Railway mulls Mumbai-Hyderabad high speed rail line

The Indian Railways is set to build a Mumbai-Hyderabad high speed rail corridor as a part of six other such rail corridors being set up in the country. National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) director Sandeep Kumar said that the high speed rail corridors are a part of creating a diamond quadrilateral by the Centre. The 711-km long Mumbai-Hyderabad corridor will connect Mumbai with Hyderabad via Pune. NHSRCL is currently executing the country's first bullet train project connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad. of the six orridors, two will be in Maharashtra and the other routes include –Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur (753 km), Delhi-Noida-Agra-Kanpur-Lucknow-Varanasi (865 km), Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad (886 km), Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysore (435 km) and Delhi-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jalandhar-Amritsar (459 km). The Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the new bullet train project is being prepared and the railway ministry has instructed that the DPRs for the high speed rail corridors be submitted by 2020. There would be a need for a bullet train between metros like Hyderabad and Mumbai as both are viable in terms of carrying passenger traffic. The bullet train is a suitable option for travelling below 1000 km while the flight is the right option for travelling beyond 1000km.