Title - First dedicated corridor for freight trains to open on August 15

First dedicated freight corridor is all set to open this August 15 for Indian Railways. The 190 km long railway line between Phulera in Rajsthan and Dadri in Uttar Pradesh will be inaugurated by prime minister Narendra Modi. This rail corridor fall under Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.

These Freight corridor will help Indian Railways to overcome its slump in freight traffic. In February 2006, cabinet gave green signal to the project and after 12 years the project is finally in some kind of shape.

A government official said, "The feeder route at Tundla is already in place and the Ateli-Phulera route will be functional on August 15. There will be at least 10 feeder lines in the western corridor only connecting the main line to the supply freight. This is going to reduce the traffic by more than half in these busy routes"

For this project in Western India, a loan of Rs 387.22 billion was sanctioned by Japan International Cooperation Agency while for Eastern route that runs via Mughalsarai - Allahabad - Kanpur - Khurja- Dadri - & Khurja - Ludhiana is funded by World Bank through a loan of $2.360 billion.

Railway already conducted a trial run on Ateli - Phulera section at 100 kmph earlier this year.