High Speed Rail

On the Financials of the Indian High Speed Rail Project

The most questions everyone seems to have about the Mumbai – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail line project seems to be about its financials, and rightly so. The 98,000 crore or 1 lakh crore (1 Trillion!) Indian Rupees or 15 Billion US Dollars (when rounded off), which the 508 km Ahmedabad-…

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Busting Some Indian High Speed Railway Myths

Most people have zero knowledge and ideas about how trains and railways work and operate and have even more so no idea what High Speed Rail (HSR) is, other than a vague notion of ultra-luxurious, smooth and gleaming futuristic-looking trains, expensive to build and maintain, traveling at high top speeds…

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Shouldn’t We Upgrade Our Existing Railway Network Instead of Building Bullet Trains?

This chapter attempts to answer the question of why we shouldn't upgrade the Indian Railway network instead of building high speed rail.

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How High Speed Rail can transform India

Despite its obvious advantages with regards to speed, capacity and environmental benefits, the general public seem to have many apprehensions when it comes to implementing high speed rail projects in India. Of course, there are a lot many people opposed to the entire concept, many because of misconceptions, some due…

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How High Speed Rail saves the environment

There are many reasons why India needs a network of very fast trains. This is not just because those gleaming, whizzing, shining marvels of technological wizardry are the most effective and efficient ways to move our large populations by cutting end-to-end travel times by as much as 80% as we…

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The Great Indian High Speed Rail Dream

Dreaming about high speed railway in India.

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What are High-Speed Railways or Bullet Trains?

What the high tech wonders that are high speed railways or bullet trains can be beneficial in the indian context

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