L&T Construction wins 116-km long MAHSR contract

The Railways wing of L&T Construction has secured a contract from the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) to construct 116 km of High-Speed Ballastless Trackworks (Package No: T3) for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) Project. The scope of the MAHSR T3 Package includes design, supply, construction and testing & commissioning of track works on a Design-Build lump sum price basis for the double line high-speed railway between Vadodara and Sabarmati in Gujarat where the Japanese Shinkansen track technology will be adopted in the project.

Upon completion, this slab track system will enable trains to travel at speeds of up to 320 KMPH. It may be recalled that L&T is the country's leading player in the domain of Ballastless track possessing expertise across various types of Ballastless track forms including Plinth Track, Slab Track, Low Vibration Track, Floating Slab Track, PORR Type Pre-cast Slab Track and now Shinkansen Type Precast Slab Track System.