Imagine a train traveling the 837km distance between Mumbai and Nagpur in three and a half hours flat. The Maharashtra Cabinet has plans to make it possible.
On Thursday, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh approved a proposal for surveying high-speed route between the state’s capital and its second capital. Currently, the Mumbai-Nagpur train travel time is 14-15 hours (that doesn't include time between Kalyan and CST).
The State would appoint a team of international experts to prepare feasibility report for trains that would ply at 350-500km per hour using magnetic levitation (maglev) technology.
The dream project is based on the maglev trains that are now running in China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom and few other European countries. The project would be a public-private partnership.
The Chinese maglev commercial train that started in 2004, covers the 20 miles from Pudong International Airport in Shanghai to the outskirts of the city in a blistering seven minutes and 20 seconds. The venture cost more than $1 billion.
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