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Dedicated general to track the progress and work related to Mumbai - Ahmedabad HSR and other planned or in planning routes.

About NHSRCL

National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) was incorporated on 12th February 2016 under the Companies Act, 2013 with an object to finance, construct, maintain and manage the High Speed Rail Corridor in India. The Company has been modelled as ‘Special Purpose Vehicle’ in the joint sector with equity participation by Central Government through Ministry of Railways and two State Governments viz. Government of Gujarat and Government of Maharashtra.

Website: https://www.nhsrcl.in/en/home

Feb 2025 Update of the Ahmedabad Mumbai HSR Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTUQlj0B28[embed]

>most of the track has viaduct completed

>sound barrier done

>stations are under work

>tracks are being laid at few section to have trial run by next year

>Partial track open for public by 2026-27

>Final date of completion around 2028 for entire section

>>18(OP)

various planned route for HSR in India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-speed_railway_lines_in_India

>>19

Video of tracks being laid on the completed viaducts for HSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai%E2%80%93Ahmedabad_high-speed_rail_corridor

Wiki for Mumbai Ahmedabad 500km HSR line. It is expected to either operate E-5 or E-10 variants of shinkansen trainsets.

Taiwan's remaining sugar cane railway

https://x.com/shengwel_teng/status/1894545918243860782[embed]

kino pic from taiwan. we will witness such events with our HSR too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh-x44zEc4[embed] amazing kino by "@Trains Of India" on the under construction test track of 60km in Rajasthan for trainsets upto speed of around 230kmph.

I guess that when they can have normal vande bharats tested for top speed of 220kmph - shinkansen 0 had similar speed.

For higher speed trainsets, they are saving the cost by using BEML 250kmph average speed and 280kmph top speed trainset - tested on the HSR line.

Now contract is with BEML by ICF chennai, october 2024, design should be out by this year end and they are supposed to deliver i think 1 out of 2 trainsets atleast by 2026 end.

Interesting times ahead. If all things go well, in 2026 we will witness

>tejas mk2 first flight

>our own hsr indigenous trainset first reveal - trial run.

Something more bout the bhach.

>>52

China's CR450 with operational speed of 400kmph.

One of the big gripe i have with our HSR program is that our baniyagiri not realizing the long term consequences of starting now.

Should have started the parallel program from delhi to amd, delhi to varanasi, bangalore-chennai-hyderabad. a part of those connecting from mumbai - pune to east most region of mumbai.

one to go from one strip of kerala to the other end.

>>19

Why does everything goes more for north and not south like proposed projects have more in north and only two in south while south does contribute more and still south dont have railway connectivity as much as north have, and in karnataka most of the district has no connctivity to other districts

https://x.com/JREast_News/status/1896795732088365132[embed]

JR East on twitter,

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We will develop the next-generation Tohoku Shinkansen train (E10 series) ✨

＼

JR East will begin designing the next generation Tohoku Shinkansen trains, which will replace the E2 and E5 series Shinkansen trains ❕

The trains for which design is currently underway are scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2027 and undergo running tests, with the aim of starting commercial operation in fiscal year 2030 🌸⛰️

The next generation of Tohoku Shinkansen trains will feature an improved version of the TRAIN DESK, and the interior space and seating services will be designed to provide a more comfortable travel environment 💺

A baggage door will be installed in car 5 to allow for smoother loading and unloading, increasing the flexibility of the Hako Bun service, such as allowing for loading and unloading of baggage at intermediate stations 📦

[Blocked URL: https://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2024/20250304_ho03.pdf]

E10 is likely to be used in AMD-Mumbai hsr.

>>73

Mostly geography issue here. The HSR routes are good.

Okay so BEML sent out tenders for their HSR train which is under work, apart from usual blimp and bluffs.

You can notice kino side skirt.

>250kmph operational speed

>280kmph peak

>>179

>engine

>engine

>shinkansen

are you joking saars.

India is yet to have capability to make aluminum trainsets, we can build the freight train - just in 2023 or so we started building them using aluminum.

Latest work is this >>164

But it will take time to materialize so learning from that and our own effort we can have something until then shinkansen is a great option.

E-5 most likely and E-10 may get inducted.

>>188

>You are coping dyaush and you know it. They are just taking a shortcut instead of developing own shit because they want the fastest and they want it now.

