Indian Railway (IR) has approved the doubling of the 14 km Tadali-Ghugus railway section on the Wardha-Balharshah section of the Delhi-Chennai High Density Network (HDN) in Maharashtra.
The project has been sanctioned under the umbrella works for doubling, tripling, quadrupling, flyover and bypass works aimed at enhancing the capacity of the railway network.
The Tadali–Ghugus section is currently a single-line stretch on the Wardha–Balharshah route. The doubling project is expected to improve train operations and cater to the growing demand for freight movement on the route and is primarily freight-oriented, handling transportation of coal, iron ore, gypsum, petroleum products, sand and laterite ash. Upon completion, the project is expected to facilitate additional freight traffic of 4.5 million tonnes per annum.