Bullet train by 2027! Ashwini Vaishnaw reveals key routes — Ahmedabad, Surat & more

India is acceptable to get its archetypal slug bid by 2027! Union curate of railways Ashwini Vaishnaw connected Thursday announced that India is apt to person its archetypal Bullet Train connected 15 August 2027. Speaking astir the timeline of the project, helium said, "The slug bid volition beryllium acceptable successful 2027, August 15th, 2027.”The curate further informed astir the routes, saying, “the archetypal conception to unfastened volition beryllium from Surat to Bilimora. After that, Vapi to Surat volition open. Then Vapi to Ahmedabad volition open, and aft that, Thane to Ahmedabad volition open, and past Mumbai to Ahmedabad volition open.""For the slug bid ... you tin bargain a summons present itself, arsenic it volition beryllium operational by 2027," helium further added, jokingly.The 508-km Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor, India’s archetypal high-speed obstruction line, has been steadily progressing, with important enactment completed connected viaducts, bridges, tunnels, and stations. The corridor, which volition run astatine speeds of up to 320 kmph, is expected to trim question clip to nether 2 hours. Officials earlier said that 320 km of viaduct enactment is already complete, with onshore acquisition, tunnelling, presumption construction, and electrification moving up simultaneously.

The project, developed successful collaboration with Japan, combines Shinkansen standards with Indian engineering astatine scale, and officials expect the archetypal operational tally successful 2027, with afloat corridor cognition by 2029.The curate besides announced that the archetypal Vande Bharat sleeper bid is acceptable to beryllium launched this month. PM Narendra Modi is expected to emblem disconnected the work successful the 2nd fractional of January 2026.Speaking astir the occurrence of the Vande Bharat Express, Vaishnaw said it has created a "new consciousness of assurance crossed the country," and added that the bid has been wide appreciated. "Requests are present coming successful from each implicit India to tally Vande Bharat trains, and astir each MP wants one. With the aforesaid comfort, safety, and standards, a caller overnight travel volition statesman with the Vande Bharat Sleeper," helium informed.