{"id":21010,"date":"2014-10-17T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=21010"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:50:59","slug":"high-speed-rail-corridor-project-indian-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/high-speed-rail-corridor-project-indian-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Government\u2019s High Speed Rail Corridor project gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways has commissioned a study to find the feasibility for one of the most ambitious project, the high speed rail corridor that runs trains at a high speed of 300 kmph.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Going from one railway platform to another? You can call a taxi! Conditions apply.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/ferry-cart-at-railway-station\/\" target=\"_blank\">Going from one railway platform to another? You can call a taxi!\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initially the study will be conducted on 450 km long Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route. The pre-feasibility study of the proposed will be conducted by French consultant agency Systra along with railways subsidiary RITES.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Railways had identified four more corridors including Trivandrum for running high speed train with the aim to connect commercial, tourist and pilgrimage hubs in India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other routes are Chennai-Trivandrum via Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam, Delhi-Patna via Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, Howrah-Haldia, and Delhi-Jaipur-Jodhpur.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-speed_rail_in_India#Feasibility_studies)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> various consultants has been identified for conducting the pre-feasibility study for the corridors. However, pre-feasibility study for the Chennai-Trivandrum is yet to be started.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"IRCTC launches official Android App for train ticket booking\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/irctc-launches-official-android-app-for-train-ticket-booking\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRCTC launches official Android App for train ticket booking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chennai &#8211; Trivandrum High-Speed Passenger Corridor project has been approved by Planning Commission of the India and the PMO. However, Trivandrum &#8211; Mangalore HSR project has been scrapped by Kerala government.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Railways\u2019 \u201c<strong>Vision 2020<\/strong>\u201d submitted to Parliament in 2009 envisages implementation of regional high-speed rail projects to provide environmentally friendly time-efficient journeys which can be provided by the new high speed rail systems designed for trains travelling up to 300 km per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways has commissioned a study to find the feasibility for one of the most ambitious project, the high speed rail corridor that runs trains at a high speed of 300 kmph. Going from one railway platform to another? You can call a taxi!\u00a0 Initially the study will be conducted on 450 km long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}