{"id":657945,"date":"2026-01-23T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657945"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:29:45","slug":"railway-budget-2026-from-vande-bharat-to-kavach-what-a-decade-of-railway-capex-push-has-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-budget-2026-from-vande-bharat-to-kavach-what-a-decade-of-railway-capex-push-has-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Budget 2026: From Vande Bharat to Kavach &#8211; what a decade of railway capex push has delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Budget 2026, a decade of sustained capital expenditure by Indian Railways is offering a clear snapshot of what long-term investment in the sector has delivered \u2014 from modern Vande Bharat and Amrit Bharat trains to near-total network electrification and the rollout of Kavach safety systems.<\/p>\n<p>With budgetary allocations expected to remain range-bound in 2026\u201327, recent data highlights how consistent capex over the last ten years has translated into visible upgrades across safety, new trains and core railway infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Budget 2026, a decade of sustained capital expenditure by Indian Railways is offering a clear snapshot of what long-term investment in the sector has delivered \u2014 from modern Vande Bharat and Amrit Bharat trains to near-total network electrification and the rollout of Kavach safety systems. With budgetary allocations expected to remain range-bound in 2026\u201327, recent data highlights how consistent capex over the last ten years has translated into visible upgrades across safety, new trains and core railway infrastructure.<\/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":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657945","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=657945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}