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OK to start things here is an interview with Mohinder Singh Project manager of Sivok--Rangpo line(Sikkim) 12,000 cr, Dec 2024 completion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeawMv-WLwU

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Instead of overly focusing on Vande Bharat all the time(incidentally tomorrow the Madgaon--Goa to Mumbai VB will be inaugurated) why don't people focus on strategic railway projects and supercritical projects?? Here is a list: 1. Sivok--Rangpo (Sikkim) railway line what is the progress, and on to Na...

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P. Balaram was the editor of Current Science when I sent in my article. When they sent me the galley proofs for checking after peer review, I noticed that Balaram had himself done some editing and put a note saying that what I had to say was important and would be read by many people so he had tried...

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This derailment is really sad and a repeat of the horrible accident at Khanna (between Ambala and Ludhiana) some years ago. Same scenario. Golden Temple Mail speeding at 3am towards Amritsar from Mumbai central derailed due to a broken rail. Several coaches piled on to the Up line where minutes late...

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@Ramana: Fourier Analysis was staring at everyone's face I am simply amazed that Harsh Gupta et al (he was at NGRI, Hyderabad) did not do anything about it. So that was the origin of the Current Science paper of mine. I copied the graphs from Gupta et al and just computed the "area" under ...

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For completeness and historical reasons the Summary paper on the May 1998 tests https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/archives/MONITOR/ISSUE3-6/ramana.html Seismic waves that travel through the Earth's core encounter discontinuities. One of the most famous is the Mohorovicic discontinuity(in short the Moho...

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@ Ashokk thanks. Yes now all the graphs and tables are there. Interestingly the article with Ramana and Thundyil has been quoted in “stink tank” publications in that era. Jack Evernden a seismologist who Ramana and I quote in our summary paper on the Pokharan tests, on BRM, did an analysis of Raylei...

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Unfortunately all the tables and graphs that accompanied my article seem missing. Sikka seemed most impressed as to how I had taken apart Sublette's argument of using data where there was a stemming failure. He asked me if Seismology was my field and I said no but I read enough of all the events tha...

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^^^ Yes that one. One of the difficulties I remember from 20 years ago was that I had no idea what the geomorphology was under Pokharan. Toman-Nordyke due to the "Sulky" event had fixed a scaling law based on an overlay of granite and formation of a retarc(reversed crater, crater reversed ...

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This jarnail is not saying anything new that I did not know. I had written an article "Cratering Phenomenology and Yield Estimation" in 2002 for the old Bharat Rakshak Monitor. Using scaling laws and work of Nordyke and pictures of the retarc in Chengappa's book I had explicitly said the s...

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Vande Bharat is no doubt important, but the MOST important thing is to meet the goals in this internal document of the Railways. Mission 3000 million tonnes of freight by 2027 and it is full of graphs. You have to bring down the cost of logistics from 14% of GDP to 8% of GDP. See the comparison bar ...

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Any day now Sela Tunnel to Tawang should become operational. June was the month for completion of the tunnels for all weather connectivity to Tawang. Meanwhile 5 tunnels on the Chandigarh to Manali road have been thrown open for trials( as per tweet of Shri Nitin Gadkari). These are between Ot and P...

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HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE TODAY. MAIN ARM OF EDFC DOUBLE ELECTRIFIED TRACK FROM DADRI(UP) TO SONNAGAR(BIHAR) COMPLETED TODAY. With the completion today of the Ahraura Rd, to DDU(Mughalsarai) yard 27km section EDFC (Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor) is complete from Dadri (UP) to Son Nagar(Bihar). Wha...

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https://youtu.be/Q4S-gyMbv5s If the Railway Board Member Jaya Verma Sinha says Dec 2024 is the completion date for EDFC and WDFC, what the effing hell is any magazine or newspaper's credibility. And the Director operations DFC Srinivas is standing next to her in the video (on her left)while she is s...

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@Rajkumar Please do not post fake news. The DFCs are NOT going to be ready by Dec 2023. Possibly December 2024. The DFC management just makes up these deadlines and even claims false things like the Dadri to Rewari line is operational when any half brained idiot knows that it is not complete. The pr...

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RRTS (Rapid Rail Transit System) Delhi to Meerut ready for inauguration by PM Modi mid June on the priority section(Sahibabad to Duhai depot). This is on Standard gauge and runs at 160 kmph. First rapid rail transport in India. Entire section upto Meerut will be ready by Dec 2024. Priority section i...

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As I have been saying since ages: EDFC to Dankuni in WB is dead and it will only be constructed to Andal just inside the WB border from Jharkhand due to non-cooperation by WB govt. Also GoI has given up on PPP mode for the Son Nagar to Andal section and gone in for constructing the section tradition...

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Three Iconic projects of India in one frame, Someone has cut the frames out of videos I posted above and put it together. In frame 2: DB Patil International airport under construction on right, runway can be seen. WDFC in the center and Mumbai--Delhi Expressway connector to JNPT on left. https://twi...

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The Runway (South Runway) of DB Patil International Airport (Navi Mumbai Airport) is finally beginning to take shape. L&T is the contractor and operator will be Adani Group. The runway will have two taxiways in Phase I. Phase II will see construction of the parallel North runway with two associa...

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New Kanpur airport terminal inaugurated on Friday May 26th by UP CM Yogi Adityananth. The airport is a civilian enclave at HAL/IAF Chakeri and shares one runway 2800m 09-27 with the military airfield. There is a secondary runway 01-19 not used for commercial operations. ILS-CAT II has been installed...

