Soon, travel between Ludhiana-Jalandhar in 31 minutes

Ludhiana-Jalandhar track and signal up-gradation work in progress

Soon, travel between Ludhiana-Jalandhar in 31 minutes

Ferozepur, January 19, 2021:  Soon, the travel time between Ludhiana and Jalandhar will come down soon to 31 minutes only, as the approval to increase the speed on Sahnewal-Ludhiana at a speed of 130 km per hour has been received from Commission of Railway Safety -CRS.  The trials are on as of now and soon the passenger trains will run at a speed of 130 km per hour between Delhi-Ludhiana.

The existing travel time between Ludhiana-Jalandhar is 53 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes.

Ferozepur Division DRM Rajesh Aggarwal, informed while the running of passenger trains during the corona pandemic period remain halted but at the same the modification work on the most busy tracks continued on war footing.

Accordingly, to ensure the high speed of trains at 130 km per hour on the Ludhiana-Delhi , the entire track has been modified and by the end of 2020, apart from the Sahnewal-Ludhiana track, he added.

Senior Divisional Engineer Anurag Kumar informed that presently the alteration work on Ludhiana-Jalandhar track is going on war-footing for laying heavy duty track, abolishing the cross, signal modification by using T-28 machines and shortly the trains at a speed of 130 km per hour will run on this track while the work on the remaining entire track has been completed while the work on Sutlej River is going on.

In addition, the boundary walls on both side of the tracks are also being constructed to avoid the possibility of any tragedy, said SDE.