{"id":648216,"date":"2025-09-29T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648216"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:32:59","slug":"mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-to-be-fully-operational-by-2029-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-ahmedabad-bullet-train-to-be-fully-operational-by-2029-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train to be fully operational by 2029: Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 50-km stretch of India\u2019s first high-speed rail corridor between Surat and Bilimora in Gujarat is expected to open by 2027, and the entire Mumbai-Ahmedabad section will be operational by 2029, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>After commissioning, the bullet train is expected to cover the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route in about two hours and seven minutes. Vaishnaw inspected the under-construction Surat station, including track installation and the first turnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50-km stretch of India\u2019s first high-speed rail corridor between Surat and Bilimora in Gujarat is expected to open by 2027, and the entire Mumbai-Ahmedabad section will be operational by 2029, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. After commissioning, the bullet train is expected to cover the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route in about two hours and seven minutes. Vaishnaw inspected the under-construction Surat station, including track installation and the first turnout.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648216","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=648216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}