glimpse of bullet train construction at Sabarmati railway station in Gujarat India |
Bullet Train Safety Measures in India
Automatic Rail Track Fracture Detection
Fire Rated Sliding Doors
The length of bullet train track in India is 508 kms and it requires all the safety measures that are available. You will agree with that "Speed cannot be traded off with lives of people."
Larsen and Toubro (LNT) recently got the contract for construction of 46 percent of the 237 km between Vadodara-Surat-Vapi of C-4 package of the project 88 km between Vadodara to Ahmedabad. The contract for construction of the project under C-6 package has also been awarded to L&T.
By combining the C4 and C6 packages, this project has now become the largest infra project in the country. An under sea tunnel is also being constructed in Mumbai for smooth operation of bullet train.
Under C6 package many important work will be completed under bullet train project. Some of these are as under:
Design engineering of civil work between Vadodara to Ahmedabad in 6 packages, high speed double line (87.5), 25 crossing bridge, 97.5 km parallel bridge, maintenance depot, among other engineering works. While package C4 construction comprises a total of 46.66% of the project, the length is 237 km.
We are all waiting for commencement of first bullet train of India, and excited too.
Aren't we?