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In this video I am showing construction site of sangaldan Railway Station site which comes under Usbrl project
The Jammu–Srinagar-Baramulla railway line is a railway track being laid to connect the Kashmir Valley in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir with Jammu railway station and thence to the rest of the country. The 345 km railway track begins at Jammu and ends at Baramulla. It is in the jurisdiction of the Firozpur railway division of Indian Railways' Northern zone. The railway line is divided into four sections:
Leg 0, running 53 km from Jammu to Udhampur and completed in April 2005.
Leg 1, running 25 km from Udhampur to Katra. The section was dedicated on 4 July 2014
Leg 2, running 148 km from Katra to Banihal. Under construction, it may open in 2021.
Leg 3 running 112 km from Banihal to Baramulla and originally expected to open in October 2009.The line from Baramulla to the Banihal tunnel is 119 km long.
Leg 2, running 148 km from Katra to Banihal is under construction, may be completed in 2021. Construction on the leg has been beset by technical difficulties with alignment and disputes with contractors, and was originally expected to be finished in 2017-18. This is the line's most difficult section of the rail line, with 62 bridges and a number of tunnels totaling 10 km out of total 129 km. It requires 262 km of access roads connecting 147,000 people in 73 villages; 160 km, connecting 29 villages, is completed.
In July 2008, work on part of the Katra-Banihal section was suspended for a possible realignment. The alternative alignment, proposed by the railway, reduced the track length from 126 km to 67 km. A committee appointed by the Railway Board recommended abandoning 93 km of the previously-approved alignment. On 12 November 2014, the Delhi High Court directed the central government to appoint a committee to review the 126 km-long section.
An 18 km stretch of Leg 2, betweenQuazigund and Banihal, was authorized on 26 June 2013 The stretch includes the 11.215-km (7-mile) Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel, also known as the Banihal railway tunnel. India's longest rail tunnel, it is 8.4 m wide and 7.39 m high. The tunnel includes a 3 m-wide service road for maintenance and emergency use. Its average elevation, 1760 m, is 440 m below the existing road tunnel.
The tunnel facilitates transportation during winter (when inclement weather closes the Srinagar-Jammu highway), and halves the distance between Quazigund and Banihal (35 km by road and 17.5 km by train). The Banihal railway station is 1,702 m (5,584 ft) above mean sea level, and trains run from Banihal to Qazigund through the tunnel. The 5 km Banganga section was expected to be operational before the completion date of 2017-18 for the entire project.
