Yet another milestone in introduction of fuel-efficient technologies for diesel engines has been achieved with Indian Railways manufacturing the first multi-genset locomotive in India.
Category: Railways & Metro Rail
Post
Post
Delhi monorail by 2017
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has reiterated her commitment to make sure the city has its monorail by 2017. An Indo-Japan monorail seminar was conducted recently to discuss the likely prospects of monorail in Delhi.
Post
Mumbai Metro to be commissioned this year
Mumbai likely to have its Metro rail service by this year end, said the project executing company Reliance Infrastructure on August 27. The company added that it is waiting for requisite approvals. The firm is planning expansion of the metro line. Once it started, the Mumbai Metro rail can accommodate seven lakh passengers a day.
Post
India has 4,786 rail stations with more than 2 platforms
In the country, the total number of railway stations having two or more platforms are 4786. So far, 56 railway stations have been equipped with 153 escalators including Metro Railway Kolkata and suburban section of Chennai, said the Union Minister of State for Railways Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha recently.
Post
Railways explores to set up JV nuke plant
The present peak power requirement of Indian Railways is around 4000 mega watt (mw). Preliminary discussions have been held with Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for exploring the possibility of setting up of a nuclear power plant of 1,400 mw capacity in Joint Venture with them.
Post
625 km double track rail corridor awarded at Rs 6,700 cr
In yet another important development in the implementation of the ambitious Dedicated Freight Corridor Project of Indian Railways, the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) has awarded a major contract for construction of 625 km of double track corridor from Rewari (Haryana) to Iqbalgarh (Gujrat) via Rajasthan at a cost of about Rs 6,700 crore.
Post
Govt plans to integrate metro station with ISBT
Delhi government plans to integrate the upcoming Kashmere Gate Metro station with the existing station as well as the inter-state bus terminal (ISBT). For this purpose, the state government decided not to continue with the second phase of renovations of the ISBT. The second phase of the renovations at the ISBT included a hotel and an underground parking lot at the bus
Post
India to build rail lines along its borders at Rs 80,000 cr
The Union government has completed survey on 10 key proposed railway lines for which most of the funding likely to come out of the railway budget. The government is preparing a Rs 80,000 crore plan to build the railway lines along India's strategic frontiers. Working in tandem railways and the military have identified certain lines that must be given priority in construction. The strategic lines include the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh railway line. It will cover a distance of more than 400 km cutting b
Post
Pipavav upgrades container infrastructure
In a move that raises the operational capacity of APM Terminals Pipavav, the port authority upgraded its infrastructure with the ability to carry double stack high cube containers.
Post
India-Bangladesh rail work soon
India and Bangladesh will work on a new rail link between the two countries along Tripura to ease surface transport in the mountainous north-eastern states. The work would start this year, officials of the two countries said in Agartala recently.