KRC's
high-speed train to run from Sunday
Sandesh Prabhudesai
12 December 2002
India's
first high-speed train, at the initiative of the
Konkan Railway Corporation, will start its trial
runs from 15 December, on the Roha-Margao route.
The specially designed train, with
a locomotive of USA-based General Motors, will
cover the distance of around 580 kms in hardly
four hours, at the speed of 150 kilometres per
hour.
The KRC is planning to begin its
actual operation, however, from March, to mark
the closing ceremony of 50 years of Indian Railways,
state the official sources.
It will also be the first train
on the KRC route to have anti-collision devices,
the indigenous creation
of the corporation. It is presently being introduced
only on Jalandhar-Amritsar route.
Though the train will have specially
designed coaches, the same locomotive used for
the Shatabdi trains will be used here, said the
official sources. However, it will run much faster
than any Shatabdi train in India.
The KRC is also planning to introduce
self-stabilising tracks along the Konkan route,
which could bring more stability and help the
smooth running of the high-speed train.
The high-speed train will help all
the travellers travelling down from Mumbai and
back. The fastest Shatabdi on Mumbai-Goa route
presently reaches in eight hours.
While the trial runs would begin
from Sunday, the KRC is presently trying to tackle
the problem of cattle in Konkan region of Maharashtra
and densely populated Goan region, by fencing
the crucial locations, to avoid any kind of casualty.
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