It's more complicated. If they go for alstom, or any other company for trainsets equivalent to vande bharat i would have chimped out.

MAHR project is fully funded by Japan at very miniscule interest rate, one of the pre-requisite was that we will have to use the shinkansen technology.

Vande bharat is not really mature enough to be used for HSR. It is kinda following shinkansen route but slowly

>Vande bharat chair car (CC) version 1 : 2 prototypes built - tested for 180kmph - operational speed of 160kmph

Also engine is misnomer here since it's an EMU there's no single engine. Hence it's more efficient compared to the other passenger trains using engines like Wag7, wag9 etc. etc.

>Vande bharat CC v2 - Hard fought and win - improvements over v1 and speed is same

75 units build. Made VB project success. I was a student and i remember scavenging videos of the two vande bharat - feeling sad that project might not work out. But this is where hope turned to reality. Mudi gave a speech and stated that they will build 75 units of VB in record time - a bit delayed but it did happen. 75 trainsets in 3 or so years.

>Vande Bharat Sleeper

200 units are to be built - tender out and production has started.

Indo-Russian jv (TMH-RVNL) is building 120 of these and gonna handle the maintenance for those.

BEML and Titagarh handling the production of 80 of these.

10 more were given to ICF which tendered to BEML - one of which was under trials last year we got videos etc. Looks kino af.

Top speed is still 200kmph max, tested for 180kmph.

>Vande Bharat Sleeper - 200 units - Aluminum coach

Alstom won the bid but babus cancelled it stating 'higher' cost. New bids are invited but who knows.

>Amrit Bharat

for people who want cheap but also standardization of the production. Separation of Ac and Non-ac is good imho. Don't know exact number but it will be in 100s too.

>Vande bharat metro - Namo bharat rapid rail

Full ac, unreserved rrts lite covering a distance of upto 240km or so. 60 planned. 1 operational prototype in guj.

>Vande Bharat High Speed - 250kmph operational with 280kmph peak speed - 2 prototype

Under production by BEML. Design shared earlier. It is standard gauge it can't run on the regular railway tracks (also new tracks, etc. will be needed to support a train above 180kmph anyway). It can however be operated on the MAHR line.

It's probably a backup or a test product at our end for HSR - date is around 2026 for its rollout. Let's see what BEML does.

Medha, Alstom and Beml are working on it. Primarily BEML project.

So it's not like they have discarded it all. 375+ units of vande bharat chair/sleeper under production other than metro/amrit bharat variants.

Long ago ashwani vaishnaw did entire presentation on how he wanted the vande bharat project to be, very similar to Shinkansen honestly and we are going well in that direction.

Copying pics uploaded by u/chipkali_lover from r/transitindia. He is really resourceful.

Pics are from NHRCL brochure. They are using E-5 in the renders.

My concerns now are not exactly related to the infra which is and will be ready by 2026 easily - will we have trainsets for trials upon its completion? Atleast one section will be completed.

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Some data point.

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I think r/transitindia is probably few of the only good subs related to india which are high quality along with r/isro.

Mostly carried by like one or two people. u/chipkali_lover in transit, and u/ohsin in r/isro.

>High-speed rail on fast track: Study proposes 10,000 km HSR network to transform India’s rail transport by 2035

With every kilometre of High-Speed Rail providing about five times the capacity of conventional rail, the development of HSR on the Golden Quadrilateral and its diagonals, in all about 10,000 km, may boost the capacity of rail transport significantly, a study has claimed. The study carried out by rail expert Ramakrishnan TS for think tank Infravision Foundation has advocated four HSR corridors in addition to the ongoing Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project.

India is building its first HSR corridor at 508 km between Ahmedabad and Mumbai with technical and financial help from Japan. No deadline for the project has been announced yet.

According to Ramakrishnan, the HSR is the only solution for Indian Railways given declining passenger traffic, increasing congestion, the difficulty of upgrading rail infrastructure, as well as the mixed traffic and the consequent speed differential of four types of trains along the tracks.

There are four HSR corridors, which the study has suggested to be developed by 2035.

The corridors are Delhi-Rewari-Jaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur-Ahmedabad-(Mumbai), and Chennai-Mumbai via Tirupati, Bengaluru, Tumkuru, Davangere, Dharwad, Belagavi, Kolhapur, Satara, Pune, Navi Mumbai, with a spur to Goa.

Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat-Karnal-Ambala-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jalandhar-Amritsar, and Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna-Kolkata, are the third and fourth corridors.

'There is a clear need to put HSR on the fast track given passenger preferences towards faster and luxurious modes. The rail AC travel between 2005-06 and 2022-23 increased almost 100 per cent more than the non-AC travel,' Ramakrishnan said.

'Accordingly, Indian Railways also increased the supply of AC coaches. Domestic air travel exceeded AC rail travel in 2017-18, which indicates a need for faster travel. The luxury bus travel which constitutes about 70 per cent of the total omni bus travel was about twice that of rail AC travel in 2024.

'This indicates that in the absence of rail AC tickets, passengers prefer luxury buses. The proposed fares for HSR and these modes have been on the same order, whereas the end-to-end travel time will be shorter for HSR and air,' he added.

According to the report, India's expertise with semi-HSR with the introduction of the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS)corridor of Delhi-Meerut, which can clock a maximum speed of 180 kmph on standard gauge, and the introduction of 66 Vande Bharat trains, which can clock a maximum speed of 160 kmph on broad gauge, will help India progress to HSR.

'India runs the fourth largest national railway system in the world with a track length of 135,207 km. It is the world's ninth-largest employer and the country's second-largest employer with more than 1.2 million employees.

'However, it lags behind developed countries like the USA, Germany, France, and Japan in terms of route-km per square km or route-km per million population served, which are indicators of rail connectivity,' the study said.

Ramakrishnan claimed that in other HSR countries, the development of HSR has expanded the urban connectivity much beyond what it was there before HSR. 'Even if some of the HSR corridors get huge patronage, there will be a windfall profit, which can be used to cross-subsidise conventional rail passenger transport.'

It suggested that India, which aims to become a developed economy before 2047, should have more than one option for faster travel and HSR will fulfil this.

The study noted that despite spending about Rs 15 lakh crore till 2023-24, Indian Railways has been unable to show significant progress in its throughput as the spending has been too thin across too many things.

'The spending on HSR will be targeted spending. The development of HSR will also bring opportunities to manufacture various subsystems of HSR, thereby facilitating Atmanirbhar Bharat,' the study said.

'India imports about 87 per cent of its crude oil requirements. The electric traction of HSR would decrease the oil vulnerability much more compared to aviation turbine fuel used in aircraft. HSR would contribute significantly towards the goal of a net-zero economy for India by 2070,' it added.

The study also recommended the formation of a National High-Speed Rail Technology Corporation with four tasks - demonstrate a new HSR system at 250 kmph, demonstrate an upgraded HSR system at 200 kmph, develop tilted HSR trains at a speed of 200 kmph, and radially align self-steering bogies for freight trains.

'HSR can help Indian Railways reclaim its ground as the first choice of transport,' it said.

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I got too excited and thought study was by GOI but good that we have proponents of such extensive and aggressive plans.

People will seethe but this is exactly we need. HSR cost can be reduced if we go for mass rollout - labour cost and production of raw materials favours us now later it will be a serious cost escalation issue.

>JICA and Japan’s railway companies are cooperating with the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) to train personnel for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed railway, currently under construction in India, through the ‘High-Speed Rail Core Staff Training Programme’ 🚄

https://x.com/jica_direct_en/status/1904487476116480284[embed]

Interesting, the training platform looks like E-5 trainsets.

>mfw job opening at NHSRCL

>i meet technical requirements

>but don't meet experience requirements

>>229

they want 4 years of experience

>>230

i have decent experience just not 4 years

>>232

>why on earth do you want to sit for a sarkari naukri exam?

Pay is not great but it's technical managerial role. It feels interesting.

I was curious cuz

>HSR perks

huihihui

>Babu perks and job stability

I can work on the parallel projects.

Once get into NHSRCL which is just starting, i think even if starting is tame the potential is huge.

Also technical so less kichkich hopefully. Anyway i can't apply so there's no point desu.

>>233

>And if that doesn't work tell them i sent you.

Waw,

>hello mahodaya

>swiss muslim genocide enthusiast is lobbying on my behalf

>please do the needful

i can see that working out.

