Lajigarh Road-Junagarh Road And Nuapada-Gunupur Railway Electrification To Be Completed This Year

Bhubaneswar: The electrification work in 56 Kms long Lanjigarh Road-Junagarh Branch Line Railway Section of Vizianagaram-Titilagarh-Raipur Railway route and 90 Kms long Naupada-Gunupur Branch Line of Howrah-Chennai Main Line will be completed very soon, said East Coast Railway (ECoR) today.

Railway officials said that Rs 62 Crores has been spent for 56 Kms long rail line between Lanjigarh Road and Junagarh Road while Rs 105 Crores has been spent for 90 KMs long rail line between Naupada and Gunupur.

“Recently, the main line sections of Sambalpur Railway Division i.e. Jharsuguda-Sambalpur, Sambalpur-Angul, Sambalpur-Titilagarh, Titilagarh-Singapur Road and Titilagarh-Raipur Railway Section have already been completed. Apart from this, electrification work between Belsonda-Komakhan-Khariar Road in Titilagarh-Raipur Railway section is in progress and will be completed by the end of November, 2019,” said an official.

Apart from this, electrification work in Khurda Road-Balangir on going Railway Line project has been started. “Rs 265 Crores will be spent for 289 Kms long rail line project. The electrification work in this line is being done from the both sides of this project,” added the official.  

After completion of electrification projects in these railway sections, trains with electric locomotives will be introduced instead of diesel locomotives. This will improve the speed of trains and will reduce the fuel cost and the expenditure will be minimised.

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