Railway in Haryana


Rail network in the state of Haryana in India, is covered by 5 rail divisions under 3 rail zones, namely, North Western Railway zone, Northern Railway zone and North Central Railway zone.
Diamond Quadrilateral High-speed rail network Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor pass through Haryana.

History

Haryana railway history

19th Century

On 3 March 1859, Allahabad-Kanpur, the first passenger railway line in North India was opened, which falls under Northern Railway zone.
In 1864, train tracks passed through Haryana for the first time when a broad gauge track from Calcutta to Delhi was laid. In 1866, through trains started running on the East Indian Railway Company's Howrah-Delhi line.
In 1870, the Sind, Punjab and Delhi railway completed the long Amritsar - Ambala - Jagadhri- Saharanpur - Ghaziabad line connecting Multan with Delhi.
In 1872, Sarai Rohilla railway station was established when the metre gauge railway line from Delhi to Jaipur and Ajmer was being laid. It was a small station just outside Delhi as Delhi was confined to walled city then. All the metre gauge trains starting from Delhi to Rewari, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat passed through this station. The track from Delhi to Sarai Rohilla was double. The single track from Sarai Rohilla to Rewari was doubled up to Rewari, from where single tracks diverged in five directions.
In 1876, metre gauge track from Delhi to Rewari and further to Ajmer was laid in 1873 by Rajputana State Railway.
In 1879, the Sind, Punjab and Delhi railway completed the Amritsar–Ambala–Saharanpur–Ghaziabad line connecting Multan with Delhi.
In 1884, The Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari section of Delhi–Fazilka line to Bathinda, which was The Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi-Bathinda-Samasatta line in 1897. The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta to Karachi.
In 1884, the Rajputana-Malwa Railway extended the wide metre gauge Delhi-Rewari line to Bathinda. The Bathinda-Rewari metre gauge line was converted to wide broad gauge in 1994.
In 1891, the Delhi-Panipat-Ambala-Kalka line was opened.
In 1891, the Delhi-Panipat-Ambala-Kalka line was opened The wide narrow gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway was constructed by Delhi-Panipat-Ambala-Kalka Railway Company and opened for traffic in 1903. In 1905 the line was regauged to wide narrow gauge.
In 1897, the Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi-Bhatinda-Samasatta line in 1897. The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta to Karachi.

20th Century

In 1900, Jodhpur–Bikaner line combined with Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway, some part of this railway is in Pakistan, leading to connection with Hyderabad of Sindh Province. In 1901–02, the Jodhpur–Bikaner line was extended to Bathinda in 1901–02 to connect it with the metre gauge section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the meter gauge of North Western Railway Delhi–Fazilka line via Hanumangarh.
In 1901-02, the metre gauge Jodhpur-Bikaner line was extended to Bathinda by Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway. It was subsequently converted to broad gauge.
The station building was renovated in 2012-13. Delhi earlier handled both broad and meter gauge trains. Since 1994, it is a purely broad gauge station, meter gauge traffic having been shifted to Delhi Sarai Rohilla Station.
In April 1919, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested from Palwal railway station on his way to Punjab to take part to the Non-Cooperation Movement meeting. There also a six-foot statue of Mahatma Gandhi was installed in October 2013.
In 1926, New Delhi railway station opened. Before the new imperial capital New Delhi was established after 1911, the Old Delhi Railway Station served the entire city and the Agra-Delhi railway line cut through what is today called Lutyens' Delhi and the site earmarked for the hexagonal All-India War Memorial and Kingsway. The railway line was shifted along Yamuna river and opened in 1924 to make way for the new capital. Minto and Hardinge rail bridges came up for this realigned line. The East Indian Railway Company, that overlooked railways in the region, sanctioned the construction of a single story building and a single platform between Ajmeri Gate and Paharganj in 1926. This was later known as New Delhi Railway station. The government's plans to have the new station built inside the Central Park of Connaught Place was rejected by the Railways as it found the idea impractical. In 1927–28, New Delhi Capital Works project involving construction of of new lines was completed. The Viceroy and royal retinue entered the city through the new railway station during the inauguration of New Delhi in 1931. New structures were added to the railway station later and the original building served as the parcel office for many years.
In 1951, on 5 November the Jodhpur–Bikaner line was merged with the Western Railway. Sometime around or prior to 1991, the construction work for the conversion from meter gauge to wide broad gauge of the Jodhpur–Bikaner line, along with the link to Phulera, were started, and it was already functioning as broad gauge Jodhpur–Merta City–Bikaner–Bathinda line by 2008. In 2002, on 1 October the North Western Railway zone came into existence.
On 14 April 1952, Northern Railway zone was notified as a new railway zone by merging Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway and three divisions of the East Indian Railway north-west of Mughalsarai.
In 1976-77, the Ghaziabad-Nizamuddin-New Delhi-Delhi track was electrified.
On 1 July 1987, Ambala railway division was created by transferring 639 km tracks from Delhi Division and 348 km from Firozpur Division, and it became completely operational from 15 August 1988. 62% its are lies Punjab and the rest in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chandigarh. It has 141 stations, including UNESCO World Heritage Kalka Shimla Railway.
In 1992-1995, Sabjimandi-Karnal sector was electrified.
In 1994 December, the Delhi-Rewari railway line had double metre gauge tracks and one of the tracks was converted to broad gauge as a part of conversion of Ajmer-Delhi line. Within a few years, both the tracks from Sarai Rohilla to Delhi railway station were converted to broad gauge and all metre gauge trains stopped operating from Delhi station.
In 1998-99, Ambala-Chandigarh sector was electrified.
In 1999-2000, Chandigarh-Kalka.

