A trial run of a freight train at 100 kilometers per hour was conducted on Saturday, July 27th, 2024, on the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor between New Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) and Shujaatpur. The trial included the newly built bridge over the Yamuna River, where the train also maintained a speed...
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of 100 kilometers per hour. The trial was successful, clearing the way for freight trains to operate at this speed. The Managing Director, Ravindra Kumar, congratulated the team on this achievement. The trial commenced at 9 am from New DDU station and the train reached New Kanpur station at 1:05 pm, covering a distance of 337 kilometers at an average speed of 82.53 kilometers per hour. The inspection of the newly built Yamuna bridge was also conducted during the trial, with the inspection train traversing the bridge at 100 kilometers per hour. The trial was supervised by several officials, including the Director of Project, Pankaj Saxena, and Executive Directors G.D. Bhagavani, Anurag Yadav, A.S. Tomar, A.B. Saran, Ashish Mishra, Shashikant Dwivedi, and Mannu Prakash Dube.