{"id":608620,"date":"2023-10-06T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T04:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=608620"},"modified":"2023-10-06T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:06:54","slug":"mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-nhsrcl-completes-first-mountain-tunnel-in-gujarats-valsad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-nhsrcl-completes-first-mountain-tunnel-in-gujarats-valsad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train: NHSRCL completes first mountain tunnel in Gujarat&#8217;s Valsad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The corporation constructing India&#8217;s first high-speed rail corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on Thursday announced the completion of its first 350-metre-long mountain tunnel near Zaroli village in Valsad district of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) celebrated the moment by carrying out a final blast to remove the last layers of rock close to the entrance of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The biggest challenge for us was how to keep the alignment of the tunnel absolutely straight because the bullet train will run at 350 kmph speed and a minor alignment flaw can play a spoilsport. So, every specification has to be followed precisely and you will not find a deviation of even a single millimetre,&#8217; S P Mittal, Chief Project Manager of the Valsad section, told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corporation constructing India&#8217;s first high-speed rail corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad on Thursday announced the completion of its first 350-metre-long mountain tunnel near Zaroli village in Valsad district of Gujarat. National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) celebrated the moment by carrying out a final blast to remove the last layers of rock close to the entrance of the tunnel. &#8216;The biggest challenge for us was how to keep the alignment of the tunnel absolutely straight because the bullet train will run at 350 kmph speed and a minor alignment flaw can play a spoilsport. So, every specification has [&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-608620","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\/608620","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=608620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}