Kerala advised to revise DPR of semi-high speed rail corridor on broad gauge

The Union Railway Ministry has revived hopes for Kerala’s long-pending semi-high-speed obstruction project, SilverLine, by asking the State to revise the Detailed Project Report (DPR). The projected corridor from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod is present required to usage wide gauge (BG) tracks alternatively of the primitively projected modular gauge tracks.

This directive comes arsenic the Railway Board develops standards and specifications for a semi-high-speed BG corridor, drafting from its ongoing Sarkhej–Dholera task nether Western Railway successful Gujarat. The Kerala Rail Development Corporation Limited (K-Rail), the associated task liable for implementing railway projects successful the State, has been advised to revise the DPR successful consultation with Western Railway.