The 1st RRTS corridor of India is becoming implemented amongst the national capital and Meerut by means of Ghaziabad, Duhai and Modi Nagar.
For the country’s 1st Regional Rapid Transit System- Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) will use indigenously created ballastless tracks, a technologies that supports higher-speed trains. An NCRTC official was quoted in a PTI report saying that these tracks will be appropriate for higher-speed trains operating up to a speed of 180 km per hour and demand low upkeep. The official additional claimed that till now, such technologies did not exist in India. At 1st, the track slabs will be utilized on the 17-km-extended priority section of Sahibabad-Duhai on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor. This RRTS section is most likely to be operational by the year 2023, although the complete 82-km-extended Delhi-Meerut corridor will be completed by 2025.
The 1st RRTS corridor of India is becoming implemented amongst the national capital and Meerut by means of Ghaziabad, Duhai and Modi Nagar. Once the RRTS becomes operational, the travel time from Delhi to Meerut will be decreased to significantly less than an hour from the existing 3-4 hours by road. According to NCRTC, for the Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor, the improvement of the track slab factory has lately began in the Shatabdi Nagar casting yard and it is scheduled for completion inside a period of 180 days. To meet the target of operationalising the 17-km extended section that will cover 4 stations- Ghaziabad, Sahibabad, Guldhar and Duhai, the factory will begin production of track slabs.
One of the RRTS corridor’s crucial capabilities is multimodal integration and the RRTS stations will be seamlessly integrated with airport, railway stations, metro stations as nicely as inter-state bus terminals, which will provide a hassle-free of charge journey expertise to passengers. According to NCRTC, at the priority section, the formation of viaduct has gained momentum and the civil building of the Duhai depot has commenced as nicely. In every single RRTS train, one particular coach will be reserved for ladies commuters.
Keeping in view higher-speed train operations, all RRTS stations will be offered with platform screen doors for passengers’ security. The RRTS train doors will be integrated with platform screen doors. Recently, an MoU has been signed by NCRTC, the executing agency of RRTS, with Bharat Electrical Limited for indigenous improvement of platform screen doors. The completely air-conditioned aerodynamic RRTS trains will boast a radiating stainless steel outer body and will be lightweight.