{"id":25708,"date":"2020-07-27T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=25708"},"modified":"2020-07-27T06:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T06:31:47","slug":"worlds-first-electrified-rail-tunnel-for-running-double-stack-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/worlds-first-electrified-rail-tunnel-for-running-double-stack-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first electrified Rail Tunnel for running double-stack containers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian Railways is constructing the world&#8217;s first electrified double-stack container tunnel near Haryana. A double-stack container goods train will be able to run at a speed of more than 100 km from within this tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The one-km tunnel is located on the Rewari-Dadri section of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC). The tunnel connects Mewat and Gurgaon district of Haryana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tunnel has provision for double line electrified track for double stacks train movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geologically this tunnel is safe and stable as it is caved through 250 to 500 million year old proterozoic rocks which have high bearing capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Western DFC and most parts of the Eastern DFC are slated for completion in June 2022, which will make the movement of freight trains seamless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railways is constructing the world&#8217;s first electrified double-stack container tunnel near Haryana. A double-stack container goods train will be able to run at a speed of more than 100 km from within this tunnel. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The one-km tunnel is located on the Rewari-Dadri section of the Western Dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":25709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[66],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-25708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-railway-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25710,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25708\/revisions\/25710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25708"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=25708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}