Railways to work on new bullet train corridors in North, East and South as proposed in BJP manifesto

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With Golden quadrilateral of high speed train network in mind, Vaishnaw says Railways to work on new bullet train corridors in North, East and South as proposed in BJP manifesto The government proposes to expand the coverage of high-speed trains, laying the ground for them to run on new routes along the lines of the golden quadrilateral highway network.

The golden quadrilateral is a diamond-shaped network of highways connecting northern, eastern, southern and western India. The next expansion of high-speed trains includes plans to develop and manufacture these trains domestically in collaboration with the Japanese, who are also building the Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail network.

In an interview, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Bharatiya Janata Party in its general election manifesto had promised three new corridors for high-speed trains, and that the government now planned to start work on this. “When you start a complex project, there has to be a huge, steep learning curve.

That learning curve has to be for the government organisation, for the industry, for designers, for people who are actually constructing it. So, after three years of starting construction on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad project, that learning curve is now already done and absorbed, and we are now confident of designing it." “In the BJP manifesto, we had clearly mentioned that there would be three new corridors - one in the North, one in the East and one in the South.

We will start working on it now. The new corridors may use indigenously designed bullet trains as we have the confidence of developing our own technology, probably in collaboration with Japan, who have one of the best technologies for bullet trains," the