Meanwhile, the Sabarmati Terminal Station, serving as the terminal for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) Corridor, draws its design inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s charkha at Sabarmati Ashram.

Spanning an area of about 45,094 sqm, the station features four platforms and stands at a height of 44 metres from ground level. Currently, the foundation work is complete, and the casting work for the first-floor slab is in progress.

The bullet train alignment also includes a bridge over the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat. The bridge, with a length of 480 metres and spanning a river width of 350 metres, features spans of 76 metres and 50 metres.

The piers range in height from 31 to 33.5 metres and have diameters of 6 metres and 6.5 metres. Situated between the Sabarmati and Ahmedabad bullet train stations, the bridge's foundation works are currently underway.

Additionally, the Sabarmati Rolling Stock Depot is being developed with inspiration from Shinkansen depots in Japan. As the largest of the three depots, it covers an area of approximately 83 hectares, as per Times Of India report.

The depot will house state-of-the-art equipment for both light and heavy maintenance, including inspection bays, a washing plant, workshops, sheds, and stabling lines.

Some of the largest industrial sheds will be part of the depot, and the construction is progressing well, with the OHE foundation work and RCC works for the administrative building currently underway.

India’s First Bullet Train Project

The high-speed rail operating at 320 kmph will traverse along west India’s landscape, covering a 508.17 km distance between Mumbai and Ahmedabad in just about two hours.

This will save time compared to current travel time between the two terminal stations by about nine hours (by bus) or six hours (by conventional railways).

It will cover 155.76 km in Maharashtra, 4.3 km in the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 348.04 km in Gujarat, with 12 stations en route.

High Speed Rail (HSR)

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