Amaravati-Hyderabad bullet train to cut travel to 70 minutes; Vaishnaw unveils south India rail plan

Travel between the State capital, Amaravati, and Hyderabad will be cut to 70 minutes on a new high-speed rail corridor, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday (April 28, 2026). He also announced that the South Coast Railway (SCoR) zone, a long-standing demand from Andhra Pradesh, would be formally notified on June 1, 2026. The bullet-train project involves a new 57-kilometre line from Errupalem to Namburu and a three-kilometre bridge across the Krishna river.Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Google AI Data Centre, Mr. Vaishnaw said the proposed high-speed network would link Amaravati, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai. Hyderabad to Pune would take one hour and 55 minutes, Pune to Mumbai 48 minutes, Chennai to Bengaluru 73 minutes, Hyderabad to Bengaluru about two hours and eight minutes, and Amaravati to Chennai 112 minutes, he said.

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