Anyway if you sirs are interested https://www.nhsrcl.in/en/career/vacancy-notice please go through this.

There's one more role which doesn't have such requirements but it's not technical managerial role so i don't wanna bother. Or maybe i should...

>>234

kek i am not paying bribe for a 1.5lpm job sir

And 1.5lpm is the max amount they are paying.

>>236

Most of the roles are for electric, mech and civil branch.

There's one procurement manager role which feels like having a good potential for gibs but not interested in it.

>>238

Actually saar i am not sure about the type of exam. The one role i was interested in is highly technical and based on the information it's CBT and mostly on technical side - something which i already do hence interested.

I am not mugging any GK bs or anything.

list of vacancies ig.

https://jobapply.in/NHSRCL2025/Adv_Eng50_2025.pdf

BTW most interesting vacany is that 4 seats for HSR pilots.

They require 3 years of experience as a driver pilot in railways - after selection the they will be sent to japan for 2 years of training - almost.

https://jobapply.in/NHSRCL2025/Adv_Eng50_2025.pdf

They will be taught japanese too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex8uO1VhcbU[embed]

chinese CR400 trainset which can reach peak speed of 400kmph

1300km covered in just 3hrs maybe 50 more mins.

imaging going from delhi to bangalore in comfy trainss a

MUDIIIIIIIIII BLAAADYYY MAKETRAINS NATIONAL PRIORITY!!!!!

>>275

hope so.

>>257

on other note, what are the benefits of dipping your face in the ice cold water?

>World’s Longest Bridge (320~ km) Under Construction for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project

By u/chipkali_lover in r/transitindia - probably one of the few good indian subreddits with actual experts. Apart from r/isro.

>japan agreed to give away E5 series trainsets for free

lmao wtf

I haven't read the atricle so placing it here as a placeholder

>>369

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/15/companies/india-high-speed-railway-shinkansen/

Here's the article. Basically we are gonna buy E10 series - first time new set of trainsets which will be launched simultaneously in japan and outside it. Obviously we are paying good money.

part of the deal was probably tech etc. for E5 and E3 ones - which we are probably looking to indigenize and use in Vande bharat trainsets. Very interesting.

>>371

So based on the article, apart from what i wrote earlier.

>be indian gormint

>see japanese trying to overcharge for a 15 year old design & negotiation delay

>ask the navaratna companies to start parallel HSR project on the basis of vande bharat

>even though speed will be limit to 280kmph it was enough to send panic among gooks

>japanese calculate the risk and reward

>it's better to have a country with goal of upto 20k km of HSR lines as a customer in long term than fight over petty old design

>japanese offer E5 and E3 series for free of cost as Dr. Yellow

>India agrees to buy E10 series of latest trainsets once they are ready for production by 2030

>japanese are also probably gonna help for BEML development

>Dr. Yellow version of E3 and E5 will be available in early 2026

>BEML trainset most likely ready by 2027

>Gujarat section ready by 2027

>we will have indigenous HSR running by 2027 on the MAHR route

>in 2030 we will have E10 trainsets.

Only thing is i am sensing approval for extra extension from Ahmedabad to Delhi, hopefully something for Bangalore - Chennai and Hyderabad.

Maharashtra gormint can on its own fund their own HSR going from Pune to eastern region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Yellow about dr. yellow trainsets

why dont they make the air travel cheaper and more accessible instead

who tf even likes train. Imagine sharing the loo with 100 others

>>381

Shut up bihari

>>379

1000 crore ki country me air travel ke sapne

>kek

>>379

There are very inherent cons with air travel when it comes to India

>we do not manufacture any major aeroplane so billions of import (that's exactly what Air India and Indigo did btw, largest purchases in the world rn)

>we do not have natural resources for jet fuel which means billions of worth of import

>airports are not present within the city, rather outskirts of it

>airports are generally not a great medium for distance lower than 550km let alone lower distance.

For reference, MAHSR connects 12 stations within 500km and many of them are part of the multi modal connectivity which means you board off from the metro you can go to the station get ticket and travel 500km away if you feel like at pretty fast speed. Easy of travel is way better in this case.

>2hrs+ of commute to airport then 1hr into whole process if you are lucky, etc. is not a good experience.

