New Delhi: A major leap in India’s rail infrastructure is on the horizon. Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw has confirmed that the country’s first bullet train will run between Gujarat’s Surat and Vapi, a 100 km stretch, by August 2027.

This will not merely a test run. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, spanning 508 km, is being built to allow trains to run at 320 km/h.

According to the minister, the full journey between Ahmedabad and Mumbai will take 1 hour 58 minutes if the train stops only at four stations. With all 12 stations included, the time would stretch to 2 hours 17 minutes.

Vaishnaw described the tunnel breakthrough on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor as a “landmark achievement”, pointing to its engineering challenges. The tunnel is a single-tube, 13.1-m

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