A railway station will be built inside a tunnel at an approximate height of 3,000 metres and a length of 27 kilometres on the strategic Bilaspur-Manali-Leh line.
For the first time in India, a railway station will be built inside a tunnel at an approximate height of 3,000 metres and a length of 27 kilometres on the strategic Bilaspur-Manali-Leh line.
The Indian Express reports that the Himachal Pradesh’ Keylong station will be the first on the railway network to be inside a tunnel.
It will connect major places between Bilaspur and Leh like Sundernagar, Mandi, Manali, Keylong, Koksar, Darcha, Upshi and Karu and other places of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
The government of India is undertaking several initiatives as to upgrading its aged railway Infrastructure and enhance its quality of service.
The Railway Ministry has announced plans to invest about US$126 billion to upgrade the railways by 2020.
Indian Railways Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) undertakes all research, designs and standardisation work for modernisation of the railway network in the country.