Though they are not useless. And air travel in India is really cheap. And GOI had already been working on the scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDAN which resulted in lots of districts, tier 2 and tier 3 cities being part of the regional connectivity so that's happening too.

HSR is a good alternative for a distance even say upto 700km. But in china we can see that despite air travel availability people prefer HSRs - they are very hasslefree. In a way we can have both.

Also technology from HSR diffuses into our normal train services eventually we will have 250km as a norm speed across all major routes while 320kmph+ on dedicated HSR routes.

Railway already has been upgrading tracks to support 130kmph to 160kmph.

Also don't derail the thread.

March Progress Report of HSR

Almost 300km+ of longest viaduct in India.

Real kino videos.

For a second i got lost in the thought of going 320kmph+ passing through vast land of India - so much kino which we can have.

Unironically we should be pursuing hsr at war scale with 20,000km+ goal in next 30 years. Complete vertical assembly - or the way we do right now too. 500bn usd worth of investment spread of 30 years is pretty good desu.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0gBQC2OKs[embed] youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9PbYE15_WQ[embed] Why is HSR better alternative to Air travel.

>>18(OP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m3eOstD30A[embed] 5 hour long kino of French TGV

One thing i was pleasantly surprised by was how good spanish HSR infra is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VyQ_eOuEk[embed] Beijing to Honkong HSR sleeper journey

Our trains don't have the same finish - partly because ICF still uses the old style of metal work and partly because we use do not use aluminum. I hope BEML etc. and other JVs change that.

Our Sleeper trainset of VB is still not operational for public usage, railway babus truly are incompetent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41r3RDNGRN0[embed]

Meanwhile more info on our HSR

>expected to complete track laying on entire area

>4 construction base - same task has been initiated

steps,

>bring track - rails

>build track slabs

>bring track slabs on top of the viaducts

>use temp rail to lay down the track slabs - completed the camp filing then fasten the tracks

>>431

300km viaduct work has completed in Gujarat section.

Total viaduct is 465km, i think almost all of the gujarat section is done. Maharashtra section is remaining.

There's lots of tunnel, bridges (i think the guj one too), etc. which are gonna take time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliY_YyldJQ[embed] Germany's ICE series of HSR train video

One of the best thing about comparatively plain areas of europe is how little they had to use viaducts etc.

Fencing is also not as extensive.

>>445

As much as i love vande bharat, i still can't get over the fact that ICF chennai really needs to work on the fit and finish part. They are using outdated mechanisms due to which the body of VBs look so weird.

The finish compared to likes of ICE 3 or later series, or TGV is so missing.

I hope we eventually start to manufacture aluminum trainsets with tilting tech - there's plan for such vande bharat trainsets.

Railway babus need to be reigned in.

There's already order of 200 vande sleeper split b/w likes of TMH - RVNL JV Kinet and BEML x Titagarh jv. I have hopes that their work will be much better than that of ICF Chennai.

Another thing is still waiting for more design details on BEML HSR trainset.

>>447

*aluminum body based metro was for Pune

>>448

Here's the design of the Vande bharat sleeper under production of Titagarh x BHEL (sorry in previous reply i kept confusing BHEL with BEML). Total 80 of such trainsets.

Here's TMH x RVNL jv based Kinet solutions design. TMH is russian company. Okayish. There was a bit of drama around it but now it's all clear and production is on going.

Let's hope we will see atleast one trainset by them this year.

>>450

Other than 80 + 200.

ICF chennai was given order book for 10 VB Sleepers which they sub contracted to BEML. We already had one of them rolled out last year - undergoing trials since last 5 months.

It's appalling that railway babus are yet to find a route for it despite so many options - possible explanation is that government waiting for elections.

>>453

kek

Tbh i am in favour of having multiple livery for VBs.

What happened to the lines other than the Mumbai Ahmadabad one?

Delayed again. This time to December, 2029. After 2028 election.

Meanwhile, news from China is saying their expansion was maybe a mistake

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/china-massively-overbuilt-high-speed

HSR is starting to look like a mistake. We should have put that money into more inter City metro instead.

