The first UP –Train on Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor’s newly built 359 km Bhaupur- Khurja section commenced as a trial run
The first UP –Train on Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor’s newly built 359 km Bhaupur- Khurja section commenced as a trial run goods train today i.e 10.12.2020. The first coal- loaded UP train 32623 NPSB comprising 59 wagons having a tonnage of 4893 tonnes ran Bfor Nabha Power House.
The 359 km Khurja – Bhaupur section in Eastern DFC
This important section is situated in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh is built at a cost of Rs 5,750 crores. This section is funded by the World Bank. The New stations in this section are Bhaupur, Kanchausi, Achalda, Ekdil, Bhadan, Makhanpur, Tundla, Hathras, B Daudkan & Khurja. Some of the important Industrial Areas that straddle this section are Aligarh, Khurja, Firozabad and Agra. In this stretch 68 Level Crossings have been eliminated augmenting speed and safety. The section has 19 Major Bridges, 414 Minor Bridges, 7 Rail Fly Overs. M/s Tata – Aldesa JV was responsible for Civil Work and M/s Alstom for System Work.
The Indian Railways is the lifeline of the nation. To make India to have five trillion Economy it is essential to develop transport network at the same pace. Development of transport infrastructure will give major fillip for the growth of industries, commerce, export and import.
DFCCIL has been set up as a special purpose vehicle to undertake planning, development, mobilization of financial resources, construction, maintenance and operation of Dedicated Freight Corridors. In the first phase the organisation is constructing the Western DFC (1504 Route km) and Eastern DFC (1856 route km including PPP section of Sonnagar-Dankuni Section. The EDFC starting from Sahnewal near Ludhiana (Punjab) will pass through the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand to terminate at Dankuni in West Bengal. The Western Corridor connecting Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru
Port (JNPT) in Mumbai will traverse through the states of UP, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharshtra of WDFC & EDFC (excluding the Sonnagar – Dankuni PPP section) i.e. 2800 route Km will be commissioned by June 2022
