Indian Railways now plans to develop four new bullet train corridors and connect 9 more cities in India

9 Indian Cities Will Get Bullet Train Connectivity: 2500 Kms Of Bullet Train Corridor Planned

Posted by Radhika Kajarekar

January 5 2022

Bullet Train Project To Cost 1.1 Crores!

The cost of this project will probably be around Rs. 1.1 lakh crores. As we had shared earlier, besides India’s 1st bullet train route between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, 12 more bullet trains routes have been approved.

Indian Railways now plans to develop four new bullet train corridors and connect nine more cities to the network. This will now be in addition to the eight networks that the railway ministry is working on. 

Read on to learn more about the Indian Railways’ plans for the new bullet train corridors!

A comprehensive National Rail Plan has been developed, which will take care of the high speed rail connectivity.

Here are the already approved eight high-speed rail corridors:

• Mumbai – Ahmedabad
• 958 km-long corridor between Delhi and Varanasi that will also have a 123 km-long spur connecting Lucknow and Ayodhya
• 736 km-long corridor between Nagpur and Mumbai
• 886 km-long corridor between Delhi and Ahmedabad
• 480 km-long corridor between Delhi and Amritsar
• 711 km-long corridor between Mumbai and Hyderabad
• 760 km-long corridor between Varanasi and Howrah
• 435 km-long high-speed corridor between Chennai and Mysore.

Four New Bullet Train Corridors Underway; Will Connect Nine Cities

The first high-speed rail corridor in India will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, covering a distance of 508 km. This one is still under construction and will probably be completed by 2026-27, as confirmed by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav.

The project is also known as the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project, according to the officials. In this release, Japan has come up with the photos of the E5 Series Shinkansen, which in turn will be modified as a bullet train that will be running between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

The project which was scheduled to be completed by 2023 is likely to be delayed as land acquisition has not been done in Maharashtra.

The draft plan includes several new High-Speed Rail Corridors. 

According to this, several bullet train corridors have been identified, and a survey on Delhi-Varanasi High-Speed Rail is already underway. 

The corridors will reportedly include a 618 km-long corridor between Hyderabad and Bangalore, an 855 km-long route between Nagpur and Varanasi, an 850 km-long way between Patna and Guwahati, and a 190 km-long corridor connecting Amritsar, Pathankot, and Jammu.

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