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Railways to build another bridge over Yamuna to ease congestion
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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Jun, 2018
Aiming to speed up train movement over the Yamuna and also decongest the
Ghaziabad-New Delhi rail corridor -- one of the busiest in the country
-- Indian Railways has proposed an additional rail bridge over the river
in the capital.
While the old Yamuna rail bridge -- also known
as Loha Pul -- will give way to a new double-line rail bridge by March
next year, another bridge is set to come up near the existing Nizamuddin
rail bridge to ensure faster and seamless movement of about 150
outbound and inbound passenger and freight services.
Currently,
train movement between Ghaziabad and New Delhi station takes more than
an hour -- and sometimes even two hours -- due to over-congestion on the
route, causing much inconvenience to passengers. There has been demand
to ensure an additional path for Delhi-bound trains to improve
punctuality.
The proposed 600-metre bridge near the existing
Nizamuddin rail bridge, to be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 425
crore, will provide an additional path for Delhi-bound services and
ensure that trains negotiate the bridge at above 100 km per hour.
"The
hydraulic study for the proposed new rail bridge is underway and we are
expecting the construction to start by year-end," a senior Railway
Ministry official told IANS.
The construction of this new bridge
along the Nizamuddin bridge is expected to claim about 2,000 kikar trees
on the dry riverbed.
As far as the replacement of the old
Yamuna bridge is concerned, the 800-metre-long new double-line rail
bridge -- being built at an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore -- is
expected to be operational by March next year, as the work is on full
steam.
Though the more-than-a-century-old Yamuna bridge would be
discarded and replaced by a new one along the existing site, the road
bridge which is part of the old bridge will continue to be in use and
its maintenance will now be handed over to the Delhi government by
Northern Railway.
Popularly known as Loha Pul, the old bridge
gets affected during floods as train movement slows down and if the
Yamuna water level touches the danger mark then the traffic is barred on
the bridge.
The upcoming new rail bridge will, however, be an
all-weather bridge where "train movement would not be affected even in a
flood situation", said the official.
Unlike the old Yamuna bridge where trains are allowed only at 20/30 kmph, there will be no speed restriction on the new one.
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