INDIA IS WELCOMING NEW REVOLUTION IN RAIL SECTOR
BULLET TRAIN
1 .More than four-fifths of the project’s $19bn (£14.4bn) cost will be funded by a 0.1% interest-rate loan from Japan
BULLET TRAIN
1 .More than four-fifths of the project’s $19bn (£14.4bn) cost will be funded by a 0.1% interest-rate loan from Japan
2. The high-speed line, which the government aims to launch by the 75th anniversary of Indian independence on 15 August 2022, will run from Ahmedabad, the Gujarat capital, to the financial hub of Mumbai.
3. Indian officials say the train will have a maximum speed of 217mph (350km/h), more than twice the speed of the country’s current fastest train, which runs from the capital, Delhi, to Agra at a comparably sluggish maximum of 100mph.
4. The bullet train will run at a maximum speed of 350 km per hour, covering the 508-km stretch in under three hours.
5.A 21-km-long tunnel will be dug between Boisar and BKC in Mumbai, of which seven km will be underwater.
6.It will stop at 12 railway stations on the route but only for 165 seconds each
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| PM. MODI WITH HIS COUNTERPART SHINZO ABE |