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EDFC Progress 50 km Yamunanagar to Ambala Single line. GMR Construction. Part of Sahnewal(Ludhiana) to New Pilkhani(near Saharanpur) section. Target June 2023. This New Pilkhani to Sahnewal section will not be completed by June. There is a bypass around Ambala Cantt. That is a 25km section and track...

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Drone Journey on WDFC between Panvel and JNPT(May 2023), the section on which there is very little progress. Tata+IRCON+Mitsui were kicked out last year for non-progress but were re-instated. I am not sure even the new deadline and target of June 2024 can be met, just too much work left: https://you...

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Blowing up the Hejaz railway Damascus to Medina by TE Lawrence and the Sharifian Arab irregulars during WW1. The Turks were the enemy in WW1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5ihBv7ro4

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New Kanpur airport terminal is all ready and due to be inaugurated May 26th. The terminal structure is modeled after the Gupta era terracotta temple at nearby Bhitargaon and the local city landmark JK temple. ILS-CAT II system has been installed to prevent closure of the airport during fog season. N...

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Along with the Lucknow to Kanpur Expressway construction and Kanpur Ring road(see my post in Roads thread), rail speed between Kanpur to Lucknow is being upped to 160kmph reducing travel time between the two cities to 45 mins from the current 90mins to 120mins. Work is going on fast with automatic s...

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Kanpur Ring Road and Lucknow to Kanpur Expressway Packages 1 &4 of the 5 package 93km 6 laned Ring Road around Kanpur have been awarded. These two packages are from Northwest of Kanpur to Southeast of Kanpur. Construction begins next month June 2023. Limited access ring road with toll and top s...

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I wish they did not construct this ropeway from Govindghat to Ghangharia. Its a 23km hike and one of the many things I have done in my life which is extremely beautiful. Swift flowing streams and there is even wild marijuana growing by the side at places hehehehe. Ghangharia is the gateway to the Va...

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Second girder launched across 6 CR railway lines at Kopar to carry WDFC towards JNPT. This is on the UP line. Work done on the night of May 6-7th after taking traffic and power block and shutting down Mumbai railway system beyond Thane entirely to the rest of the country. See my post ^^^ on progress...

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Hahahaha :rotfl: These Railways were built a long time ago. People here should read some history or better watch some old time classic war movies. 1. First there was the Istanbul to Baghdad railway that was built using German money. At the start of WW1, the line was about 800km shy of Baghdad. The l...

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^^^ In my WDFC update I had said that on Surat city bypass work has been very slow by OK Tata bye bye. I had also said there is an important rail flyover where WDFC goes over the Udhna/Surat IR double line towards Jalgaon at Niyol outside Surat on this bypass. Remember DFCs never enter cities and ne...

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What do the Train Numbers Mean on Indian Railways The train numbers on Indian Railways have a meaning. For example I mentioned 12903 Golden temple mail in my post below. The first 1 means long distance, 2 means superfast so they will levy a surcharge on your ticket over some basic fare. 9 means Wes...

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Sela tunnel to Tawang to open next month June 2023. 12.4km approach road is getting readied and final finishing works going on inside the tunnel including laying the road surface inside the tunnel. A poor video which says none of this but does say the to be opened June-July or some such thing. Why d...

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Mumbai Trans Harbor Link. Starts at Sewri and ends at Nhava Sheva JNPT. Completion December 2023. Started 2018 after PILs this that and the other. There are Flamingos in the Sewri mudflats. A temporary bridge of 5.6km has been constructed for construction vehicles. This temporary bridge was to be de...

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In this video which is self-explanatory you can see 2 lines WR Virar to Dahanu and 2 lines WDFC and in addition 2 more WR lines that will carry suburban rail traffic beyond Virar to Dahanu Rd. being built and are at early stages. Totally 6 lines in the future. WDFC bridge over Vaitarna river now see...

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WDFC Update. 1. Dadri (UP) and Dadri and Tuglakabad ICD(Inland Container Depot) and Kathuwas ICD near Rewari now connected by 135 km greenfield double track WDFC line with high mast OHE for double stack container to Rewari, WDFC line operationalized. EDFC and WDFC junction and crossover at Dadri fu...

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EDFC Update Khurja to Sahnewal(Ludhiana) about 400km section. Package 1 L&T Construction Khurja to Pilkhani. 1. Khurja to New Khatauli 125 km under trial, possibly opened. 2. Track linked New Khatauli to Rohana Kalan(greenfield alignment) 3. Rohana Kalan to New Talheri Buzurg(greenfield alignme...

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The Steel Rails on the Dedicated Freight Corridors The steel rails on the EDFC and on the WDFC are of different strengths as I suddenly realized. Indian Railways has a very sensible classification system for steel rails. Let me explain. On the EDFC a lot of the steel rails was supplied by Jindal St...

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The more than a century old Pamban railway bridge connecting Rameswaram to the mainland is now permanently shut down. There is a continuous health monitoring system on this bridge installed by IIT Madras and Southern Railway. In Dec 2022, this system issued two red alerts. Corrosion on this old brid...

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Vijayawada(BZA) to Kazipet (KZJ) Triple Lining on Chennai to Delhi Trunk Route Total distance 216 km with 34 km in Telangana and 182km in AP. Operational third line 40km from Vijayawada west reception control cabin to Eruppalem. Tripling construction going on the full length esp. near Dornakal and ...

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Two sections remain Aralvayamozhi to Nagercoil 16km and Nagercoil to Kanniyakumari 14km to double. Once this 30km distance is doubled, there will be a continuous electrified double line from Jammu to Kanniyakumari. In the main part of the spine Chennai to Delhi tripling is taking place very fast. Su...

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