India has enlisted the help of Japanese technology, engineers and finance to assist in the construction of its first line, a 508-kilometer link between Mumbai and Ahmedabad in western India.Ī further 12 routes could gain high-speed links over the coming decades if all proposals come to fruition.įormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose in front of a high-speed train simulator in Gandhinagar, India, on September 14, 2017. Cities between 300 kilometers and 700 kilometers apart with a population of at least one million are being prioritized. Three more Dedicated Freight Corridors totaling 5,750 kilometers are planned to augment the initial pair of routes due for completion this year.īut, like Japan and China before it, India views high-speed rail as the key to reducing journey times, increase capacity and accelerate economic activity.Īn ambitious National Rail Plan, announced in 2021, envisages that all major cities in north, west and south India should be connected by high-speed rail. It’s a hugely ambitious strategy but the first DFCs are already in operation and electrification work is proceeding rapidly. India’s three-pronged solution? Create a new generation of high-speed passenger railways between major cities, construct thousands of miles of new high-capacity cargo railways known as dedicated freight corridors (DFCs) and electrify 100% of the existing network by 2024. Around a quarter of IR’s network is operating at between 100% and 150% of nominal capacity, which can create huge knock-on effects across the country when disruption occurs. Lastly from Visakhapatnam to Kanniyakumari it is hauled by WAP-7 locomotive of Electric Loco Shed, Royapuram.Beneath the Great Wall of China lies the world's deepest high-speed railway stationĬurrently, seven trunk routes totaling 16% of the overall network carry 41% of all traffic. Than it is hauled by WAP-7 Locomotive of Electric Loco Shed, Howrah from Guwahati upto Visakhapatnam. The train is hauled by WDP-4D Locomotive of Diesel Loco Shed, Siliguri from New Tinsukia to Guwahati. 2 End On Generators(Only for LHB coach).This train also passes through Sahibganj district and Pakur district of Jharkhand but it does not have any stoppages there. In the return direction the train no: 15905 leaves Kanyakumari at 17:20 PM and reaches Dibrugarh at 20:50 PM on the fifth day of the journey. The train No:15906 starts from Dibrugarh at 19:25 PM and reaches Kanyakumari at 22:00 PM on the fifth day of journey. Vivek express also holds another place in the history of Indian railways, as being the last train to halt its services, when the entire Indian railway passenger services came to standstill following the COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown in March 2020.ĭibrugarh - Kanyakumari Vivek Express joins Dibrugarh in Assam, North-East India to Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu which is the southernmost tip of India. These trains were started to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. These trains were announced in the Railway Budget of 2011-12 by the then Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. Vivek Express (now Vivek Super Fast Express) are four pairs of Express Trains on the Indian Railways network. This train is currently the longest train route in India by both distance and time, as well as the 24th-longest train service in the world. In 74 hours 35 minutes the train covers a distance of 4,218.6 kilometres (2,621.3 mi) and traverses through eight states in India.
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Dibrugarh–Kanyakumari Vivek Superfast Express is a weekly Express train of the Vivek Express series the Indian Railways which runs from Dibrugarh in India's north eastern state Assam to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu the southernmost state of India.
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