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  Indian Railways News  / India-Bangla talks on for Agartala-Kolkata direct bus via Dhaka

AGARTALA: India is taking up with Bangladesh for a direct bus service From Agartala to Kolkata via Dhaka, a top bureaucrat said today."We have proposed at the diplomatic level for a direct Agartala-Kolkata bus service via Dhaka considering the geographical isolation of many north eastern states including Tripura," Secretary of Ministry of Surface Transport and Highway, A K Upadhyay said.The 1800 km distance between Agartala and Kolkata through Assam and Meghalaya would be reduced to 350 km by bus or road transport and could be covered in a day.At present there were bus services from Agartala to Dhaka and Dhaka to Kolkata and vice versa, but no direct bus service.Meanwhile, India completed the final survey for the 11.5 km railway line to link Akhaura in Bangladesh and Agartala, a project which New Delhi planned to implement for linking railways of the two countries, official sources said.The Railway Ministry has started making the Detailed Project Report for the project and the central government has sanctioned Rs 2.52 crore for laying the railway track to connect West Bengal and Tripura through Bangladesh.During Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi in January 2010, India and Bangladesh had agreed to lay railway lines between Akhaura and Agartala.

  Indian Railways News  / LC No 19 between Khar-Bandra Station to be closed For 15 Days for Repair work

12-10-2012
Mumbai
LC No 19 between Khar-Bandra Station to be closed For 15 Days for Repair work

The Level Crossing Gate no 19 in betweenKhar-Bandra station will be remained closed for road traffic with effect from 22.00hrs of 15 October,2012 to 06.00hrs of 31 October, 2012 (15 days ) for repairs of approach road.

  Indian Railways News  / HUBLI DHARWAD

South Western Railway: Inauguration of New Hubli Railway Station by Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar; Union Minister of State for Railway K.H. Muniyappa presides; New Hubli Railway Station, Hubli, 10.30 a.m.

  Indian Railways News  / Normal Train Services Restored in Northeastern India

Agartala : The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) restored normal train services Thursday connecting Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam with the rest of India, nearly a week after all night trains in the region were cancelled for security reasons. "Both passenger and goods trains would run normally from Thursday. Additional security would be provided on the running trains as well as along the route," a railway spokesperson told IANS.The night trains were cancelled for an indefinite period after militants attacked the Agartala Express near Lower Haflong in Assam last Friday (Oct 5), the spokesperson added.Militants attacked the Agartala-bound train between Bagetar and Lower Haflong stations in the mountainous Dima Hasao district. According to railway police in Silchar, nobody was injured in the attack, however, the engine of the train was partially damaged."The decision to resume the service was taken after reviewing the security in the mountainous areas," the railway spokesperson said.The firing took place hours after the Assam and the central governments decided to sign a peace accord with two factions of the Dimasa tribal militant groups - one led by Dilip Nunisa and the other by Jewel Garlosa.The Indigenous People's Forum - a grouping of all non-Dimasa communities in the district - had opposed the move.The NFR connects Tripura's capital Agartala and parts of Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam with the rest of the country by a single 108-year-old metre-gauge railway track.

  Indian Railways News  / Automation helps precise work on metro tunnels

Precautions ensure there’s no damage to property; rocky ground a daunting challenge.In May 2011, when work for the first underground tunnel for a train in South India was launched, there was more apprehension among Bangaloreans than curiosity. As the Namma Metro tunneling work between Majestic bus station and cricket stadium, which is part of the East-West corridor, progressed, building owners along the tunnel route via Kempe Gowda Road, Mysore Bank Circle, Old Post Office Road, K R Circle, Dr Ambedkar Veedhi and so on, had doubts about the possible damage to their properties with mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) operating below.

This is the 17th month since the TBMs started work 60 feet below the ground and around two km of corridor length has been covered along the East-West line.

As promised, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has carried out the work with all necessary precautions. Till date, no damage has been done to any property along the route, despite hard rocks and rough terrain disrupting the tunneling operations every now and then.

When the Deccan Herald team visited the site of the ongoing tunnel works, between Sir M Visvesvaraya station near Central College campus and the Vidhana Soudha station, the TBM Margarita was busy boring the ground below the K R Circle stretch. Another TBM, Helen, was way ahead boring below the area near MS Building.

Subramanya Gudge, the BMRCL deputy chief engineer (underground), said as many as 80 workers were busy in one or the other task during each shift of tunneling along the East-West corridor. “The corridor has two tunnels of 5.5 meter diameter and they are five metre apart. While the boring instrument of the TBM, fitted with sharp blades, is 11 metre long, the backup system of the machine is 91 metre long,” he said.

BMRCL spokesperson T L Ravi Prakash explained that starting from fixing the alignment for the boring work to the stage of assembling the concrete rings inside the tunnel, every operation is automated and remote controlled.

“The men here do more of the machine control work and are there for back-up. In fact, as we stand inside the TBM, the boring work is on and we move ahead as the tunneling work progresses.

However, since it is a rocky area, the speed of boring is only three mm to four mm per minute. Hence, we are not feeling the movement,” he said. If there is soil ahead, the speed can be accelerated upto 24 mm per minute.