Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor

Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
Overview
Type Freight rail
Status Approved in Indian Rail Budget 2014-15
Locale Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal / Jharkhand, India
Termini Ludhiana, Punjab
Dankuni, West Bengal
Operation
Owner Indian Railways
Operator(s) Indian Railways
Technical
Line length 1,839 km (1,143 mi)
Track gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Indian broad gauge
Eastern Dedicated Freight corridor
 Ludhiana
 Dhandharikalan
 Sirhind
 Rajpura
 Punjab - Haryana Border
 Ambala
 Yamunanagar
 Kalanaur
 Haryana - Uttar Pradesh Border
 Saharanpur
Muzafrnagar
 Meerut
 Hapur
 Bulandshahr
 Khurja
Uttar Pradesh - Haryana Border
Dadri
Western DFC
 Aligarh
 Hathras
 Barhan
 Tundla
 Etawah
 Bhaupur (for Kanpur)
 Prempur
 Cheoki/Naini
 Allahabad
 Cheoki/Naini
 Jeonathpur
 Mughalsarai
 Ganjkhwaja
 Uttar Pradesh - Bihar Border
 Son Nagar
 Bihar - Jharkhand Border
 Gomoh
 Jharkhand - West Bengal Border
 Andal
 Dankuni

Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor or Eastern DFC is a railway under construction in northwestern India by Indian Railways. The railway will run between Ludhiana in Punjab and Dankuni in West Bengal. The railway is one of the multiple freight corridors. For the railway line, broad gauge will be used. The Eastern DFC will have double tracks and will be electrified. The section from Ludhiana in Punjab to Khurja (Bulandshahr) in Uttar Pradesh will be single line electrified due to a lack of space. This freight corridor will cover a total distance of 1839 km. This corridor will also pass through Dadri, which is the origin point of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and which will serve as a junction.

Route

The freight corridor will cover first 447 km of Ludhiana - Dhari - Khurja section with single electrified track. After this the remaining line will be double track electrified up to Dankuni in West Bengal. This will cover the important stations of Sahnewal, Doraha, Ludhiana, Sirhind, Rajpura, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Barhan, Tundla, Firozabad, Etawah, Kanpur, Allahabad and Mughalsarai. To reduce load over the main line, this line will have many junctions. The proposed junctions on this line are Dhandharikalan, Sirhind, Rajpura, Khalanaur, Khurja, Daudkhan, Tundla, Bhaupur, Prempur, Cheoki / Naini, Jeonathpur, Mughalsarai, Ganjkhwaja, Son Nagar railway station, Gomoh, Andal and Dankuni (The eastern terminal point).

Eastern DFC
State Distance Covered
Punjab 88
Haryana 72
Uttar Pradesh 1049
Bihar 93
Jharkhand 50
West Bengal 488
Total 1839

Status

This corridor is divided into multiple section for contracting purposes.[1]

Eastern DFC
Section Distance Route Project contractor
Ludhiana - Khurja 404 Ludhiana-Ambala-Saharanpur-Yamunanagar-Muzaffarnagar-Meerut-Hapur-Bulandshahr-Khurja
Khurja - Bhaupur (near Kanpur) 343 Khurja-Aligarh-Hathras-Tundla-Etawah-Bhaupur TATA Projects India-Aldesa Spain[2][3]
Bhaupur (near Kanpur) - Mughalsarai 393 Bhaupur-Prempur-Allahabad-Mughalsarai GMR Group[4]
Mughalsarai - Sonnagar 118 Mughalsarai-Sonnagar C&C Construction Gurgaon and BSCPL
Sonnagar - Dankuni 538 Sonnagar-Gomoh-Dankuni PPP Model
Dadri-Khurja 46 Dadri-Khurja GMR Group
Total 1839
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor of India

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rlys’ reluctance to cede control delays $1-billion World Bank loan | Business Line. Thehindubusinessline.com (2013-04-03). Retrieved on 2014-05-05.
  2. ↑ DFCC awards Rs 3,300 cr Khurja-Bhaupur contract to Tata Aldesa JV. Business Standard (2013-01-24). Retrieved on 2014-05-05.
  3. ↑ Work on Eastern dedicated freight corridor project begins. The Hindu (2013-03-09). Retrieved on 2014-05-05.
  4. ↑ http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/asia/more-indian-freight-corridor-contracts-awarded.html
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