Bullet Train in India : Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train to travel under the sea

[Sarkar]

well, if we can pay money to the Japanese at the correct time, they ll make it by 2022, as it has to be made by Japanese not Indians

shelling out 1.10 lakh crores wont be an easy task :no:

Japanese are already Giving loan to us loan for our Railway's Dedicated freight corridor from long time(from 2008 I think) , so they know we can pay them back so they will give money anyway but we cannot complete that work in time bcoz of land and environment issue

 

[Sam7795]

Please edit Thread title to "Bullet Train India News and Updates."

 

[Sarkar]

All you need to know about India’s first bullet train


India’s first bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai will run at a maximum speed of 350 km per hour, covering the 508-km stretch in under three hours.

The ambitious project, which was today launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, would cost around Rs. 1.10 lakh crore. Japan is giving a loan of Rs. 88,000 crore for the project at a minimal interest of 0.1 per cent.

The government wants to start the services of the proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Network, commonly known as the bullet train on August 15, 2022 to mark India’s 75th year of Independence.

The bullet train would run at an average speed of 320 km per hour and at a maximum speed of 350 km per hour. It will stop at 12 railway stations on the route but only for 165 seconds each. A 21-km-long tunnel will be dug between Boisar and BKC in Mumbai, of which seven km will be under water.

The railways will only require around 825 hectares of land for the project as 92 per cent of the route will be elevated, six per cent would go through tunnels and only the remaining two per cent would be on the ground.

The railways would run about around 35 bullet trains when it starts operation with about 70 trips per day. The number of trains would be increased to 105 trains in 2050.

Initially, the train would have 10 coaches with a total seating capacity of 750 passengers. Later, it is proposed to have 16 coaches with a seating capacity of 1,250 passengers.

The train would have two categories of seats — executive and economy — with the prices comparable with the base AC 2-tier fare of the Rajdhani Express.

In the initial days, around 1.6 crore people are expected to travel by the train annually, adding that by 2050, around 1.6 lakh commuters would be travelling by the high-speed train on a daily basis.

The train would require a cleaning time of four hours, after running for 20 hours.

All you need to know about India’s first bullet train

 

[Sagar]

 

[Bapun]

Critics, India's Bullet Train Project Could Be the Path to the Future

 

[HOUSE-MD]

Last month when i went to Madurai the train was delayed by over 90 mins, all praise to the single track system where only one train could pass at a time so one train has to wait for the other train from the opposite direction to pass. Hope TN gets better railways.

 

[Sarkar]

Situation is more bad in North east. First there is single railway line where it is available and 2nd there is not enough road connectivity.

 

[HOUSE-MD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/908549776911691778

 

[ABCDEFGH]

Received it on Whatsapp, so take it with a pinch of salt


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What the bullet train project brings to India

....here's a quick tutorial

Of the total cost of Rs 1.1 lac crore for the train, Rs 88,000cr will be given as a loan by the Japanese govt, @ 0.1% interest rate, payable over 50 years, and moratorium of 15 years. In common parlance, it means the Indian govt doe not have to pay anything for next 15 years, and repay the loan in 35 years after that.

In economic sense, the NPV of the repayment schedule comes to ~Rs 6000cr. Basically what that means is, that the govt is paying Japan ONLY Rs 12000cr TODAY - for a loan of Rs 88,000cr. Including the remianing Rs 22,000cr - it means govt is constructing the 500km bullet train for total of Rs 34,000cr - a paltry Rs 68cr per km. To give you a perspective, an overhead metro costs Rs 100-200cr per km and underground Rs 300-500cr per km.

It is virtually a gift from Japan to India.

Now to the benefits -

20,000 construction workers will be employed for 5 years, 4,000 permanent jobs for operating it thereafter - not to mention the HUGE demand it will generate for steel, concrete and cement.

And if you want to look at long term benefits - just look at Europe (which greatly prospered from Eurail), China (which was able to grow its GDP because of mega projects like these) and Japan (virtually every major town connected today by bullet train network).

Lastly, the technology transfer in this project will enable India to build future bullet train projects on its own, at much lower cost - and maybe someday, make it for other developing countries - just like we are launchig satellites for mcuh advanced countries today!!

Now to the safety aspects -

The Indian govt could have selected the Chinese offer, which was 18% lower than Japanese quote. But the Japanese bullet train system has not reported a SINGLE accident since 1964 - as against Chinese developers. These trains run on magnetic levitation, and have in-built sensors, to safe-guard them EVEN during natural disasters like earthquake - derailing is a distant probability.

At some point, you got to take these decisions, which propel you into the next orbit - or you could wait for the entire population of this country to be lifted above the poverty line, to satisfy the argument of righteous capital allocation !!

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[HOUSE-MD]

Situation is more bad in North east. First there is single railway line where it is available and 2nd there is not enough road connectivity.

The narrow Siliguri Corridor, which at one point is less than 27 kilometres (17 mi) wide, remained as the only bridge between the northeastern part of India and the rest of the country.

A Chinese military advance of less than 130 kilometres (81 mi) would cut off Bhutan, part of West Bengal and all of North-East India, an area containing almost 50 million people. This situation arose during the war between India and China in 1962. May be this could also be a major reason for what NE to be what it is now.