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  • Secunderabad rly station to get airport-like facelift at Rs 719 cr

    Secunderabad rly station to get airport-like facelift at Rs 719 cr

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    Secunderabad railway station to get Rs 719 crore airport-like facelift

    Hyderabad: The Secunderabad railway station is all set to get a mega facelift as the station will be revamped with state-of-the-art facilities worth Rs 719 crore.

    The project budget was initially set at around Rs 650 crore. However, it has now been increased to Rs 719 crore to meet global standards and provide airport-level facilities to passengers.

    Union minister Kishan Reddy on his Twitter handle announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of Secunderabad railway station on April 8.

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    With seamless transfers from one mode to another, adequate parking, convenient pickup and drop-off areas, and decongestion of the circulating area have been revamped for the benefit of passengers.

    New measures further aim to generate business opportunities and revenue.

    The redevelopment project will include the construction of a new station building on the existing north side with G+3 floors (22,516 sq metres) and the extension of the existing south-side building with G+3 floors (14,792 sq metres).

    A double-story sky concourse of 108 metres in width will also be constructed, with the first tier serving passengers and the second tier serving the public as a rooftop plaza.

    Construction of five levels parking lot on the north side and a separate underground parking lot on the south side is also included in the project.

    Existing platforms will be renovated and upgraded to match the new station ambience, including fully covered platforms with the inclusion of a solar power plant with a capacity of 5000 KVP.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Vande Bharat Metro train between Jammu and Srinagar: Rly Minister

    Vande Bharat Metro train between Jammu and Srinagar: Rly Minister

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    Jammu: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said a Vande Bharat Metro train will be operated between Jammu and Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir once the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project (USBRL) becomes fully operational.

    Addressing media persons at the first run of a track-mounted trolley on the world’s highest arch bridge constructed on the Chenab river, he said the USBRL project will be completed by December this year or January 2024.

    Vaishnaw travelled on the track-mounted trolley with railway officials and inspected the iconic bridge having a height of 359 meters from the Chenab riverbed.

    Vaishnaw said it has been decided to set up a Vande Bharat Express train maintenance facility at Badgam in the Kashmir Valley and in the first go Vande Bharat Metro will be run between Jammu and Srinagar cities once this important railway link, which will connect the Kashmir Valley with the rest of the country through rail network gets completed.

    The iconic bridge having a foundation equal to half the football field is a “subject of pride” and it was a “difficult challenge of engineering”, he said, adding that more than 28,000 metric tonnes of steel were used for the bridge structure that is built in a highly active seismic zone.

    The Northern Railway officials said the arch bridge was constructed at a cost of Rs 1,486 crore. The deck height of the bridge is 359 meters, while its length is 1,315 meters. The arch bridge has 17 spans and the linear length of the main arch span is 460 meters and it is curvilinear, they said.

    The codal life of the bridge is 120 years and the bridge can withstand a wind speed of 266 kmph, but the train can cross the bridge at the speed of 100 kmph.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • MP: WCR rechristens Hoshangabad rly station as Narmadapuram

    MP: WCR rechristens Hoshangabad rly station as Narmadapuram

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    Bhopal, Jan 29 (PTI) The West Central Railway (WCR) has renamed Hoshangabad railway station in Madhya Pradesh as Narmadapuram, an official said on Sunday.

    The WCR had on Saturday issued a circular announcing the renaming of the station as Narmadapuram with the acronym NDPM, he said.

    In February 2022, the Centre had cleared the proposal to rename Hoshangabad city as Narmadapuram, located about 75-km from state capital Bhopal.

    Earlier this week, the state government had issued a gazette notification stating that the Centre had granted “no objection” for renaming the city’s railway station as well.

    While giving the nod to rename Hoshangabad last year, the Centre had also cleared the proposal to rechristen Babai town in Narmadapuram district as Makhan Nagar, after noted Hindi poet and journalist Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

    The Madhya Pradesh government’s renaming spree began in 2021 when it changed the name of Habibganj railway station as Rani Kamlapati after a Gond queen.

    According to the state government website, Hoshangabad had derived its name from Hoshang Shah Ghori, the second king to Malwa of the Ghori line who conquered it.

    Narmadapur had been the city’s erstwhile name.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )