Decongestion of Trunk Railway Routes

There are 7 identified trunk routes across the country, which are also termed as High Density Network routes viz., (1) Delhi-Howrah, (2) Howrah-Mumbai, (3) Mumbai-Delhi, (4) Delhi-Guwahati, (5) Delhi-Chennai, (6) Chennai-Howrah and (7) Chennai-Mumbai.

Railways have a large number of sanctioned projects under the Plan Heads of Doubling, New Line, Gauge Conversion and Traffic facility works to decongest routes. These include 155 New Line works, 42 Gauge Conversion works, 235 Double Line Works, 554 Traffic Facility works and 60 Electrification works.

Capacity augmentation and bottleneck removal are a continuous effort keeping in view the traffic growth.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.