Indian Railways: Capacity of 48 stations including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai will double in the next 5 years

New Delhi, 27 December. Indian Railways is working on a plan to double the capacity to handle trains at 48 railway stations including Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in the next five years. This information was given in an official statement issued by the Central Government.

The government has planned to double the capacity of railway stations in the cities to handle trains. Apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, railway stations like Patna, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Bhopal, Guwahati, Varanasi, Agra, Puri, Cochin, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Surat, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Coimbatore, Vijayawada and Mysore etc. are included.

platform, pitline, Changes will be made to shunting and new terminal facilities.

A number of changes will be made to handle trains at stations, including adding new platforms to existing terminals, stabling lines, pit lines and adequate shunting facilities as well as identifying and building new terminals in and around urban areas.

Coaching Complex, Signaling upgrade, multi tracking will increase the capacity of trains.

The statement said development of maintenance facilities at the stations will also be undertaken, including sectional capacity enhancement along with mega coaching complexes and traffic facilitation works, signaling upgradation, and multi-tracking required to handle the increased number of trains at different points.

Parallel work will also be done at nearby stations

While planning to increase the capacity of the terminal, the stations around the terminal will also be considered so that the capacity is balanced evenly. For example, for Pune, consideration has been given to increasing the platforms and stabling lines at Pune station as well as increasing capacity at Hadapsar, Khadki and Alandi.

2030 Plan to double the capacity by

The statement said, ‘Although the plan to double the capacity is by 2030, it is expected that the capacity will be increased gradually over the next five years so that its benefits can be achieved immediately. This will help in meeting the traffic needs in the coming years. In this plan, the works will be divided into three categories – immediate, short-term and long-term.

Railway Board asked for concrete plan from every division to increase sectional capacity

In a letter to general managers of all zonal railways, Railway Board Chairman and CEO Satish Kumar said the proposed plan should be specific, with a clear timeline and defined outcomes. Although this work focuses on specific stations, each zonal railway should plan to increase train handling capacity in its divisions, ensuring that not only terminal capacity is increased, but sectional capacity and operational constraints at stations and yards are also effectively addressed.