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Kashmir train's trial run through Pir Panjal
tunnel successful
Friday December 28, 2012 11:15:57 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: The trial
run of a train through the 11.2 km-long tunnel - India's longest -
across the Pir Panjal Mountain range in the Kashmir Valley was
successfully completed Friday, officials said. Regular services
could begin by March.
The trial run started from the Qazigund railway station in south
Kashmir's Anantnag district where dozens of locals had gathered to
witness the event.
A.P. Mishra, member of the railway board, said during the trial
run that regular train services between Banihal town and the
Valley would start in March next year. He also said the entire
railway project connecting the Valley with the rest of the country
would be completed by 2017.
The 11.2 km-long tunnel, which is the longest in the country,
would reduce the distance between Srinagar and Jammu by nearly 35
km as it by-passes the travel over the Pir Panjal Mountain range.
The 8.40 metres wide, 7.39 metre high tunnel, which has the
provision of a three-metre-wide road along its length, will also
ensure an all-weather passage between the Valley and the Jammu
region.
At present, heavy snowfall on the Pir Panjal Mountain range in the
Bannihal sector of the Srinagar-Jammu highway results in frequent
closures of the road during the winters.
Train services are presently on regularly between Anantnag,
central Kashmir's Srinagar/Badgam and north Kashmir's Baramulla
districts.
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