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New corridors planned for India's bullet train network

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January 22, 2025

The BJP in its general election manifesto had promised three corridors for high-speed trains

- Subhash Narayan

The government proposes to expand the coverage of high-speed trains, laying the ground for them to run on new routes along the lines of the golden quadrilateral highway network.

The golden quadrilateral is a diamond-shaped network of highways connecting northern, eastern, southern and western India.

The next expansion of high-speed trains includes plans to manufacture these trains domestically in collaboration with the Japanese, who are also building the Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail network.

In an interview, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Bharatiya Janata Party in its general election manifesto had promised three new corridors for high-speed trains, and that the government now plans to start working on this.

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