Ahmedabad: With train interviews to complete the double track between Mehsana and Palanpur, come 2022, the Rail AHMedabad-Delhi route may be shorter and time consuming.
Working on the conversion of the Ahmedabad-Udaipur gauge is also being carried out on the war footing and is expected to be finished soon.
It will open a new train route to Delhi from Ahmedabad.
Railroad officials say that with some parts of the route to Delhi converted to a double lane travel time by Ashram Express from Ahmedabad to Delhi has been cut down 2 hours and 10 minutes, from the beginning of 17 hours to 15 hours now and 20 minutes.
With the rest of the ongoing work finished, this time it will drop to 14 hours and 30 minutes to say train officials.
At present, Rajdhani takes 13 hours 35 minutes to reach Delhi from Ahmedabad.
At that time it will also be shortened.
Completion of electrification work will reduce further travel time, the train official said.
“This song tends to undergo inspections in March next year after it will be assigned to passenger traffic,” said a senior train officer.
He said the electrification tested in the Ajmer Division will also be assigned in the middle of next year.
About the route Ahmedabad-Udaipur-Delhi, he said that the travel time to Udaipur, which was around 220-strange km would drop to four hours and then 13 more hours to leave Udaipur to Delhi through the route.