{"id":290172,"date":"2019-09-03T05:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290172"},"modified":"2019-09-03T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:10:09","slug":"vp-inaugurates-indias-longest-electrified-rail-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vp-inaugurates-indias-longest-electrified-rail-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"VP inaugurates India&#8217;s longest electrified rail tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu here on Sunday dedicated the country&#8217;s longest electrified rail tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru and the electrified railway line between Venkatachalam and Obulavaripalli. <\/p>\n<p>Besides inaugurating the re-modelled yard at Guduru railway station, the Vice-President also flagged-off a new inter-city superfast express train between Guduru and Vijayawada. <\/p>\n<p>Naidu termed the 6.7-km-long tunnel an &#8220;engineering marvel&#8221; and said it would provide viable rail connectivity between the Krishnapatnam Port and the hinterland for seamless movement of freight. The tunnel, built at a cost of Rs 437 crore, has 44 trolley refuges and 14 cross-passages in a horseshoe design. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am overwhelmed with emotion as my long-cherished childhood dream has now come true,&#8221; the Vice-President remarked, recalling his trip on the newly-commissioned Obulavaripalli-Krishnapatnam line on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu here on Sunday dedicated the country&#8217;s longest electrified rail tunnel between Cherlopalli and Rapuru and the electrified railway line between Venkatachalam and Obulavaripalli. Besides inaugurating the re-modelled yard at Guduru railway station, the Vice-President also flagged-off a new inter-city superfast express train between Guduru and Vijayawada. Naidu termed the 6.7-km-long tunnel an &#8220;engineering marvel&#8221; and said it would provide viable rail connectivity between the Krishnapatnam Port and the hinterland for seamless movement of freight. The tunnel, built at a cost of Rs 437 crore, has 44 trolley refuges and 14 cross-passages in a horseshoe design. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}