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Konkan Railways is a major rail line on India's western coast connecting Mumbai to Mangalore. It runs through a very difficult terrain of Western Ghats which

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The Chenab Rail Bridge is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single-track railway line, located between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The bridge spans the Chenab River at a height of 359 m (1,178 ft) above the river, making it the world's highest rail bridge and the world's highest arch bridge.

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https://www.konkankatta.in/2016/11/the-incredible-konkan-railway-story.html
In 1984, 20 years after the line reached Apta, Prof. Dantavate sanctioned a line from Apta to Roha (opened in 1986) which would later become the starting point for the Konkan Railway, though that was not the intention then. As pressure built up, Indian Railways decided to build a line from Mangalore to Madgaon, the "easier" stretch.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/india-high-speed-rail-cmd/index.html
From their inception, India's railways have used a broader than usual track gauge of 1,676 millimeters (5 feet 6 inch) whereas the Japanese-built line will employ the worldwide "standard gauge

https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/indias-first-high-speed-project-falls-behind/
TRIAL running is expected to start on a 50km section of the 508km Mumbai - Ahmedabad high-speed line - India's first high-speed rail project - between Surat and Bilimoria in the state of Gujarat by 2023-24. However, it looks as though passengers will have to wait a lot longer than expected to travel on the entire line.

https://www.peepultree.world/livehistoryindia/story/eras/laying-the-lunatic-line
Oppressive heat,impossible terrain, unfriendly locals and disease, this is the story of how Indians fought against all odds and changed the landscape of a nation, by laying their lives on the railway line. ... that the railway line started on 30th May, 1896 and built on the backs of Indian labor, was famously named the 'lunatic line

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/12/20/why-are-indians-shunning-the-countrys-shiny-new-metro-lines
A second reason is that metro systems are best suited for longer commutes. In the Indian context, they save time only on trips of 10km or more, reckon Mr Tiwari and Mr Jain. But around three

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infrastructure/behind-the-scenes-how-indias-longest-rail-tunnel-in-kashmir-was-built/the-problems/slideshow/20907260.cms
Back in 2009, the new tunnel was then but a hole in the Pir Panjal range beyond a station called Qazigund, but it held such promise. For it would finally link the rest of India's venerable railway system — that began back in 1853, a mere half century after the first public railway opened in Britain — to the Kashmir Valley's very first line, over 150 years later.

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The Kalka-Shimla Railway is a historic narrow-gauge railway line winding through the picturesque hills of Himachal Pradesh, India. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this railway is

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The idea of establishing and expanding a railway system in India offered the most vibrant excitement in colonial mind. This excitement was reflected in the thoughts of two categories of people: those who had a romantic vision of India, often diluted by ingredients of 'civilizing mission' and those who found India as a veritable home for capitalist initiatives.

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FP Explainers February 15, 2023, 15:10:59 IST. China is building a new railway route connecting Tibet and Xinjiang through Aksai Chin. This region, also termed as 'no-man's land' has been a bone of contention between the two countries since the 1950s and was at the centre of the 1962 India-China war. Advertisement.

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The fact that it was not Indians that urged the rapid construction of railways in the country, but the Chambers of Commerce of Manchester and Glasgow, and the European Chambers of Commerce at Calcutta and Bombay, underlines why the British built railways in India — to make exploitation of raw material more efficient.

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The first railway completed in India was a 33.79 km long line of track running between Bombay and Thane, which opened in 1853. While seemingly a modest breakthrough, everyone knew that it was the prelude to a revolution - a pan-Indian Railway network. In 1845, the East Indian Railway Company was formed with the objective of building a line

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It is impossible to overlook Jamalpur when it comes to the history of Indian Railways. This was where the EIRC [East Indian Railway Company] established its first railway workshop, in 1862.

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These writers ranged from big names like Rudyard Kipling to lesser-known ones such as J.W. Best, an Indian Forest Service officer. Railway magazines of the time (each railway company in British

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The Impossible Railroad. At the turn of the 20th century, during the great era of railways, each city on the western seaboard of the North American continent needed a fast and reliable supply line from the east to ensure growth and prosperity. San Diego was a small port city at that time and business pioneers decided that for the city to grow

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/is-the-indian-railways-stretched-beyond-its-capacity/article66972873.ece
In a conversation moderated by Maitri Porecha, Mahesh Mangal and Sudhanshu Mani discuss whether the Indian Railways is stretched beyond its capacity. Edited excerpts: When maintenance works of the

https://reconasia.csis.org/how-britians-colonial-railways-transformed-india/
The railways built during India's colonial times provided the enormous nation with unlimited connectivity and vital transportation. ... The Bengal-Nagpur line, for example, was built with funds from the Rothschild family but the British government decided that their guaranteed profits should be paid by an extra tax on the local peasantry

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The speed of trains has been stagnant in the 48 years since 1969, when the Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express (maximum speed 130 kmph) was introduced. Now, the Railway Board wants to crash into the club of countries with High Speed Rail (HSR) lines that carry the famous bullet trains (the trains got the name because the nose of the aerodynamically

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That's why it's best-remembered as Frank Murphy's Impossible Railroad. This mighty railroad line wasn't Murphy's first challenge. A few years earlier, he built the famous Peavine from Ashfork to Phoenix, linking the capital city with the Santa Fe mainline in Northern Arizona. Later he ran a line from Prescott to Mayer.

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Briefly mention about the beginning of Railways in India. Discuss whether Railways aimed to serve the interests of the British and any modernisation was not the outcome of deliberate policy, but incidental. Answer: In 1831-32, the idea of railway construction was put forward in India. The first train ran between Mumbai and Thane in 1853.