Semi-high-speed trains operating at an average speed of 125 km per hour will be able to cover the approximately 420-km Thiruvananthapuram-Kannur distance in three-and-a-half hours through standard gauge tracks in another six years, technocrat and former railway engineer E. Sreedharan said on Friday.
The trains would be able to attain a maximum speed of 200 kmph and would halt at approximately 15 stations, one located every 30 km. The alignment would differ from that of the 530-km Thiruvananthapuram-Kasaragod SilverLine semi-high-speed-rail project mooted by K-Rail which had stations every 60 km. The alignment would largely adhere to the one proposed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in its detailed project report (DPR) submitted to the United Democratic Front (UDF) government in 2015 for the Thiruvananthapuram-Kannur high-speed rail corridor, he told The Hindu over phone.
