Western Railway has confirmed that the travel time on the Delhi-Mumbai route will be reduced by over five hours since Rajdhani train speed will be increased from existing 130 km/h to 160 km/h
Passengers travelling between Delhi-Mumbai on Rajdhani train can reach their destination faster than earlier by 2023. DNA had reported (‘Railways aims for Mumbai-Delhi in 10 hrs’) on June 20, 2019.
Western Railway has confirmed that the travel time on the Delhi-Mumbai route will be reduced by over five hours since Rajdhani train speed will be increased from existing 130 km/h to 160 km/h.
By increasing the speed the travel time between Delhi-Mumbai will be reduced to 10 hours as compared to the current 15.5 hours.
“After approval of the Central Govt, Mumbai-Delhi route will be upgraded to run Rajdhani Express at 160 km/h to cut the travel time to nearly 10 hours, under #MissionRaftaar,” the Western Railway has tweeted.
In a bid to reduce travel time, the Indian Railways, under its 100-day action plan, envisaged reducing the travel time on the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah routes.
‘Mission Raftaar’ was first announced in the Railway Budget 2016-17. The mission envisages a target of doubling of the average speed of freight trains and increasing the average speed of all non-suburban passenger trains by 25 km/h in the next five years. Principal routes that were identified for raising of speed under Mission Raftaar comprised six routes on Golden Quadrilateral and diagonals namely, Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Howrah, Howrah-Chennai, Chennai -Mumbai, Delhi-Chennai and Howrah- Mumbai.
These six routes carry 58% of freight traffic and 52% of coaching traffic with a share of only 16% of the network. Golden Quadrilateral and its diagonal routes have been prioritised for replacement of loco-hauled short distance passenger trains by MEMUs/DEMUs having better acceleration and deceleration characteristics for fast pickup and braking to cut down travel time.
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