NHSRC starts work on Hyderabad-Mumbai bullet train

The National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) has initiated the groundwork on the construction of high-speed rail corridor between Hyderabad and Mumbai. The bullet train proposal has reached the final stage of Google mapping for route survey/construction. An aerial survey will begin soon and will be completed within a month. Pillars are currently being built from Navi Mumbai to Hyderabad for GPS-based aerial survey. Recently, the construction of pillars between Vikarabad and Tandur has also been completed. The construction of the high speed rail corridor will commence after the completion of the technical process. The construction work on the corridor between the two cities will take at least three to four years. The bullet train on these tracks will travel at a speed of 320 km per hour and will take about three and a half hours to cover 711 km distance to reach Mumbai from Hyderabad as currently trains from Hyderabad to Mumbai take 13 to 14 hours. Meanwhile, the NHSRC has completed 4,109 km on 6 corridors across the country. These corridors include Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Nagpur, Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore, Mumbai-Hyderabad, Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Ahmedabad and Delhi-Amritsar, NHSRC.