{"id":485223,"date":"2022-04-19T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T04:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=485223"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:52:16","slug":"bengaluru-hubballi-train-travel-to-take-1-hour-less-by-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bengaluru-hubballi-train-travel-to-take-1-hour-less-by-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru-Hubballi train travel to take 1 hour less by 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel time between Bengaluru and Hubballi will come down by 1 hour from next year as the South Western Railway (SWR) has set the target of completing the doubling and electrification of the entire line by March 2023. <\/p>\n<p>A major trunk route, the Bengaluru-Hubballi section sees operation of 24 trains, including nine daily trains.<\/p>\n<p>However, even the fastest train between the two cities \u2013 Jan Shatabdi Express \u2013 still takes a minimum of 7 hours, against the specified travel time of 6 hours 30 minutes, to complete the 469-km journey. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said the works on two key sections of the route, which were held up due to delay in land acquisition on a 45-km stretch, have been speeded up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel time between Bengaluru and Hubballi will come down by 1 hour from next year as the South Western Railway (SWR) has set the target of completing the doubling and electrification of the entire line by March 2023. A major trunk route, the Bengaluru-Hubballi section sees operation of 24 trains, including nine daily trains. However, even the fastest train between the two cities \u2013 Jan Shatabdi Express \u2013 still takes a minimum of 7 hours, against the specified travel time of 6 hours 30 minutes, to complete the 469-km journey. Officials said the works on two key sections of the [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485223","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=485223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}