India set to launch South Asia's first Semi High Speed Rail

[TopCat]

High speed trains?? Look out....

This is Bangladesh

 

[Prayas]

Good hope it start in other part of India

 

[Dem!god]

160kmph.. not bad..but for semi-high speed railway we need speed of 200 kmph...
if the speed is increased to 200kmph then kolkata to delhi time will be reduced to 11-12 Hr. ..

this will slowly happen to all railway line they will clock up the speed.... and the cost is low too.... if I am not wrong the indian railway engines are currently capable of running at 220 kmph but are capped to lower because of chances of accident and other...tracks needs to be improved...tracks are of major concern....

 

[danger007]

janmabhoomi super fast btwn vizag and secundrabad is all chair car... journey time 12 hrs

even palnadu express too.

 

[OrionHunter]

This is Bangladesh

I know, man! That was just an illustration to show a cow grazing on a rail track!!

 

[kaku1]

This is Bangladesh

But that locomotive looking indian made.

 

[Contrarian]

200 km in 90 mins: Delhi-Agra high speed train sets new speed record


NEW DELHI: A passenger train set a new national speed record of 160 kilometres an hour (100 miles an hour) on Thursday during a test between New Delhi and Agra.

The introduction of high-speed links and bullet trains were one of the key poll campaign promises of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who won elections in May.

Today's test, part of the government's plans to upgrade the ageing rail network, saw the train complete the 200 kilometres between New Delhi and Agra in around
90 minutes. The top speed clocked at 10 kilometres more than the previous record.

"This is now the fastest train in India," Delhi divisional railway manager Anurag Sachan told reporters from inside the train. "We are recording all technical parameters during the trial run and hope to introduce it to the public by this November."

While fast by Indian standards, the train is some way from the Japanese "Shinkansen" admired by Modi which reach speeds of 320 kilometres an hour.

Government is set to roll out extensive plans to overhaul country's massive but loss-making network on Tuesday when the Modi government will present its first railway budget.

Observers say the railways have been neglected by successive governments over the past three decades of rapid economic growth during which car ownership has surged and low-cost airlines have mushroomed.

But it continues to be one of the main modes of long-distance travel for most, while increased use of the tracks for freight could help ease road traffic congestion.

Similar high-speed rail corridors are being planned between New Delhi and Chandigarh, and New Delhi and Kanpur 500 kilometres away.

"The cost of upgrading tracks, signal systems and other related infrastructure isn't high on some of the corridors which already have other high speed trains," Sachan told media.

"We are confident of expanding it once this project is completed," he added.

200 km in 90 mins: Delhi-Agra high speed train sets new speed record - The Economic Times

 

[acid rain]

Yep! Imagine a train zipping along at 250 kmph with cows and donkeys grazing on the tracks!! And then we have hundreds of those dangerous unmanned crossings too!

The only alternative is to build elevated high speed tracks or an impenetrable fence along the entire length. And I haven't even got started on our Naxal friends who are always up to no good. One fish plate removed and......

You talking of cows and donkeys? a train in Karnataka ran over two elephants yesterday..

 

[OrionHunter]

You talking of cows and donkeys? a train in Karnataka ran over two elephants yesterday..

Oh crap! That sucked!

 

[Hulk]

What surprised me in this news was that I thought shatbadi already runs at 160 kmph. It maybe not official, but it does it in some parts.

 

[mehboobkz]

India is nowhere near this:

 

[Contrarian]

India is nowhere near this:

Why do you think it is called Semi-High Speed Rail everywhere. Obviously its not close to High Speed Rail.
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