{"id":501535,"date":"2022-06-29T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=501535"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T05:48:07","slug":"delhi-howrah-travel-may-be-cut-by-2-5-to-3-hours-indian-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-howrah-travel-may-be-cut-by-2-5-to-3-hours-indian-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi-Howrah travel may be cut by 2.5 to 3 hours: Indian Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways will shorten the travel time between New Delhi and Kolkata by at least two and a half hours by increasing the highest speed of trains to 160 kmph, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The plan along the 1,525-km route will be carried out under project Mission Raftar, which aims to reduce travel time along busy stretches by running passenger trains at a speed of 160 kmph. A similar plan under the project is already being implemented along the 1,483-km long New Delhi-Mumbai route.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Rajdhani Express is the fastest train between New Delhi and Howrah. It takes 17.05 hours to complete the journey via Gaya in Bihar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways will shorten the travel time between New Delhi and Kolkata by at least two and a half hours by increasing the highest speed of trains to 160 kmph, officials said. The plan along the 1,525-km route will be carried out under project Mission Raftar, which aims to reduce travel time along busy stretches by running passenger trains at a speed of 160 kmph. A similar plan under the project is already being implemented along the 1,483-km long New Delhi-Mumbai route. Currently, the Rajdhani Express is the fastest train between New Delhi and Howrah. It takes 17.05 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501535","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}