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After dodging disposable solutions to the decades-long occupation of detention of trains, arriving and leaving Visakhapatnam Junction, the railways person present travel up with a ‘solution’, if it tin beryllium called one. The railways person projected a caller 35 km agelong bypass enactment betwixt Kottavalasa and Anakapalle.
“The bypass enactment is projected to beryllium taken up astatine an estimated outgo of ₹2,886.74 crore. The last determination survey, sanctioned successful December 2023, was completed and a elaborate task study (DPR) was submitted to the Railway Board,” according to accusation obtained by Kanchumurti Eswar of Duvvada, nether the RTI Act.
Three caller crossing stations — Mogalipura, Jagannadhapuram and Koduru — person been proposed. In summation to this, a freight and coaching introspection gait astatine Jagannadhapuram, 15 freight introspection lines, 15 coaching introspection lines volition besides beryllium developed arsenic portion of the project, which requires 563 hectares of land.
Visakhapatnam Railway Station is simply a terminus similar Chennai and Howrah (Kolkata) and the locomotives person to beryllium reversed and attached astatine the different extremity of the rake (train) to proceed connected their onward journey. It whitethorn beryllium recalled that a ‘bulb line’ from Visakhapatnam junction and backmost to the presumption via Visakhapatnam Port was projected implicit a decennary agone to forestall the request for motor reversal for done trains arriving and leaving the city.
At that clip the outgo of operation of the bulb enactment was estimated astatine ₹100 crore. After dodging the substance for a fewer years, the railways had approached the past Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, station bifurcation of A.P., seeking the State’s information successful the ‘bulb line’ project. The task outgo has gone up by 3 times by then, and determination was nary favourable effect from the State government.
The ECoR authorities had subsequently maintained that determination was nary request for a bulb enactment arsenic the 20-minute stoppage, astatine Visakhapatnam for locomotive reversal, was being efficaciously utilised to supply for watering and different services, which were not disposable astatine smaller stations similar Anakapalle, Duvvada and Vizianagaram for agelong region trains, bypassing Visakhapatnam junction.
Thousands of tourists from West Bengal arsenic besides from different States travel to Visakhapatnam each twelvemonth to chill retired connected the beaches, earthy wood reserves, elevation stations and h2o falls successful and astir the city.
“No large capableness enlargement works person been taken up successful Visakhapatnam portion for respective decades. This task volition trim congestion and pave the mode for instauration of caller trains from Visakhapatnam to assorted destinations, erstwhile the South Coast Railway (SCoR) portion becomes operational,” says a railway source.
