Current Status
| Gauge | Name | 2013 Track km |
Track share |
2013 Route km |
Route share |
2013 Electrified Route km |
2010 Track km |
Track share |
2010 Route km |
Route share |
2010 Electrified Route km |
1951 Route km |
1951 Route share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1676 mm | Broad gauge | 102000 | 89.5% | 52808 | 82.5% | 21000 | 25258 | 47.0% | |||||
| 1000 mm | Metre gauge | 9000 | 7.9% | 8473 | 13.2% | 24185 | 45.0% | ||||||
| 762 and 610 mm | Narrow gauges | 3000 | 2.6% | 2734 | 4.3% | 4300 | 8.0% | ||||||
| Total: | 114000 | 64015 | 21000 | 53743 |
As of 2012, 107,500 km of track length (93% of entire track length of all the gauges) and 58,300 km of route-kilometre (90% of entire route-kilometre of all the gauges) was broad gauge; 6,000 km of track length (5% of entire track length of all the gauges) and 5,210 km of route-kilometre (8% of entire route-kilometre of all the gauges) was metre gauge and 1,500 route-kilometre (2% of entire route-kilometre of all the gauges) was of the narrow gauges.
As a result of Project Unigauge, the share of broad gauge in the total route-kilometre has been steadily rising, increasing from 47% (25,258 route-km) in 1951 to 89% (58,300 route-km) in 2012 whereas the share of metre gauge has declined from 45% (24,185 route-km) to 8% (5,210 route-km) in the same period. The share of narrow gauges has decreased from 8% in 1951 to 2% (1,500 route-km) in 2012.
India has converted its metre gauge lines into broad gauge up to its border with Nepal. Narrow gauge railway lines that extend for a short length from India into Nepal (Raxaul-Amlekhagunj and Jayanagar-Janakpuur-Bijalpura) need conversion by Nepal Railways to avoid transhipment. India has offered to do the conversion.
Read more about this topic: Project Unigauge
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