The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL), in the first phase of the DFC project, is constructing the 1,504 route km of the WDFC and 1,856 route km of the Eastern DFC.The Eastern DFC will start from Sahnewal and before terminating at Dankuni, West Bengal, it will pass through the states of Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand. "Improvement in freight speed leads to cost saving for all stake holders," an official said.Ī total of approximately 2,800 route km of the whole WDFC and EDFC (excluding the Sonnagar-Dankuni PPP section) will be commissioned by June 2022. The freight train on Saturday which achieved the highest speed completed its 351 km journey in three hours and twenty minutes. However, it is to be seen if these speeds are maintained when restrictions are removed on passenger services. Over the last 18 months around six zonal railways have registered average speed of freight trains even above 50 km per hour. However, over the last year, mainly due to the restrictions on passenger traffic because of the coronavirus pandemic, freight trains on the rail network too have gained momentum with around a 60 per cent jump in average speeds, but nowhere near the pace achieved on the DFCs.ĭuring normal times, goods trains on the rail network run at an average speed of 24 kmph, but during the lockdown last year, some zones managed to double their speeds. In 2020, Union Pacifics trains reached an average speed of about 26 miles per hour. Find the speed and average speed of a train which leaves Madras at 1 p.m. Union Pacific Railroad - average train speed 2013-2020. Officials said that the high speeds being maintained on the DFCs are primarily due to the lack of restrictions on the dedicated corridors which are prevalent on the network of Indian Railways which is so congested that with time loss of up to 10 minutes per 100 km.Īnother aspect is that the curves are not more than 2.5 degree which helps in achieving the speed of 100 kmph. Speed is defined as the distance covered per unit time. On Saturday, an empty train on its way to load coal clocked 99.38 kmph, completing its journey of over 300 km in three hours and twenty minutes. The time at a terminal is not included in the measure, so this figure shows how freight is moving between terminals.