Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared a video on Tuesday of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad ‘Bullet train’ corridor, which will reduce the travel time between the two cities to just 2 hours along the 508 km route.
“Stay tuned for #Bullet Train in Modi 3.0!, the minister posted on X
The video highlights some of the features of the state-of-the-art train project being built with an investment of Rs 1.08 lakh crore.
These include: The Bullet train is expected to touch a maximum speed of 320 kilometres per hour on the route. The corridor will feature a slab track system, a technology to be used Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train corridor for the first time in India. As many as 24 river bridges, 28 steel bridges, and seven mountain tunnels are being erected for the Bullet train mute. The corridor will also have a 7 km undersea tunnel. The video describes the project as “a marvel of world-class engineering” and the “future of India.”