Type Freight rail Operator(s) Indian Railways | Owner Indian Railways | |
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Status Approved in Indian Rail Budget 2014-15 Locale Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal / Jharkhand, India Termini Ludhiana, Punjab
Dankuni, West Bengal | ||
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor or Eastern DFC is an under construction freight corridor in India by Indian Railways. It is going to be a broad gauge corridor. This will have double line and will be electrified. Due to lack of space the section from Ludhiana in Punjab to Khurja in Uttar Pradesh will be single line electrified. This corridor will cover total distance of 1839 km. This corridor will also pass through Dadri (The origin point of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor) which will serve as a junction.
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Route
This corridor will cover first 447 km of Ludhiana - Dhari - Khurja section with single electrified track. After this the remaining line will be double track electrified up to Dankuni in West Bengal. This will cover important stations of Sahnewal, Doraha, Ludhiana, Sirhind, Rajpura, Ambala, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Barhan, Tundla, Firozabad, Etawah, Kanpur, Allahabad and Mughalsarai. To reduce load over main line this line will have many junctions. The proposed junctions on this line are Dhandharikalan, Sirhind, Rajpura, Khalanaur, Khurja, Daudkhan, Tundla, Bhaupur, Prempur, Cheoki / Naini, Jeonathpur, Mughalsarai, Ganjkhwaja, Son Nagar railway station, Gomoh, Andal and Dankuni (The eastern terminal point).
Status
This corridor is divided into multiple section for contracting purposes.