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High-speed rail corridors
February 5 , 2026
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- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in the Union budget 2026, announced seven new high-speed rail (HSR) corridors, including two corridors from Chennai.
- Chennai is set to get two new routes of high-speed rail in the future.
- The seven HSR corridors are: Mumbai to Pune, Pune to Hyderabad, Chennai to Bengaluru, Chennai to Hyderabad, Hyderabad to Bengaluru, Delhi to Varanasi, and Varanasi to Siliguri.
- Three of the seven high-speed rail corridors announced in the Union Budget 2026-27, connect Hyderabad.
- The project would be executed by National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL).
- The trains in the new high-speed rail corridor would be operated at a minimum speed of 230 km/h.
- While the bullet trains would be operated at a speed of 370 km/h.
- For the HSR corridor, new tracks, similar to international standards, similar to those of bullet trains, would be constructed.
- The HSR corridors would be operated between cities where most passengers undertake air travel.
- These corridors will be of 4000 km in length, and be developed at an outlay of ₹16 lakh crore.
- At present, the Chennai to Bengaluru travel time in trains, including the Vande Bharat, is around six hours, and more than 12 hours to Hyderabad.
- The corridors will reduce travel time between Chennai to Bengaluru to 1.5 hours, Bengaluru to Hyderabad to 2 hours, Hyderabad to Chennai to 2 hours and 55 minutes.
- The FM also announced a new dedicated freight corridor connecting Dankuni in West Bengal to Surat in Gujarat.
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