DESI BULLET TRAINS to run on Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Lucknow, Delhi-Bhopal route

[Victory]

Chandigarh: Imagine you have to travel for less than two hours to reach Chandigarh from Delhi. This is soon going to be possible as Indian Railways plans to roll out the desi version of Bullet trains in the next one year. Bullet trains remain a dream for the country due to high costs involved in putting up the infrastructure for such high speed trains. But, now Desi trains running at an average speed of 130 km per hour bring hope. These semi-high-speed trains will run at a speed, nearly double that clocked by Rajdhani and Shatabdi expresses, two of the fastest trains in the country at present.



Initially, railways plans to run these trains on three routes— Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Lucknow and Delhi-Bhopal — by the end of this year or early next year at an estimated economical cost of R2.5 crore per km. This is much lower than the cost of around R200 crore per km for building high-speed rail networks, according to an estimate by RITES, the railways’ consulting arm.



The second phase of these trains will be introduced in southern and eastern regions, including Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad-Chennai and Howrah-Haldia.

DESI BULLET TRAINS to run on Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Lucknow, Delhi-Bhopal route - daily.bhaskar.com



The network of high-speed trains has been present in many parts of the world, including the Europe and Japan, for long. In recent decades, similar networks have been built in China and Korea.

 

[Brahmos_2]

great news...

 

[nik22]

one year, desi bullet. Just an imagination

 

[illusion8]

Desi Bullet - Jugaad at work

 

[veekysingh]

one year, desi bullet. Just an imagination

Actually it's not that hard. All they hv to do is make the tracks little better. And put some inovation in signaling. Get rid of the non essential stopping and done. Trains can go up 140km on existing tracks anyway. All they hv to do is to keep the speed going.

 

[Tangent]

It should not be less than 180 kmps.. at the least...

 

[Dem!god]

not gonna happen in one year.....
I have very little hope.....with railway......
lets see what new railway minister can do.......

 

[Ammyy]

Actually it's not that hard. All they hv to do is make the tracks little better. And put some inovation in signaling. Get rid of the non essential stopping and done. Trains can go up 140km on existing tracks anyway. All they hv to do is to keep the speed going.

Agreed . Route those are mentioned are already capable of 180/KM trains.

 

[Arya Desa]

Is this a joke?

 

[Jai_Hind]

It should not be less than 180 kmps.. at the least...

I hope you meant KMPH.... what you wrote is kilometer per second..

 

[Tangent]

I hope you meant KMPH.... what you wrote is kilometer per second..

Thanks for correcting my typo...
But we still need 180 or more kmph trains...120 or 150 will just be a fast passenger train..

 

[Robinhood Pandey]

Within 1 year ??

Halwa hai kya

 

[illusion8]

Is this a joke?

Of course it is, rajdhani's and shatabdi's run at 130 kmph - rajdhani's have been tested to touch 145 kmph as well.

The article is probably talking about non stop trains.

 

[Jai_Hind]

Thanks for correcting my typo...
But we still need 180 or more kmph trains...120 or 150 will just be a fast passenger train..

Yes definetly.... 120 or 150 is just the the min speed of trains in many asian and europian countries and not many trains in India does that, the fastest one Bhopal Shatabdi does 160 max... A whole new infrastructure have to be built for highspeed trains which isnt possible in 1 year, thats just BS...

Plans are in paper for a few years now and I believe 180+ trains are next to come in some time...

 

[qwerrty]

jai turd