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The Southern Railway volition soon contented a tender for the long-awaited way doubling task from Athipattu to Gummidipoondi successful Tiruvallur territory this month. The Railway Board had fixed authorisation for the task to physique the 3rd and 4th lines based connected the petition of Southern Railway successful July past year.
Since the task announcement, the residents of northbound Chennai person been waiting for immoderate enactment connected the portion of the railways. The task would beryllium for a full magnitude of 22.50-kilometre, costing ₹374 crore.
The mounting up of 3rd and 4th lines would assistance decongest the existing line, which is being utilised astir 100% owed to the beingness of respective concern units, tourism spots and 3 large ports, including the Kattupalli port, successful the region. At present, the way is utilized for suburban, freight, message and explicit trains, causing terrible inconvenience to the suburban bid commuters successful the northbound section.
Land acquisition for the project, estimated to outgo ₹1,800 crore, has been initiated. The Southern Railway is expecting the freight capableness connected the way to scope 15 cardinal tonnes per annum aft the task is executed. Once the 3rd and 4th lines are completed till Gudur, the message and explicit trains would person a seamless and faster cognition based connected the modern way strategy having a maximum velocity bounds of 160 kilometres per hour, said M. Senthamil Selvan, Chief Public Relations serviceman of Southern Railway.
S. Sureshbabu, president of Gummidipoondi Railway Passengers Welfare Association, successful a memorandum to Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had requested expediting the tender process for the project, upgrading the loop lines for expanding the velocity bounds for cognition of suburban trains astatine Gummidipoondi presumption from 15-kilometre per hr to 30 kmph, and the utilisation of a abstracted way for suburban, and message and explicit trains.
In summation to the project, the Railway Board has fixed support for a akin enactment connected the Gummidipoondi-Gudur stretch.
