Diamond Quadrilateral

Diamond Quadrilateral
Overview
Type	High-speed rail
Status	Under planning, segments approved
Locale	(bold indicates states containing major termini) • Andhra Pradesh • Telangana (Hyderabad) • Uttar Pradesh • Rajasthan • Karnataka (Bangalore) • Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram) • Maharashtra (Mumbai, Pune) • Gujarat • Odisha • West Bengal (Kolkata) • Tamil Nadu (Chennai) • Bihar • Jharkhand • Haryana • Delhi
Operation
Owner	Indian Railways
Technical
Track gauge	Potentially 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Indian broad gauge
Electrification	25kV AC overhead lines
Operating speed	320 km/h

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The Diamond Quadrilateral is a project of the Indian railways to establish high speed rail network in India. This quadrilateral will connect the four metro cities in India, i.e. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. This project is similar to Golden Quadrilateral which is a roadway project which connects the four metros by Express Ways. The Golden Quadrilateral falls under National Highways Development Project which has helped to build better road transport in India. Similarly to improve country's rail infrastructure there is a need to implement High-speed trains / Bullet trains. So to fulfill this demand the Diamond Quadrilateral project was planned. India today is planning to start Semi-high speed trains on nine corridors and has ambition to run bullet trains in future. High-speed train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad section will be the first bullet train corridor to be implemented in the country. On 9 June 2014, the President of India Pranab Mukherjee, officially mentioned that the Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a Diamond Quadrilateral project of high speed trains.^[1]

Technical details

This corridor will be operated on broad-gauge tracks. The major terminals will be at Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The corridor will pass through 14 states and territories in India. These states are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

See also

• Golden Quadrilateral

References

1. Address by The President of India to the Joint sitting of Parliament 2014 (PDF)

External Links

• High Speed Rail Corporation of India Limited
• Powering a high-speed dream - Sanjib Kumar Das, Gulf News
• New Indian government moots high-speed rail network, Chris Sleight, KHL