Mysuru To Chennai Via Bengaluru In Just Over Two Hours: German High-Speed Rail Technology To Make It Possible

A proposal by the German government to construct a high-speed rail corridor between Mysuru and Chennai, running through Bengaluru, will help reduce commute time by more than five hours, thus making the total travel time to two hours twenty minutes, Mint has reported.

According to the feasibility study, which was presented to the Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani by the German Ambassador Martin Ney, the track would be 435 km long and support trains with speeds of 320 kmph.

“We are expecting that we will be able to ground some passengers from airlines when they see that the travel time has been reduced so drastically. Unless one lives near to the airport, trains will be faster than airlines once this kind of high-speed rail network is introduced,” Railway Board Chairman, Ashwani Lohani stated.

The proposed track, which will involve an investment of over Rs 1 lakh crores, will run along the Chennai-Arakkonam-Bengaluru-Mysuru route. It will be 85 per cent elevated and have 11 per cent tunnels.

Indian Railways plans to build an Rs 10 lakh crores pan-India high-speed rail network, running for over 10,000 kilometres. Budget 2017 also allocated Rs 18,000 crores to the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors.