India first bullet train becomes reality

Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are to lay the foundation stone for India’s first high speed rail line that could see trains run at 350 kilometres an hour

E5 Series Shinkansen
Bullet Train

MUMBAI-AHMEDABAD HIGH SPEED RAIL
Max. Speed: 350 km/h. Journey reduced to two hours from current seven
Length: 508km    Completion: 2023
Capacity: 36,000 passengers/day in first year
Cost: $15 billion – 81% funded by Japan through 50-year low-interest loan
Trainset: 10-car variant of Japan’s E5 Series Shinkansen with 698 seats for standard class passengers and 55 seats in business class

POTENTIAL HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINES
Amritsar
Chandigarh
Delhi
Agra
Lucknow
Varanasi
Patna
Kolkata
Chennai
Hyderabad
Dornakal
Vijayawada
Bangalore
Coimbatore
Ernakulam

Mumbai- Ahmedabad line is part of “Diamond Qaudrilateral” of high speed trains over 10,000km of track linking key Indian cities

Ahmedabad
Vadodara
Surat
Mumbai
Thane
Gulf of Cambay
ARABIAN SEA
MAHARASHTRA

GUJARAT
Mumbai- Thane section includes 7km undersea tunnel

50km 
30 miles

Sources: Railway Gazette, Japan Transport Research Institute © GRAPHIC NEWS