>>613

We should have invested that in creating Light Rail infrastructure. Despite good metro connectivity, navigation in cities like delhi and Mumbai is a huge task because they are massive. Trams could have solved a lot of infra problems

Summary of reply from Railway minister about HSR,

>start Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) project

>total length: 508 km

>Japan funding 81% via JICA (~₹88,000 crore)

>India funding 19% (~₹20,000 crore)

>12 stations: Mumbai, Thane, Virar, Boisar, Vapi, Billimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad, Sabarmati

>Gujarat section (Vapi to Sabarmati) target: Dec 2027

>full line (Mumbai to Sabarmati) expected: Dec 2029

>delay earlier due to land issues in Maharashtra

>now all 1389.5 hectares of land acquired

>progress so far (as of June 2025):

>₹78,839 crore already spent

>392 km piers built

>329 km girders casted

>308 km girders launched

>undersea tunnel work (21 km) has started

>all 28 civil tender packages prepared

>24 already awarded

>all environment & statutory clearances obtained

>future plans:

>NHSRCL making Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for more HSR corridors

>only if feasible + financially viable

>bullet train will have affordable fares

>aim: make it accessible to everyone, not just rich folks

>biggest infra project in Indian rail history

>tech-heavy, high risk, high reward

https://sansad.in/getFile/loksabhaquestions/annex/185/AS54_7WACnw.pdf PDF

>>615

>bullet train will have affordable fares

>aim: make it accessible to everyone, not just rich folks

Horrible idea. Not only will it run at a massive loss, it will be overrun by dehatis.

>>616

Not that cheap anon, similar to rajdhani tier.

>>615

https://sansad.in/getFile/loksabhaquestions/annex/185/AS54_7WACnw.pdf?source=pqals in case link doesn't work.

>>617

Maybe at the start. Then just wait till some dehati poltician comes along with demands for it to be cheaper.

China will allow TBM to be exported again. How much does this change?

By the time India finally gets HSR the world will have already moved on to wormholes and flying cars

>>669

Always you retarded blackpiller act smart when you know fuck about the subject matter

>>670

The intricacies of HSR technology may be lost on me but I have a vague idea of how much it will cost and whether the country can afford it or even if it could, would the netas consider it given their only goal is to win the next election.

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>>671

Then again remember the vande bharat gimmick and have a few guesses what the netas will parade in front of you guys calling it "high speed railways"

>>671

>>672

This is your brain on lolbertarian NIMBYism.

>>673

The truth is that India and co are barely keeping afloat. India is a poor country and will continue to remain a poor country till it finds something worthwhile to offer the world other than uber and grubhub knockoffs.

>>668

Major cause of delay are trainsets tbh, under sea work didn't start and can be caught up if there's no further delays in TBMs.

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Fuck off to >>>/b/

>>674

Literally all you incel NPCs do is repeat some literally who on twitter even when it has nothing to do with the current subject.

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>>677

This, it's pathetic that Incels actually think they are doing anything other than wasting a post in a thread with this negrofaggotry, the same way they waste oxygen. Same old random string of repetitive words in name of a sentence. Half of time shit is not even relevant to the topic. Literal nitwits.

>>699

Absolute kino, look at the happiness on the face of mudi chan. I hope they manage to extend this to the point that we could travel from far south to far north some day. A nashun where people will visit different zones daily and grow to love and respect it.

This reminds me >>700

Japan did this thing where they reogranised a lot of tracks that are available to make sure they were heavily optimised and took much less time than before. I feel like this is something that can be done atleast on a state level.

They should start with Gujarat and see if that helps in cutting down time. It would give us necessary frame work to see if we can simply do something better for less developed states like Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, etc etc.

If I had a choice I would start working on these from far north and far south ends. Progress slowly towards the center everyday, and make sure they eventually connect and all of it comes together.

>>703

A subcon that allows us to literally go to entire different region, each with its own asthetics will be absolute kino. So many resources will be so easily moved from one place to another, which will be including cheap labour. Imagine being a le to do labour or work in Chennai and going back to Jammu, and getting full sleep still. That would be peak Bharata.

>>704

It's a slow dream but we are most definitely now heading there. India having a High Impact High Speed Rail itself was something people would have nay sayed a decade or two decades ago. Here we are, here we stand. .

Hell i shall look into which regions of India do not have train tracks that can benefit from it. That will be nice too.

>>708

>If we push for we can have 5000km hsr lines by 2035 itself.

Holy fucking kino!

>>717

Land procurement is the big delay not construction