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Lalu to inaugurate broad gauge line
AFTER 99 years of metre gauge rail service on the Kanpur-Farrukhabad section, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav would flag off a special train marking inauguration of broad gauge conversion from Anwarganj Railway station on May 19. The section, to start with, would have four pair of passenger trains while two pair of express train would also run on the track. An alternative route from Kanpur to New Delhi, the broad gauge conversion has linked the areas in between the section directly to the Country?s capital.
AFTER 99 years of metre gauge rail service on the Kanpur-Farrukhabad section, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav would flag off a special train marking inauguration of broad gauge conversion from Anwarganj Railway station on May 19.
The section, to start with, would have four pair of passenger trains while two pair of express train would also run on the track.
An alternative route from Kanpur to New Delhi, the broad gauge conversion has linked the areas in between the section directly to the Country’s capital. While Approximately 138 kilometre metre gauge construction took 27 years, the conversion from metre gauge to broad gauge took only about four months, which the Railway officials claim to be a record of sorts.
Flagging-off ceremony would be presided over by the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Sri Prakash Jaiswal and would also be attended by MPs Arun Shourie, Chandra Bhushan Singh, Akhilesh Yadav, Radhey Shyam Korey, MLAs Sanjeev Dariyabadi, Ajay Kapoor, Vijay Singh, Louis Khurshid, Premlata Katiyar and MLC Jagendra Swaroop. It is pertinent to mention that the Railway Ministry had sanctioned Rs 658.11 crore for the Kanpur-Farrukhabad-Qasganj-Mathura railway section broad gauge conversion project.
