The first glimpse of India’s bullet train, which is set to run between Ahmedabad, India and Mumbai, was unveiled by the Ministry of Railways, New Delhi. It offers a glimpse of the ambitious project.
The Ministry of Railways has installed a picture of the high speed train at Gate Number 4 of its building. The display shows the design of the high-speed train.
“A picture of the first proposed bullet train in the country has been displayed at Ministry of Railways. The picture was installed at Gate Number 4”, Indian Railways announced in a news release cited by the news agency
, ANI . The bullet train will be India’s first high speed rail service. MUMBAI-AHMEDABAD BULLLET TRAIN CORRIDOR. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail is scheduled to begin on August 15, 2020. Once the train is operational, it will drastically reduce travel times between the two major cities. The first glimpse of India’s debut bullet trains surfaced after the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited said that the first Tunnel Boring Machine(TBM) cutterhead was lowered at Vikhroli (in Mumbai’s east suburbs) for the construction a tunnel in the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project. The 350-tonne, 13.6-metre-diameter cutterhead that was lowered by NHSRCL on Sunday marks the end of the primary assembly process for the TBM’s main shield. This is part of the project to build a high-speed rail corridor. Two TBMs weighing more than 3,000 tonnes each are being assembled to construct a 16-km segment of the 21 km-long Mumbai Tunnel. The release said that the stretch includes a 7 km undersea railway tunnel beneath Thane Creek. This will be India’s first underwater rail tunnel.
The TBMs have been the largest machines for rail tunnel building in the country. The cutterhead was designed to excavate one tunnel large enough to accommodate the up and down lines on the bullet train corridor. NHSRCL was quoted by PTI
as saying that the 350-tonne component was delivered to the site in five separate shipments. It was then assembled using 1,600 kg of high precision welding. The release states that a stretch of approximately 6 km from Vikhroli Complex to Bandrakurla Complex (BKC) is being carved out with the TBM. The tunnel will pass under densely populated areas and the Mithi River before reaching the Mumbai bullet train station, which is currently being constructed at BKC.
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(With inputs from agencies).
Published on:
, May 18, 2026 at 17:19 IST.
