NHSRCL requests Western Railways to suspend rail traffic for 3 hrs a day in Vadodara

“We person approached Western Railways and they person fixed an in-principle statement to springiness blocks during the daytime,” an NHSRCL authoritative said.

Chief PRO, Western Railways, Vineet Abhishek said that the treatment with the NHSRCL was successful an “early stage” to gully up a program of enactment for the “movement of rider trains and regular railway traffic”.

This petition was made to alteration the operation of a viaduct implicit the main rider enactment — which is the lone conception of the full 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) corridor that has been re-aligned to debar the displacement of the engaged Kadak bazaar, and besides to forestall crane roar question astatine higher altitudes successful the country which could obstruct formation paths, saving, successful the process, Rs 2000 crore of the sanctioned task outgo of Rs 1,08,000 crore, officials said.

They purpose to implicit the civilian enactment for the 352-km-long Gujarat conception of the corridor, of which 8 km passes Vadodara city, known arsenic the “C5 package” by the extremity of this year. The elevated corridor volition person 32 spans crossing implicit the railway line, fractional of which volition beryllium implicit the rider enactment and the remainder implicit the freight corridor.

According to officials of the NHSRCL, fixed the challenges of aligning the corridor arsenic adjacent to the existing railway enactment arsenic possible, the Vadodara crossover is the lone conception successful the slug bid task that has been “redesigned.”
Work for the corridor had begun successful 2021, according to a past operation alignment program successful 2017. Per that alignment, slug trains would person crossed the six engaged railway platforms of Vadodara junction with a High Speed Rail (HSR) presumption coming up astatine the Kadak Bazar crossed the thoroughfare from the Vadodara station.

The aged connection had led to staunch absorption from section radical successful 2017-18 arsenic it besides progressive the acquisition of backstage onshore and posed a logistical situation successful needing to conception the viaduct implicit the operational railway platforms.

The archetypal plan required a 220m girder span to beryllium launched crossed 13 railway lines, including the six platforms of Vadodara junction and the railway yard, which NHSRCL officials accidental has not adjacent been built for the Japanese Shinkansen high-speed web — posing a situation successful presumption of “technical design, clip estimation, and besides cost”, arsenic the operation was expected to necessitate 25000 MT of steel.

Referred to arsenic the “Rajdhani line”, fixed Vadodara’s value arsenic a railway junction for the explicit trains connected the Delhi and Mumbai routes, the main rider enactment crossover successful Vadodara is among the “trickiest” constructions of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad slug bid route, accidental officials.

A elder authoritative connected with the task told The Indian Express, “The archetypal alignment (as per the survey of 2017) would person required america to transverse implicit the full gait of railway lines, including the main rider line. This has present been reduced to crossing the span implicit lone 2 main lines betwixt the Akota and Jetalpur bridges successful Vadodara metropolis with a alteration successful alignment of astir 4.3 km. In fact, it is the lone portion of the full 508-km agelong wherever the archetypal plan has been revised.”

The earlier program would person meant raising the launching limb of the crane to 131 metres from mean oversea level, acold higher than the permitted tallness of 95.9 metres arsenic per the Airports Authority of India for the Vadodara railway presumption area.

Vivek Kumar Gupta, Managing Director, NHSRCL, said, “Upon reappraisal by our engineers and Japanese counterparts, we re-engineered a conception which not lone simplified the span launching process, and reduced operation time, but besides achieved a outgo savings of Rs 2000 crore. Furthermore, we avoided the displacement of commercialized and residential units, ensuring minimal disturbance to railway services and residents.”

Gupta added, “The Vadodara Bullet Train presumption (HSR) is present integrated with Vadodara Railway station, is strategically positioned for amended accessibility, providing multi-modal integration with different proscription options and ample parking facilities, thereby enhancing connectivity for passengers.”

An authoritative connected with the task said, “To guarantee a creaseless operation with minimal effect connected the railway traffic, we person planned to motorboat composite girders, which are composed of alloy girders and factual platform slabs. We are successful treatment with the railways to program the blocks that would beryllium needed for completing the launching of the alloy girders. From the information constituent of view, the composite girders are astir convenient for the main line.”

During the clip of constructing these girders and slabs, the regular rider trains plying beneath volition person to travel a velocity regularisation of 30 kmph.

An authoritative told this insubstantial that the NHSRCL has planned to implicit the composite girder spans connected the Surat extremity and Ahmedabad extremity of Vadodara by seeking designated three-hour railway blocks, opening successful March. Eleven spans are planned for the Surat extremity and 5 for the Ahmedabad end. “Since we are tackling 4 spans astatine 1 time, the artifact would beryllium minimised. We person planned to implicit the archetypal portion of the span launching connected the Surat extremity wrong 37 days… and thereafter for the Ahmedabad extremity aboriginal this year.”

The authoritative adds that the NHSRCL and the Western Railways are moving intimately to place clip betwixt rider trains to make a abstraction wherever the railways could clasp backmost transition of goods trains.”