Eastern Freight Corridor
The Eastern Corridor encompasses a double line electrified traction corridor from Haldia on the Eastern Railway to Khurja on the North Central Railway (1270 km) Via Grand Chord, Khurja to Dadri on NCR Double Line electrified corridor (46 km) and Single electrified line from Khurja to Ludhiana (412 km) on Northern Railway. The total length works out to 1379 km. So in the grand Chord section its total 4 parallel track will be run to ease traffic movement on this busy route.
The Eastern Corridor will traverse 6 states and is projected to cater to a number of traffic streams - coal for the power plants in the northern region of U.P., Delhi, Harayana, Punjab and parts of Rajasthan from the Eastern coal fields, finished steel, food grains, cement, fertilizers, lime stone from Rajasthan to steel plants in the east and general goods. The total traffic in UP direction is projected to go up from 38 million tonnes in 2005-06 to 116 million tonnes in 2021-22.
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