Northern Railway opens Pandupindara-Sonepat section of newly constructed line

The Northern Railway zone which is the largest zone in terms of route kilometers over the Indian Railways further consolidated its position by adding more trackage in the form of the newly constructed line between Jind and Sonepat, two fast expanding towns in the state of Haryana.

The Pandupindara – Sonepat section of Jind – Sonepat new railway line covering a length of 81.05 Km was opened for freight traffic on Tuesday. The construction work of this line was sanctioned in the fiscal year 2007-08.  The cost of the line which will be a boon to the people living in this agriculture and industry rich region has been jointly borne by the Railways and the state of Haryana on a 50-50 sharing basis. The present cost of this project is pegged to be around 800 crore.

There are five stations on this line, namely Pandupindara Junction, Bhambhewa, Gohana Junction, Mohana and Sonepat along with seven halt stations, Lalit Khera, Ishpur Kheri, Butana, Khandrai, Rabrah, Lath and Barwasni. There are 261 bridges including subways in the entire section out of which 17 are major bridges. To provide road crossings, 56 Subways and road underbridges have been provided at points under the track along with 28 level crossings out of which 8 are manned level crossings.

A trial run of loaded goods train was successfully done on this section on Tuesday. The train entered from Pandupindara and travelled through the section to end its maiden run at the last station ie Sonepat. 

The line is likely to be opened to normal passengers in January 2016 after intensive inspections, trial runs and obtaining the sanction of Commissioner for Railway Safety (CRS). All the stations en-route has also been commissioned.