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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
V. Geetanath

SCR to complete significant rail lines in busy sections soon

South Central Railway (SCR) is planning to complete and commission little more than 250 km of key railway lines pertaining to certain busy sections in the next few months. These include 70.98 km of new lines, 156.58 km of double lines and 30.56 km of third line works.

The new line projects where the works are to be completed in full are: Bhadrachalam - Sattupalli with the section Chandurugonda - Sattupalli of about 29 km and the 17.20 km of Akkanapet - Medak. In the Manoharabad-Kothapalli route, upto Gajwel it has been completed and now the 11.53 km upto Kodakandla is also expected to be ready as also Magnur-Makthal section of 13.25 km of Munirabad-Mahabubnagar line, informed senior officials on Tuesday.

In the doubling lines work the 25 km Gollapalli-Mahabubnagar section of the Secunderabad-Mahabubnagar route is expected to be completed. A few days ago, the 10.45 km of double line between Mahabubnagar – Divitipalli in this route has already been commissioned.

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