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These carry 55% of the India Railway's freight traffic over a total 10,122 km (6,290 mi) route length. The line capacity utilisation on the existing highly saturated shared trunk routes of Howrah-Delhi on the Eastern Corridor and Mumbai-Delhi on the Western Corridor varies between 115% and 150%.
In 2022–23, Indian Railways operated 8,479 trains on average daily and transported 1418.1 million tonnes of freight. [1] Indian Railways has historically subsidized the passenger segment with income from the freight business and hence, freight services were unable to complete other modes of transport on both cost and speed of delivery ...
Indian Railways jointly operates passenger and freight services with its neighboring countries. Railway line construction, maintenance, border check point management is also carried out with partner railway agencies and other government agencies.
East-West Dedicated Freight Corridor or East-West DFC is a freight specific railway proposed from Eastern to Western India by Indian Railways. The corridor will run between Dankuni in West Bengal and Palghar in Maharashtra. [1] It was announced by then Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, while presenting the Railway Budget of India in the fiscal ...
Construction of one kilometer of high speed railway track will cost ₹ 1 billion (US$12 million) – ₹ 1.4 billion (US$16 million), which is 10–14 times higher than the construction of standard railway. [121] Indian government approved the choice of Japan to build India's first high-speed railway.
A 1975 Batch Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer, Shri Vinay Mittal, was the chairman, Railway Board (CRB) and ex officio principal secretary to the Government of India till 30 June 2013. During his long career spanning 38 years, Shri Mittal held various key positions in the Indian Railways.