Now, One Can Reach Mumbai to Ahmedabad in just 2 hours
With yet another great news coming up in the way of travellers, also for the commuters, now one could easily reach Mumbai to Ahmedabad in just two hours.
The National High-Speed Railway Corporation Limited has decided to initiate the procedure to acquire railway land between the old and new Sabarmati stations, for the bullet train station.
The ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project will start operations from 2022 and trains will leave from Mumbai every 20 minutes.
The bullet train station will be elevated and situated between the current old and new Sabarmati stations. Officials said the bullet train will originate and terminate at the Sabarmati station with Kalupur being the second station in Ahmedabad.
NHSRC officials said the journey time between Mumbai (Bandra-Kurla Complex) and Sabarmati will be 2.07 hours for a fast train and 2.58 hours for a train stopping at all twelve stations en route.
During peak hours — 7 am to 10 am and 5 pm to 9 pm — there will be three trains every hour, or a train every 20 minutes. Two trains will depart at off-peak hours. Passenger capacity will initially be 750 per train and it will be increased to 1,250 later.