India making its own bullet trains that will run at speed of 250 km per hour

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India will soon see home-built bullet trains chugging on various routes. Interestingly, India-built bullet trains, work on which has already begun, will be faster than any of the trains which are currently being plied by the Indian Railways.

A report by Economic Times quoted a top government official saying that India made bullet train will run at the speed of over 250 kilometres per hour (kmph).

The speed of home-built bullet trains in India will be similar to high-speed trains in various parts of the globe which ply at over 250 kmph including the French TGV and the Japanese Shinkansen.

Where India-made built trains are being built?

As per the report, the designs are being prepared at the Indian Railways’ Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai.

“It is being built on the Vande Bharat platform that can already clock a maximum speed of 220 kmph,” the official further said.

For the unversed, ICF builds the indigenously developed Vande Bharat trains.

On which routes will India-built bullet trains run?

The made-in-India bullet trains will ply on the north, south, east corridors that were announced on Sunday (April 14) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while releasing the BJP’s manifesto for Lok Sabha polls 2024.

PM Modi promised three more bullet train corridors in the country and also said that the work on the first corridor, which will connect Ahmedabad to Mumbai, is almost complete, adding that the survey work for three more corridors will begin soon.

“The new corridors will be using more Indian tech and domestic manufacturing,” the report quoted the government official as saying.

At present, the bullet trains being built to ply between Gujarat’s Ahmedabad to Maharashtra’s Mumbai are relying on Japanese technology. The Shinkansen E5 series bullet trains, which India will deploy on this route, can hit 320 kmph.

The official further said the focus till now has been on improving the speed of Indian Railways trains.

“The (proposed) variant Vande Bharat trains can now reach from zero to 100 kmph in 52 seconds while the existing bullet trains do this in 54 seconds,” he added.

Addressing News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2024 in March, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said that India’s first Bullet Train will be ready in 2026, will run in one section from Surat to Bilimora in Gujarat.

The Centre is working on the 508-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR (highspeed rail) project that will initially cover Surat-Bilimora in Gujarat, and the full stretch is expected to be completed in 2028, he further said.