Railway unveils Rs.638-cr new rail line

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NITI Aayog has recently cleared the construction of a 4th line between Nagpur and Wardha in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra at an investment of Rs.638 crore, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said, claiming that the project, involving building 78.87 km of tracks will also comprise 147 bridges (2 important, 12 major, and 133 minor bridges), 8 RoBs and 4 RuBs in the section. Work of construction of 3rd line on this section is already sanctioned and laying track and other works are currently in full swing. Wardha-Nagpur section is common to High Density diagonals i.e. North-South and East-West and with construction of this line, flow of passenger and goods traffic will be smooth. This section is one of the most busy and important sections in Central Railway, as this section caters the traffic of 2 important Trunk routes viz. Chennai –Delhi (North- South) Grant trunk route and Mumbai–Kolkata (East-West) trunk route, he added.

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