Ahmedabad–Udaipur Line

The Ahmedabad–Udaipur Line is a railway route of both Western and North Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. It plays an important role in short-connectivity reaching to North India and Eastern India from Gujarat and Coastal areas of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka & Kerala.

This corridor passes through the ranges of Arvalli of Northern Gujarat and Udaipur division of Rajasthan, In this area, there is also a mine of Zinc and Phosphate in Zawar and Umra which it makes direct and important mineral transportation to rest of India with a stretch of

This mainline route is divided into two sections:

1) The first section is of Ahmedabad–Himmatnagar Junction with the length of comes under the jurisdiction of Western Railways.

2) The second section is Himmatnagar Junction–Udaipur City with a length of comes under the jurisdiction of North Western Railways.

Also contains two branch lines of this corridor which both are comes in Western Railways these are:

1) The first branch line is Himmatnagar Junction–Khed Bramha with a length of

2) The second branch line is Nadiad–Kapadvanj–Modasa Branch line with the length of .

History

This route was opened in 1879 by Ahmedabad–Parantij Railway till Prantij and Himmatnagar and later it was extended by two phases, the first phase was Himmatnagar–Idar which was opened at the same year and then in 1901 the second phase was Idar–Khed Bramha was opened and become a total length of from Ahmedabad which was a metre-gauge railway line.

In 1886 the survey and construction of long Himmatnagar–Udaipur line which also was a Meter-gauge railway line was started and the rail operations began in 1891 with flagging off Delhi Sarai Rohilla–Ahmedabad Express for direct connecting to Delhi and Udaipur from Ahmedabad via Himmatnagar. This line came to be known as Metre Gauge Mainline with the other Metre Gauge line via , being called as the Chord Line. But in 1997 the other Metre Gauge line via , became Broad Gauge line & was made as Delhi-Jaipur-Ahmedabad Mainline

Whereas the branch line section of Nadiad–Kapadvanj was opened on 5 March 1916 by Guzerat Railway Company with the length of which was a narrow-gauge railway route. In 1961 it was converted to broad gauge and in the same year the survey and construction of Kapadvanj–Modasa section which is an extension of a branch line was started with a length of . But it was halted for two decades and after that the construction was revived again in the year 2000 and became operational on 28 October 2001 with directly connecting to Nadiad with the total length of .

Projects

Currently, there is a gauge conversion of the whole mainline with branches by the joint operation of Western Railways and North Western Railways is going on from 1 January 2017.
And also the Modasa–Shamlaji rail line with the length of is also going to be constructed which connects the Nadiad–Modasa branch line with the Ahmedabad–Udaipur mainline for shortening the route of Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Rest of Gujarat to North India with direct passenger services.

In this Joint project, the first section of the mainline from the Western Railways zone side gets totally converted into the broad gauge and DEMU trains are also started running on that route from 15 October 2019.Western Railways
Retrieved 15 August 2020 The Broad Gauge conversion has been completed and On 31st OCTOBER, 2022, Prime minister Shri Narendra Modi flagged off asarwa - udaipur express vide train number is 19703-19704 daily service.
Further, asarwa-jaipur train approved by the Railway Board but yet to be started.

See also

* Ahmedabad–Udaipur Express

References

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Rail transport in Rajasthan
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