The Silver line Semi High Speed project was buried some time ago. the Govt of Kerala couldn't even manage the land acquisition issue associated with it never mind actually designing an actual train line. Once the 'Vande Bharat Metro' rakes come online by the end of 2023 then it will enable IR to run point to point services connecting Cities in the radius of 50/100 km from each other, in the same way as metro systems within a City.chetak wrote:Now that Modi has brought the Vande Bharat express train to KER, what happens to the commie pinarayi vijayan's pet project and his commitment to build the silver line semi high-speed rail project
Surely a Vande Bharat express train can be run, with a bit of technical jiggery pokery, point to point between any cities in KER
A Vande Bharat express train could be run from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod in about seven hours or so.
The issue will remain is that VB Metro will need dedicated broad gauge infrastructure since the existing broad gauge network is pretty full with intercity traffic.