high-speed train will halt only at major stations.
According to the first proposal, the
high-speed train will take 2.58 hours to reach the destination, and the rapid
high-speed will cover the distance in 2.07 hours.
High-speed
train information:
High-speed train will also pass through the
country’s biggest tunnel of 21 km, of which seven km will be under the sea. Of
the 508-km stretch, 92 per cent of the route will be elevated, six per cent in
tunnel and the rest two per cent will be on the ground. That is, 508 km stretch
will have 468 km of elevated track, 27 km inside tunnel and the remaining 13 km
on the ground.
On the other hand, the charge structure of
the bullet train is yet to be finalised, but according to officials from the
National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC), it will be 1.5 times the first
class AC fare of trains running on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route.
Ticket
Range:
The fare of a first class ticket between
Mumbai to Ahmedabad ranges between Rs 1,800 to Rs 3,000. Thus, the fare
structure of the bullet train is expected to range anywhere between Rs 3,000
and Rs 5,000, depending on their speed.
On the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route, total 12
stations have been proposed that include Mumbai, Thane, Virar, Boisar, Vapi,
Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati. And, if the
bullet train will stop at all 12 stations, then it will cover the distance in
two hours and fifty-eight minutes.
In a day, the high-speed train will make 70
Ahmedabad-Mumbai sorties. A total of 24 high-speed trains will be imported from
Japan and then rest of the rakes will be manufactured in India.
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