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By PTI Dec 3, 2022 9:25:41 AM IST (Published)
According to Western Railway officials, the stainless steel fences will be a "w-beam" structure at a height of 1.5 metres from the ground. "We are going to install it (w-beam) at a height of 1.5 meters. The advantage is that people can cross it but not animals," Misra explained.
The Western Railway (WR) has said it would install fences along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route by May next year to stop animals from straying onto the tracks and getting run over by trains, a move coming in the backdrop of the prestigious Vande Bharat Express hitting cattle four times since its launch on September 30.
Addressing a press conference at the railway zone's headquarters at Churchgate in Mumbai on Friday, WR General Manager Ashok Kumar Misra said tenders have been invited for the construction of the fences on the 620-kilometer-long route, which is expected to cost Rs 264 crore.
The third semi-high-speed Vande Bharat Express, flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 30 between Gandhinagar in Gujarat and the country's financial capital, has hit cattle four times so far, leading to minor damage to the aerodynamic nose of the state-of-the-art rake.