WESTERN DEDICATED FREIGHT CORRIDOR (Western DFC) - Indian Railway

BACKGROUND

The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor or Western DFC is a broad gauge freight corridor under construction in India by Indian Railway.

15th August 2018 is 72nd Independence Day. On this Day, Our PM (Narendra Modi) will announce the First Publically owned Dedicated Corridor  for Frieght trains. This is after 165th Year of Birth of Indian Railways

 Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

WHAT Its LENGTH , COSTS , START and END Point 
  • Total: 1499 KM
  • Starting Point: Dadri, Uttar Pradesh
  • End Point: Mumbai, Maharashtra.

 But, Currently Its 199KM phase completed i.e. from Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) to Phulera (In Rajasthan). So, On 15th August 2018 only small phase of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor will be Gifted to Nation.

 HOW MANY FREIGHT CORRIDOR

 Currently In our Country, Two Frieght Corridor is in Under Construction

 1) WESTERN FREIGHT CORRIDOR - From Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) to JNPT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port)
2) EASTERN FREIGHT CORRIDOR  - From Ludhiana (Punjab) to Dankuni (Kolkata)

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Total Costs for Both Western and Eastern Freight Corridor - Rs 81459 Crore.

Japan International Corporation Agency Providing over Rs 38000 Crore as a loan for WDFC (Western Dedicated Freight Corridor).

 The Railway Plans to commission Both the corridor by April 2020. Though deadline extended many times.
WHAT ARE DEDICATED FREIGHT CORRIDOR [DFC]

These are freight only railway lines to move goods between industrial heartlands in the North and Ports on the Eastern and Western Coasts.

 The dedicated freight- only lines are being built along the four Key Transportation routes - known as the Golden Quadrilateral and connecting Delhi, Mumbai ,Chennai and Howrah and its two diagonals  (Delhi - Chennai, Mumbai - Howrah)

 WHY DO WE NEED DFCS (Dedicated freight Corridor System)
  • Currently, our Railway lines are Mixed i.e Both Passengers and Freight operations performed on same Track. Due to this , Optimum utilization not done properly.
  • Also, The Golden Quadrilateral along with its two diagonals together carry little over half of the passenger traffic and account for close to 58% of freight traffic on the Indian Railway. So due to this, Many times exporters need to wait for 2-3 days.
  • Due to this also, Our Golden Quadrilateral now feel less saturated and efficiency gets increases.
That's why there is need of extra corridor which is dedicated to Freight Operations.

 WHAT ALL OTHER MODIFICATION DONE FOR COACHES, CORRIDOR as compare to Existing one

 Capacity Increases from 5000(Existing) to 13000 (on DFC)
Coach Height Increases from 4.2m (Existing) to 7.1m(Western) and 5.1(Eastern)
Width Increases from 3200mm(Existing) to 3600mm(on DFC)
Coach Stack - Single(Currently) to Double Stack(on DFC) (like Double Decker Bus)
Train Length Increases from 700m(Currently) to 1500m(on DFC)

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PROBLEMS FACED DURING PROJECT

Slow Speed of Construction. The targeted completion of the project was 2016-17, shifted to the year end of 2017-18 and now has been finally been set at April 2020.


For more information, you can access below links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Dedicated_Freight_Corridor
https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/railways-to-get-first-dedicated-corridor-for-freight-trains-on-august-15-118071601349_1.html

Above Information is as per as per data available in news till the date when I am posting this.


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