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Indian Railways’ Southern Railway(SR) zone has prepared a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for increasing the speed in the Chennai-Bengaluru Section to 160 kmph and the same has been submitted to the Railway board. Railway Board had approved-in-principle for up gradation of speed to 160 kmph in eight routes of Indian Railways networks.Â
Various Zonal Railways were nominated as Nodal Railway for preparation of Detail Project Report(DPR). Southern Railway was nominated as nodal railway for preparation of DPR for Chennai – Bengaluru (362 kms) route.
The Southern Railway zone has also submitted similarly Detailed Project Report (DPR) for Chennai – Gudur, Chennai – Renigunta sections for 160kmph are also submitted to Railway Board.
Meanwhile, Southern Railway in a statement said,” Chennai – Gudur section (134.3 Km), which is categorized as Group A Golden Quadrilateral route was authorized fit for running trains at 130 Kmph. With this, the section became the first section in Southern Railway capable of handling trains at 130 Kmph.”
Prior to the speed upgrade,a series of trial runs were conducted by Indian Railways and RDSO for assessing the fitness of tracks, traction, signals and rolling stock. And in compliance with all the requirements laid down, the section is now equipped to handle trains at 130 Kmph.
Also in another related development, Southern Railway is taking steps to increase the maximum permissible speed of trains on key routes in Tamil Nadu.
As part of systematic and planned efforts to strengthen track, traction, and signaling systems, the zone focuses on upgrading speed in the Group A and Golden Quadrilateral- Golden Diagonal (GQ-GD) routes as well as the identified Group B routes in Tamil Nadu. Group A and Group B routes are those Railway lines in which the speed can be maximum increased to 160kmph and 130 kmph respectively, as per Railway Manual.
