Eastern Freight Corridor

On August 15, 1854, a five-coach train pulled by a British-made locomotive left Howrah at 8:30 am for Hooghly without any fanfare -- signalling an engineering triumph and the beginning of eastern India's first railway. However, this historic milestone achieved by the then-East Indian Railway (EIR), whose massive network would eventually reach Delhi by the 1860s, was preceded by a series of unfortunate events that delayed its arrival on the country's landscape and in people's consciousness. A new book on the birth and evolution of the EIR and the East India Railway Company that established it, based on multiple 19th-century-era accounts drawn from a range of archives, has endeavoured to offer an "unbiased narrative" of this railway and the men who built it, brick by brick and steel by steel. "Before the inaugural run, the EIR had already stirred public curiosity in Bengal with its first locomotive-only trial on June 29, 1854, from Howrah to Pandooah, followed by an experimental run o

The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) between Punjab and Bihar was completed in October 2023 and the Western DFC between Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai will be completed by the end of this year

The Eastern arm of DFCCIL's Dedicated Freight Corridor has been cut short by 538 km, leaving a key segment unfinished due to land acquisition issues and weakening economic viability

The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor is a testament to the government's commitment to modernising infrastructure and fostering economic growth across the country

Freight corridors are special tracks made for goods trains, aimed to decongest the railway network, ensuring faster movement of goods

Move over 'inordinate delay' in executing crucial stretch of Western DFC

Says project was envisaged by earlier govts but not implemented on time, causing 11x cost escalation; comes down on those who disrupt movement of trains during protests

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 'New Bhaupur-New Khurja section' of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) on December 29, 2020 at 11 AM via video conferencing

Modi will inaugurate the 'New Bhaupur-New Khurja' section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor on December 29 via video conferencing

The work was to be executed on a 417-km section of the corridor between Kanpur and Mughalsarai

The 538-km stretch is estimated to cost Rs 15,000 crore

Construction work on the eastern railway freight corridor has picked up pace with construction order for the single-track corridor from Khurja to Pilkhani was awarded to engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T).L&T on Friday said it has won a single-track corridor package on the eastern dedicated freight corridor worth Rs28.64 billion for construction the 222km line."This is Larsen & Toubro's first EPC Civil, Structure & Track project in the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. In the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, L&T already has a share of 71 per cent in the civil packages and 100 per cent share in the electrical packages," the company said in its statement to BSE."The scope of work includes construction of single railway track including yards, 75 major & 588 minor bridges, 1 rail over bridge modification, 4 rail flyovers, 21 stations along with construction of all associated works. The project is planned to be executed using completely ...

Project aims for faster movement of goods between northern and eastern parts of India