Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor

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Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor or Eastern DFC is a freight specific railway under construction in northern to eastern India by Indian Railways. The railway will run between Ludhiana in Punjab and Dankuni (near Kolkata) in West Bengal. The railway is one of the multiple freight corridors. For the railway line, broad gauge will be used. The Eastern DFC will mostly have double tracks and will be electrified but the section from Ludhiana in Punjab to Khurja (Bulandshahr) in Uttar Pradesh 400 Km will be single line electrified due to lack of space. This freight corridor will cover a total distance of 1839 km. This corridor will also pass through Dadri, which is the origin point of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and which will serve as a junction.

Route
The freight corridor will cover first 447 km of Ludhiana - Dhari - Khurja section with single electrified track. After this the remaining line will be double track electrified up to Dankuni in West Bengal. This will pass through the important districts of Sahnewal, Doraha, Ludhiana, Sirhind, Rajpura, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Barhan, Tundla, Firozabad, Etawah, Kanpur, Allahabad and Mughalsarai. To reduce load over the main line, this line will have many junctions. The proposed junctions on this line are Dhandharikalan, Sirhind, Rajpura, Khalanaur, Khurja, Daudkhan, Tundla, Bhaupur, Prempur, Karchhana, Jeonathpur, Mughalsarai, Ganjkhwaja, Sasaram, Son Nagar, Gomoh, Andal, Bardhaman and Dankuni (The eastern terminal point).

Status
This corridor is divided into multiple section for contracting purposes.

See also
 Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
 Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India
 High-speed rail in India

External links
 Eastern DFC
 Map of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
 Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) Official link for project status

References

Category:Transport in Ludhiana
Category:Dedicated freight corridors of India
Category:Rail transport in Uttar Pradesh
Category:Rail transport in Jharkhand
Category:5 ft 6 in gauge railways in India