Haldia & Calcutta on high-speed rail radar

New Delhi : India’s first high-speed train, supposed to travel at 250-300km per hour, would run between Haldia and Calcutta, railway sources have said. An interim study for the high-speed service has been submitted by a Spanish consortium to the government for the 135km Calcutta-Haldia stretch. Officials said since the Haldia stretch was the shortest of the six proposed high-speed corridors for which the studies were being done, its report “came in the first and will probably take the least time to set up”.