Archive for January 20th, 2009

Are Indians Favorites Or UnderDogs?

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by by

India is touring to New Zealand to play 2 T20s , 5 ODIS and 3 Test Matches. They are bound to show their prowess now to kiwis after nailing the aussies 2-0 in their previous ODI series down under. It is now to be seen if they’ll do the same or go one step ahead [...]

Improvement in Indian Rails

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by by

A great deal of attention has been paid in recent years to the desirability and possibility of high speed corridors in the Indian context. The introduction of high speed train services have been started in number of countries since the early 1980s and are still an ambition for Indian Railways which is still to [...]

Indian Rail Speed Restrictions

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by by

The maximum permissible speed of even Rajdhani routes is only 120 kmph. Further the train corridors are affected by permanent/temporary speed restrictions due to technical deficiencies like Weak formation, Turnouts taking off from curves, Sharp curves and reverse curves, Unserviceable turnout sleepers and unserviceable bridge sleepers, Poor visibility on approaches of LC gate and [...]