Railway Minister shares video of bullet train ballastless track: ‘First in India’

Mr. Vaishnaw said that 295.5 km of jetties and 153 km of viaducts have been completed.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday shared a video of India’s first ballastless track system for bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on X website Developed by train project. The minister revealed that significant progress has been made with bullet trains, which have a speed barrier of 320 km/h. Mr. Vaishnaw said that 295.5 km of jetties and 153 km of viaducts have been completed.

He posted a video of the same on his Jetty projects. There’s more to come in Modi 3.0”.

Watch the video here:

Bharat’s first ballastless track #bullettrain !

✅Speed ​​threshold of 320 kilometers per hour
✅153 kilometers of viaducts completed
✅295.5 kilometers of wharf construction has been completed

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— Ashwini Vaishnaw (Modi’s family) (@AshwiniVaishnaw) March 28, 2024

Ballastless track or “slab track” is becoming increasingly popular on high-speed lines in some countries. It is worth noting that this is the first time that the J-plate ballastless track system has been used in India. The innovative track system uses prefabricated track panels carefully equipped with fasteners and rails.

The slab sits on an RC track bed of approximately 300mm thickness and is constructed on-site (on-site) for the separate up and down track lines on top of the viaduct. The width of the RC track bed is 2420mm to ensure stability. National High Speed ​​Rail Co., Ltd. (NHSRCL) said.

“High-speed rail projects must be viewed from the perspective of an integrated economy. Among the first corridors being built by Indian Railways, Mumbai, Thane, Vapi, Vadodara, Surat, Anand and Ahmedabad — All these economies will become one economy. So you can have breakfast in Surat, go to Mumbai to do your work and come back in the evening with your family,” Mr. Vaishnaw told NDTV Indian of the Year on March 24 said at the award ceremony.

The estimated cost is Rs 108 crore, of which the Center has pledged Rs 10,000 crore and Gujarat and Maharashtra will provide Rs 5,000 crore each. The remaining funds will be obtained through Japanese loans – with interest rates starting at 0.1%.