PM Modi to inaugurate Vande Bharat train to Kashmir Valley on February 17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition inaugurate the bid to Kashmir Valley connected February 17 to fulfil the implicit 70-year-old imagination of a obstruction work to the landlocked valley.

With its commercialized inauguration by PM Modi, the Vande Bharat bid volition chug connected the astir ambitious railway task ever built successful India and 1 of the astir hard and challenging tracks successful the world.

The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) task is simply a technological marvel that includes India's archetypal cable-stayed Anji Khad Bridge that has a 331-metre precocious pylon.

The Chenab Railway Bridge is the tallest railway span successful the world, lasting 359 metres supra the stream bed. This span is besides the world's highest arch bridge.

The USBRL includes implicit 2 twelve tiny and ample tunnels that marque the travel shorter for the Vande Bharat train, which has been designed with climate-friendly technology.

Its air-brake strategy is optimised for maximum efficacy successful sub-zero temperatures.

The bid volition person afloat air-conditioned coaches, automatic plug doors, mobile charging sockets, installation to bid nutrient and galore more, including a peculiar defrosting mechanics for the driver's windshield.

While inaugurating the Sonamarg tunnel, PM Modi had promised the radical of Jammu and Kashmir that helium would soon marque the imagination of a obstruction nexus betwixt the Valley and the remainder of the state a reality.

With an all-weather obstruction link, the uncertainties of clime affecting the contiguous Jammu-Srinagar National Highway volition go a happening of the past.

The bid to Kashmir Valley volition boost tourism, horticulture, industries, acquisition and besides payment citizens.

The bid volition instrumentality a question clip of 13 hours from Delhi to Srinagar.

The contiguous compulsory deboarding astatine Katra railway presumption volition extremity successful August this twelvemonth erstwhile the renovation and upgradation of the railway presumption astatine Jammu volition beryllium completed successful enactment with the requirements of the state-of-the-art Vande Bharat bid service.