21st Century

On 1 April 2003, North Central Railway zone was created.
By September 2006, the second metre gauge track from Sarai Rohilla to Rewari was also converted to broad gauge and all metre gauge trains stopped operating between Rewari and Sarai Rohilla.
Between 2008-2011, the Bikaner-Rewari line was converted to broad gauge.
In 2009, the metre gauge Hisar-Sadulpur section was converted to broad gauge.
In 2010-11 Rail Budget, Panipat-Meerut line 104 km survey was announced and the project implementation was approved in 2017-18 budget with an outlay of INR948 crore.
In 2013, Chandigarh-Sahnewal line was inaugurated.
In 2013, the foundation stone for the shifting of Rohtak-Makrauli section of Rohtak- Gohana- Panipat line was laid.
In 2013, the new broad gauge electrified Rewari-Rohtak line was constructed.
In 2016-17 Rail Budget, Yamunanagar-Chandigarh line re-survey for this INR875 crore line was announced at the cost of INR 25 crore.
By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks to alter train divers running trains on snail's pace. With these devices, train pilots precisely know in advance, about the location of signals, level-crossing gates and other such approaching markers.
In 2017-18, Indian Railway approved Panipat-Jind line and Panipat-Rohtak line electrification for Rs 980 crore and new rail line Panipat-Shamli-Baghpat-Meerut for Rs 2200 crore.
By December 2017, railways for the first time installed 6,095 GPS-enabled "Fog Pilot Assistance System" railway signalling devices in four most affected zones, Northern Railway zone, North Central Railway zone, North Eastern Railway zone and North Western Railway zone, by doing away with the old practice of putting firecrackers on train tracks to alter train divers running trains on snail's pace. With these devices, train pilots precisely know in advance, about the location of signals, level-crossing gates and other such approaching markers.

Museums

Map and plans

has produced the railway map for Haryana and rail line under implementation are included in the current "pink book" of railway.

Divisions and workshops

Rail network in Haryana falls under 5 divisions in 3 railway zones, each division has own workshops.
Existing Rail lines
Haryana current projects
Undertaken by IR and "Rail Infrastructure Development Company Limited".
Feasibility study survey was completed for the first 7 projects in 10 months from 1 Jan to 31 Oct 2018.
Under consideration for future inclusion, not yet approved, not yet surveyed
Pink book projects under construction as per live map in the citation:
NCR projects
This is live rail map in citation.
Himachal Pradesh
, Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor pass through Haryana.

Special rail

UNESCO Heritage rails
Sri Krishna circuit on Vrindavan-Mathura-Govardhan-Barsana-Kurukshetra route and Hemu heritage circuit on Delhi-Rewari-Madhogarh-Panipat route. Other potential circuits are Prithviraj circuit on Faridabad-Taraori-Asigarh Fort-Hisar-Tosham route, Haryana Buddha circuit on Hisar-Agroha Mound-Fatehabad-Kurukshetra-Topra-Sugh-Chaneti.
Luxury rail
are the Delhi-Rewari Fairy Queen Heritage Train and the proposed Delhi-Rewari-Madhogarh Heritage Rail Circuit.

