The Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) are a mega rail transport project being undertaken to increase transportation capacity, reduce unit costs of transportation, and improve service quality.
Railways share in freight transportation is about 36 per cent of total goods transported in the country and the Railways aims to increase it substantially.
The dedicated freight-only lines are being built along the four key transportation routes – known as the Golden Quadrilateral and connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Howrah and its two diagonals (Delhi – Chennai and Mumbai – Howrah), covering a total of 10,122 km, these corridors carry the heaviest ....
