PR To Upgrade Railway Track From Karachi To Peshawar Under CPEC
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published January 16, 2019 | 11:06 PM
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Jan, 2019 ) :The Pakistan Railways has planned to upgrade railway track from Karachi to Peshawar via Lahore in the next five years under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project for better rail communication facilities.
The PR sources told APP on Wednesday that under this plan, the track from Lahore to Peshawar will be dualized so that trains could be run without any interruption and for safer journey.
The sources said that average 77.10 percent of track was overage, while 86 percent of Railways bridges were more than 100 years old but all bridges are safe for train operation due to effective maintenance, rehabilitation and strengthening of these bridges.
The bridges are inspected annually as per schedule and minor repair is carried out departmentally in routine to ensure safety, however, these bridges will also be upgraded under the CPEC, the sources said.
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