{"id":655334,"date":"2025-12-05T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655334"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:11:12","slug":"shorter-rail-route-from-bengaluru-to-vijayapura-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shorter-rail-route-from-bengaluru-to-vijayapura-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter rail route from Bengaluru to Vijayapura likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The long-pending plan to operate trains between Bengaluru and Vijayapura, bypassing the Hubballi and Gadag station, has moved a step forward, with South Western Railway (SWR) officials confirming that there are no technical hurdles in implementing it. <\/p>\n<p>However, introducing a new train will require fresh approval from the Railway Board, they said at a review meeting chaired by Infrastructure Development Minister MB Patil in Bengaluru on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The long-pending plan to operate trains between Bengaluru and Vijayapura, bypassing the Hubballi and Gadag station, has moved a step forward, with South Western Railway (SWR) officials confirming that there are no technical hurdles in implementing it. However, introducing a new train will require fresh approval from the Railway Board, they said at a review meeting chaired by Infrastructure Development Minister MB Patil in Bengaluru on Wednesday.<\/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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655334","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=655334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}