The corridor connects the coal fields of Jharkhand and West Bengal, such as Eastern Coalfields Limited, Central Coalfields Limited, Bharat Coking Coal Limited and Northern Coalfields Limited, to power plants in Northern India.
The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) and Indian Railways (IR) have joined hands in running a special train carrying equipment from Karambeli in Gujarat to Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, spanning 1605 km, to aid in the rescue of the trapped workers in the Uttarkashi
Talking to ANI about this corridor, CGM of WDFC, Manish Awasthi said that this infrastructure marvel hosts an impressive array of 19 major bridges, 105 minor bridges, 5 rail flyovers, 81 roads under bridges, and 6 roads over bridges.
The projects that were inaugurated include the New Bhandu-New Sanand(N) section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC); the doubling of Viramgam - Samakhiali rail line and the Katosan Road- Bechraji - Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL Siding) Rail Project.
The PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 12,100 crore in his home constituency, Varanasi, and will inaugurate the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Junction-Son Nagar railway line of the Dedicated Freight Corridor, the release said.<
Speaking during the ICRIER's release of a report on 'Express Delivery Services' in New Delhi, the minister said that the government was taking steps in this direction through massive infrastructure development through PM GatiShakti for smarter and faster planning and implementation of projec
Indian Railways has undertaken a mega-infrastructure project namely the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), comprising Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC- from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust 1506 Km) and Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor(EDFC- from Ludhiana to Sonnagar-1337 Km) co
In this report, CareEdge Ratings has analysed the imminent shift in the mode of freight movements from roadways to railways and the underlying factors facilitating the transition. A dedicated freight corridor will boost the modal shift from road to rail, the rating agency reported.
New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): Traversing the length and breadth of the country, Indian Railways is one of the largest rail networks in the world with a total route length of 68,000 kilometres.
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], April 30 (ANI): Fifteen wagons of a goods train carrying coal which was headed towards Kalanaur in Haryana derailed at the new Ekdin station of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor on Saturday morning.