South Central Railway (SCR) has been firming up infrastructure upgrade expeditiously in the last few years in taking up doubling, tripling and in a few cases, even quadrupling of railway lines in order to run more trains — passengers/freight.
Its very first quadrupling project along with electrification and automatic signalling system between Moula Ali and Ghatkesar for 12.2 km was completed three years ago under MMTS Phase II works at a cost of ₹200 crore while doubling and electrification between 22.4 km Moula Ali and Sanathnagar is underway under the same project.
But, the railways attempt to bypass Secunderabad railway station to run more freight trains, thus freeing the space to run more passenger or local suburban MMTS trains may not fructify unless the 8-km section between Moula Ali and Secunderabad station is also further strengthened with more lines, say railway officials.
