Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
Template:Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
| Western Dedicated Freight Corridor | |
|---|---|
| Overview | |
| Status | 306 km Operational (rest Under-construction) |
| Owner | Indian Railways |
| Locale | Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra |
| Termini | North: Dadri, Uttar Pradesh South: JNPT, Navi Mumbai |
| Service | |
| Type | Freight rail |
| Operator(s) | DFCCIL |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 1,504 km (935 mi) |
| Track gauge | 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Indian broad gauge |
Western Dedicated Freight Corridor or Western DFC is a 1,504 km long, under-construction broad gauge freight corridor in India. It will connect Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (near Delhi) with Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. This corridor is being built by the DFCCIL (Indian Railways) and would be electrified with double-line operation. Western DFC entails a new single-line branch from Prithla (Palwal) to Tughlakabad (Delhi) running parallel to existing New Delhi–Mathura Jn. main passenger line.
Western DFC is exclusively for transporting freight at higher speed with increased load-carrying capacity. Main freight includes fertilizers, food grains, salt, coal, iron, steel and cement. It uses Flash Butt Welded head-hardened (HH) 250m-long rails with track's axle load capacity of 32.5t compared to the existing 25t axle load used on Indian rail tracks.
The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (Eastern DFC) has a 46 km long branch line, that connects Khurja in Bulandshahr district on Eastern DFC with Dadri in Gautam Buddha Nagar district on the Western DFC.
About DFCEdit
The Government of India established the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) on 30 October 2006 to undertake construction of this project.[1] India's first 2 DFCs, Western Dedicated Freight Corridor from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra and Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (Eastern DFC) from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal, via Khurja are aimed at decongesting the railway network by moving 70% of India's goods train to these two corridors. As of August 2021, both DFCs are on track for completion by June 2022.[2]
RouteEdit
The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (Western DFC) will begin at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (near Delhi) covering a new patch of railway line between Dadri - Rewari and then will run parallel to existing railway line via Narnaul, Sri Madhopur and Reengus (Sikar). The other important station will be Phulera and Marwar Junction in Rajasthan, Palanpur, Amli Road (Sabarmati), Makarpura (Vadodara), Gothangam/ Kosad in Gujarat and Vasai Road in Maharashtra before it terminates at JNPT (Nhava Sheva Port) in Maharashtra's Raigad district.[1]
| Western DFC | |
|---|---|
| State | Distance Covered |
| Haryana | 177 |
| Rajasthan | 567 |
| Gujarat | 565 |
| Maharashtra | 177 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 18 |
| Total | 1504[3] |
ConstructionEdit
The DFCCIL has divided the construction work of the Western DFC into 5 section for contracting purposes.[4] The 141 km long Dadri–Rewari section also including Prithla–Tughlaqabad branch line.
| Western DFC | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section | Distance | Route | Status | Project contractor | Completion Date |
| Dadri – Rewari | 141 | Dadri-Greater Noida-Prithla-Sohna-Rewari | Under construction | L&T-Sojitz consortium[5] | 2021 December |
| Rewari – Iqbalgadh | 641 | Rewari-Phulera (near Jaipur)-Ajmer-Marwar-Iqbalgadh (near Palanpur) | Template:Active | L&T-Sojitz consortium | 2021 March |
| Iqbalgadh – Vadodara | 304 | Iqbalgadh (near Palanpur)-Mehsana-Amli Road (near Ahmadabad)-Vadodara | Under construction | L&T-Sojitz-Gayatri Projects consortium | 2021 September |
| Vadodara – Sachin | 163 | Vadodara-Sachin (near Surat) | Under construction | Mitsui-IRCON-Tata Projects consortium[6] | 2022 June |
| Sachin – JNPT | 265 | Sachin (near Surat)-Valsad-Vasai Road-Jawaharlal Nehru Port | Under construction | Mitsui-IRCON-Tata Projects consortium[6] | 2022 June |
| Total | 1,504 | ||||
Status updatesEdit
- Oct 2006: The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) is formed by the Ministry of Railways on 30 October 2006.
- Aug 2018: On 15 August 2018, DFCCIL successfully conducted the inaugural run of an Indian Railways freight train along the 190 km segment between New Ateli and New Phulera stations.[7]
- Dec 2019: In 28 December 2019, DFCCIL successfully tested the 306 km stretch between Kishangarh Balawas (Rewari) and Madar (Ajmer).
- July 2020: In July 2020, testing for the 352.7 km Madar to Palanpur stretch was completed.[8] At that time, 99% of the required land for the two corridors had been acquired, and 56% of the WDFC and 60% of the EDFC were complete.[2]
- Jan 2021: The 306 km route commenced operations on 7 January 2021.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, India, Railway-technology.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Railways' two big ticket projects DFC, bullet train on track despite lockdown: Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav. Economic Times, 6 June 2020.
- ↑ "Website".
- ↑ Das, Mamuni (3 April 2013). "Rlys' reluctance to cede control delays $1-billion World Bank loan". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ↑ Tandon, Shubhra (8 August 2016). "Larsen & Toubro set to win Rs 4,000 cr western dedicated freight corridor project". The Financial Express.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kumar, V Rishi (5 January 2016). "Mitsui-led consortium starts work on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor Project". The Hindu Business Line.
- ↑ Bhargava, Yuthika (4 September 2018). "Ateli enters history on a freight train" – via www.thehindu.com.
- ↑ DFCCIL launches trial run