High Speed Rail Corridors
Railway Budget 2014-15 included setting up of Diamond Quadrilateral Network of High Speed Rail
connecting major metros and growth centres of the country. Accordingly, Government envisages having a Diamond
Quadrilateral Network of High Speed trains comprising of four sides i.e. (i) Delhi-Mumbai, (ii) Mumbai-Chennai,
(iii)...
more... Chennai-Kolkata, (iv) Kolkata-Delhi and both diagonals i.e. (v) Delhi-Chennai and (vi) Mumbai-Kolkata. The total
length of network will be approx. 10,000 km.
Following High Speed Corridors have been identified for which pre-feasibility studies are underway/have
been completed:
(i) Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad (650 kms)
(ii) Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna (991 kms)
(iii) Howrah-Haldia (135 kms)
(iv) Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijayawada -Chennai (664 kms)
(v) Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram (850 kms)
(vi) Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur (591 kms)
(vii) Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar (450 kms)