High-speed rail

Semi-High Speed rail: 160-200 km

will be converted to the average speed of 160–200 km per hour. The project was conceived in 2014.
Delhi-Chandigarh semi high speed rail corridor with 200 km/hr via Ambala Cantt and Panipat will commence construction work in 2019. Cost of this corridor 11,218 crore.
Rapid Rail Transport System (RRTS)
The under-construction Delhi-Alwar RRTS and Delhi-Sonepat-Panipat RRTS will pass through Haryana. In 2017 December, National Capital Region Transport Corporation signed agreements with Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias and Société nationale des chemins de fer français to cooperate on the development of rapid rail smart projects, including Delhi-Meerut Smart Line, Delhi-Panipat Smart Line and Delhi-Alwar Smart Line have been prioritised for implementation in the first phase of NCR RRTS where these three lines will operate from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi. Designed with 180 km/h design speed, 160 km/h operational speed, and 100 km/h average speed, of six-car trains carrying 1,154 passengers running every 5 to 10 minutes on either underground or elevated point-to-point tracks where passengers will not have to change trains. 35-40% funding will be equity from Centre and state governments and the remaining 60% will come from multilateral funding agencies.
and Delhi–Amritsar high-speed rail of Diamond Quadrilateral High-speed rail network via Sohna-Rewari-Narnaul will pass through Haryana. The Ministry of Railways has established the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited as a government company on 12 February 2016 to promote high-speed rail corridors. The Indian Ministry of Railways' white-paper "Vision 2020", envisages the implementation of regional high-speed rail projects to provide services at 250–350 km/h, and planning for corridors connecting commercial, tourist, and pilgrimage hubs. Six corridors have been identified for technical studies on setting up of high-speed elevated rail corridors, including the following 2 passing through Haryana:

Personal Rail Transport (PRT) Metrino

-Gurugram-Manesar Personal rapid transit, also called Metrino, was initiated in Dec 2017 by the Government of India by inviting fresh expression of interest from the providers.

Metro train

Current

In June 2017, the Government of Haryana's cabinet approved the investment of INR 968.20, as its share on the 80:20 equity ratio with the union government, for the extension of Delhi Metro from the existing Rithala metro station to Sonipat via Bawana with three elevated stations at Sector 5 of Narela in Delhi, on Delhi border at Kundli Industrial Area and Nathupur Industrial Area in Sonipat, which are planned to be built starting from April 2018 and to be completed by March 2022 as part of the Phase IV. There are plans to further extend this line deeper into the Sonipat city and beyond to Murthal in the future.
An extension of Green Line from Mundka along the NH 9 will under construction and on schedule to be completed by December 2017.
An extension of Green Line from Bahadurgarh, proposed only and not yet approved as of July 2017.
From the existing Rithala metro station to the new stations in Rohini and Bawana industrial area, to Kharkhoda in Haryana, and up to Rohtak via Sisana as second line to Rohtak. As of July 2017, proposed only and not yet approved.
from existing Blue line to Najafgarh and Kharkari in Delhi to Badli in Haryana on Jhajjar border and Jhajjar city in Haryana. As of July 2017, proposed only and not yet approved.
from the existing Blue line at Dwarka to AIIMS Jhajjar at Badsha, Farukh Nagar and Gurugram in Haryana. As of July 2017, proposed only and not yet approved.
As second connection via Kapashera and Bijwasan on Haryana border. To complete the metro ring around Gurugram, a proposal was prepared in November 2017 for the two missing routes,
for Blue Line "HUDA City Centre metro station" to Dwarka Sector 21 metro station,
from HUDA City Centre metro station to Gurgaon railway station.
An extension of the existing yellow line at Gurugram to Manesar Industrial township in the west. In May 2017, a joint study by HUDA and Haryana Town and Planning found the proposal to be technically and financially viable and Detailed Project Report is being prepared for the approval.
From existing Balramgarh to Palwal district headquarters. As of July 2017, proposed only and not yet approved.

Multimodel Transit Centres (MMTC)

are being built, each one along the Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway in the vicinity of railway stations, metro, RRTS and major national highways. These MMTCs will be located at:
In Mahendragarh district, with US$3.3 billion or INR86,000 crore the initial investment the Integrated Multimodel Logistics Hub at Nangal Choudhary is part of Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project.
In Sonepat district, is part of Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and also located in the influence zone of the Amritsar Delhi Kolkata Industrial Corridor on Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
In Faridabad district, with more than US$10 billion already invested by 2017 is part of Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and also located in the influence zone of the Amritsar Delhi Kolkata Industrial Corridor on Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
In Rewari district, is a large industrial centre has been developed by the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation. It is part of Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and also located in the influence zone of the Amritsar Delhi Kolkata Industrial Corridor on Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.

Issues

Multiple issues include the lack of progress on announced projects, lack of comprehensive long-term transport needs analysis and planning, lack of funding, lack of connectivity, lack of integration with multimodel transport, lack of effective utilization of existing infrastructure such as integrated logistics and industrial hubs, land acquisition, etc.