Passengers will experience the thrill of traveling under the sea for the first time in the country near thane at a maximum speed of 350Km/hr underwater. This is as a part of the upcoming high-speed train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad that is expected to be completed by 2023.
Currently, drilling of seven Km undersea route of the Ahmedabad- Mumbai rail corridor is underway to assess the soil condition of the train path. According to Railway official soil and rocks that are 70 meters underneath the sea are currently being tested as part of the geotechnical and geophysical investigation that will span 21 km between thane and virar.
The total length of the rail corridor is 508 km and will be on the elevated track in order to avoid land acquisitions and need to build underpasses. The 21 Km tunnel under the sea was proposed to protect the vegetation in the area. This survey will be followed by final location survey to mark the arrangement and exact location of the pillars under the sea on which the trains are run.
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The total estimated cost of the project is Rs 97,636 crore and a major chunk of the share i.e 81 percent of the funding for the project will come in the form of the loan from Japan International corporation agency (JICA). The loan will span across 50 years with 0.1 per cent and a moratorium on repayments up to 15 years.
The current travel time between Ahmedabad and Mumbai is seven hours and the high-speed bullet train reduces the travel to mere two hours saving precious five hours of travel time. The project is estimated to initiate in 2018 and to be completed by 2023
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