Chennai–Mysuru high-speed rail corridor

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Chennai–Mysuru High Speed Rail Corridor
Overview
StatusDPR to be prepared
Owner
overhead catenary
Operating speed320 km/h (200 mph)
Route map

Legend
Chennai
Poonamallee
Arakkonam
Tamil Nadu
Andhra Pradesh
border
 Chittoor
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
border
Bangarapet
Bengaluru
 Channapatna
Mandya
Mysuru
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The Chennai-Mysuru high speed rail corridor is India's third high-speed rail project after the Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor and Delhi Varanasi High Speed Rail Corridor. The 435 km HSR corridor will connect Chennai to Mysuru through 9 stations.

History

In 2013,

Bengaluru, and was conducting talks with his counterparts in Japan about the topic.[2]
He commented that the journey could be done in less than two hours, though no studies had yet been conducted prior to those words.

A feasibility study by China on the project was submitted to the Federal Government in June 2015.[3] While Germany also proposed to conduct its own feasibility study at the same time.[4] The then Railways Minister, Suresh Prabhu, suggested that the route would be one of the next high-speed railways to be implemented in India.[5]

Japan Railway Technical Service (JARTS) and Oriental Consultants submitted a feasibility study in early 2016 about constructing the high-speed railway line through a PPP with the government.[6] French state-owned company SNCF also expressed an interest in building a high-speed railway line too.

In early 2017, Indian Railways (IR) responded to a proposal by Elon Musk for a Hyperloop to connect the two cities in thirty minutes, saying that it would be unlikely due to government bureaucracy.[7]

During the June 2017 opening of Bengaluru's Green Line Metro, Japan’s Ambassador to India, Kenji Hiramatsu, suggested that the railway line should be built with support from Japanese development funds.[8]

Description

The high-speed railway line would mainly be built alongside the existing railway between the two cities. However, a 38-kilometre long (24 mi) viaduct between Bangarapet and Vaniyambadi, as well as a 44-kilometre long (27 mi) viaduct between Katpadi and Arakkonam, would need to be constructed due to hilly terrain.[9]

There would be two new railway stations built underground in Chennai and one at Bengaluru, would witness the high-speed trains, running at around 320 km/h (200 mph)[9]

Stations

The Chennai Mysuru high speed rail corridor is planned to have a total of nine stations.[10]

Project status

2018

  • November: German government submitted a feasibility study to the Railway Board[11]

2020

  • June: Indian Railways sanctioned the feasibility studies for the corridor[12]

2021

  • February: Aarvee-GSL awarded the contract for Chennai-Mysuru HSR's LiDAR & Alignment Design contract.[citation needed]

2022

  • July: Infrastructure Minister of Karnataka, V. Somanna reveled that the centre had asked NHSRCL to submit the DPR to implement the project. The state government held a high level meeting and discussed about alignment going through the upcoming 10-lane Bengaluru-Mysuru highway. While the state government is set to provide the land, the centre will bear the entire project's cost.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Railway Budget 2021: Indian Railways to focus on new bullet train networks in coming years?". The Times of India. 23 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Karnataka to operate bullet trains from Bangalore to Mysore and Chennai". Railway Technology. 18 September 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Projects: Chennai-Bangaluru-Mysore". High Speed Rail Corporation of India. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Study of High Speed Rail Project from Germany on Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru sector". Mysuru Today. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Suresh Prabhu promises new bullet train routes". dna. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  6. ^ "(untitled)". Construction Intelligence Center. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Chennai to Bangalore in Just 30 minutes - Hyperloop's high-speed train headed to India". Detechter. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. ^ DH News Service (18 June 2017). "Japan pushes for B'luru-Chennai high-speed rail". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Bangalore to Chennai Bullet Train". Webeo Transportation. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  10. ^ Agarwal, Anshu (22 February 2021). "Aarvee-GSL Wins Chennai-Mysuru HSR's LiDAR & Alignment Design".
  11. ^ "Chennai-Mysore via Bengaluru in 2 HRS 25 mins! Germany proposes bullet train; submits study to Indian Railways". 23 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Wow! Indian Railways eyes 7 more bullet train corridors; all will be open to PPP investments". 21 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Mysuru-Chennai high-speed rail: Govt. to acquire land". Star of Mysore. 30 July 2022.
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