Rail Analysis India March 2018 Digital Magazine | Page 110

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HSR Project
HSR Project
Having explained all this it is important to point out that the
Indian Government has not limited itself to implementing only
Shinkansen technology. • INECO and TYPSA of Spain on the feasibility study
for the Delhi-Kolkata high speed project (“Diamond
Quadrilateral”, once more)
Despite the high costs of Magnetic Levitation (MagLev)
technology (for instance the cost estimate for Japan’s
Tokyo to Osaka MagLev line is 50 billion USD), the Indian
Government issued an Expression of Interest for MagLev
technology in August 2016, for both passenger travel and
cargo transportation. The ambitious intention is to call for
technical and commercial bids at a later stage. The Ministry of
Railways has shortlisted four routes for the implementation of
MagLev: Bengaluru – Chennai, Hyderabad – Chennai, New
Delhi – Chandigarh and Nagpur – Mumbai. The expected
average speed would be 350 km/h, with a top speed of 500
km/h.
A number of foreign companies have been active on Indian
HSR projects in the last few years, and it is quite likely that
other HSR technologies will be imported into the country to
improve long distance connectivity; just to mention a few: • Spain’s Talgo on the 160 – 200 km/h trial runs on the
Delhi - Mumbai line, on the existing rail infrastructure
• Germany’s DB Engineering & Consulting Project
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