Last leg of Western Freight Corridor likely to be operational by month end | India News

The entire 1,506-km Western Dedicated Freight Corridor will be operational soon as its final 102-km stretch nears completion. This significantly increases the speed of freight trains along the already operational Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. The Railways is now planning a new 2,150-km corridor connecting Dankuni to Surat, designed for fast, high-capacity bulk transport.

New Delhi: The last leg of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) – a 102-km stretch from Vaitarna-JNPT in Maharashtra – is scheduled to be completed and trains will start running by month-end, railway officials said. With this, the entire 1,506-km WDFC will become operational.The entire 1,337-km Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) connecting Sonanagar in West Bengal to Sahnewal in Punjab is already operational. Overall, about 96.4% of the two corridors have been completed. The average speed of freight trains on the two dedicated corridors is over 50 kmph, which is twice the speed of freight trains on the railway network.In view of the completion of the two freight corridors, the Railways has started fine-tuning the plan for the new 2,150 km Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) connecting West Bengal’s Dankuni to Gujarat’s Surat, which will pass through six states — Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra and West Bengal. The project to move high-capacity bulk corridor trains was announced in this budget.The new corridor will merge with it Indian Railways The maximum design speed of the network and corridors at 29 stations will be 100 kmph.