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Indian Railways has now been given the mission to deliver within 5 years, express running time between New Delhi and Howrah (Kolkata) and New Delhi and Mumbai Central of roughly 12 hours. The plan is to increase the maximum speed on these two trunk routes to 160kph (100mph) to get an average end point to end point speed of 120kph (75mph) for the Rajdhani Express trains. The rolling stock capable of such speeds is already available. most of the work is on permanent way, fencing, grade crossing elimination and deployment of ETCS-2. These two trunk routes carry almost a third of the total trunk passenger traffic in India!
https://www.financialexpress.com/in...an-railways-160-kmph-12-hours-trains/1669200/
https://www.financialexpress.com/in...an-railways-160-kmph-12-hours-trains/1669200/