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Indian Railways on Wednesday informed, the 189km Ranchi-Koderma railway track via Barkakana will be ready for operations by December.
Once ready, the route will lessen the distance between Barkakana and Ranchi by 60km.
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Indian Railways on Wednesday informed, the 189km Ranchi-Koderma railway track via Barkakana will be ready for operations by December.
Once ready, the route will lessen the distance between Barkakana and Ranchi by 60km.
As part of the project, the route between Barkakana to Koderma via Hazaribag has been operational for rail movement and another 67km stretch between Barkakana junction to Ranchi is in final phases, the officials said during the launch of a retiring room and dormitory at Ramgarh Cantt railway station, part of South Eastern Railway, in presence of Hazaribag MP Jayant Sinha.
Neeraj Ambashtha, divisional rail manager (DRM) of Ranchi rail division, said, “The Barkakana-Ranchi line will pass through hills and have four tunnels.
The construction of two tunnels is over and the third is near completion.
The entire project is expected to be complete by December.”
He said passengers at Ramgarh Cantt will now be able to avail facilities of AC and non-AC retiring rooms, dormitory, and separate pay-and-use toilets.
The station has six AC rooms, four non-AC rooms, and a 10-bed dormitory that can be booked on the IRCTC website.
Talking to media In Dhanbad, general manager of East Central Railways (ECR) L C Trivedi said the Union government has made budgetary provisions for strengthening the infrastructural facilities to increase the train speed from existing 130kmph to 160kmph and fencing of nearly 400km of railway track between Dhanbad to Mugalsarai will be done soon.
“For this, the existing rail coaches would be replaced by LHB coaches in phased manner and trains will be equipped with Train Collision Avoiding System keeping passenger’s safety in view.
Besides this, 39 level crossings falling under the Dhanbad rail division will be replaced by sub-ways and Rail over bridges (ROB) between Pradhan Khanta and Manpur stations under this division,” he added.
Trivedi said they were in constant touch with the railway board for allowing the running of more special trains and that they expect normalized services within two months.
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