“The integration is also planned Navi Mumbai subway“said a senior rail official.
With the average speed of the proposal bullet train Estimated at 320 km per hour, the 711 km distance between Hyderabad and Mumbai can be covered in less than three and a half hours.
This distance now takes more than 15 hours with existing trains, which run at speeds between 80 km per hour and 120 km per hour, with many stops between the two cities. A fast train between Mumbai and Hyderabad is the Hussain Sagar Express which takes less than 14 hours.
This will be the third high-speed rail project involving Mumbai. Currently, the executing agency, National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC), is tasked with the 508 km Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail link project. The other Mumbai project is the proposed 753 km Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur corridor.
The NHSRC has proposed six corridors spanning 4,109 km, the remainder being Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru (435 km), Delhi-Varanasi (865), Delhi-Ahmedabad (886 km) and Delhi-Amritsar (459 km).
A senior railway official said: “Space is a problem in Mumbai and therefore we are looking at Navi Mumbai for the terminal station of the Mumbai-Hyderabad corridor. Even there, land may not be a problem as we can plan a Metro station on the airport ground. No final decision has yet been made. ”
But one problem is that the state government has shown no zeal in acquiring land for the section of the corridor that falls into Maharashtra.
One official said: “The thing to understand is that the Mumbai-Hyderabad project may not face many hurdles as it offers connectivity to major stations in Maharashtra such as Lonavala, Pune, Pandharpur and even Solapur. Mumbai Main Grouse The Corridor of the bullet train from Ahmedabad is offering connectivity between major cities in Gujarat compared to Maharashtra. ” A significant part of the corridor, 349 km out of the total 508 km, falls in Gujarat.
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