Bengaluru-Mysuru high speed rail journey passes 'glass full of water test'

1 Nov
2020

Bengaluru-Mysuru high speed rail journey passes 'glass full of water test'

By Staff Writer

Bengaluru-Mysuru high speed rail journey passes 'glass full of water test'

BENGALURU: A high speed journey on the Bengaluru-Mysuru rail route was so smooth after intensive track maintenance work that it passed a test where not a drop of water spilled out from a glass kept on a table in a coach, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said. The Minister, in a tweet on Friday night, shared a video showing a water filled glass kept on a table in a compartment and not a drop spilling out during the recent trip. "The journey was so smooth that not even a single drop of water drop water drop spilled out of the glass while the train was travelling at high speed. The results of intensive track Railway track maintenance carried out between Bengaluru & Mysuru in Karnataka are there for everyone to see," he tweeted.

A Railway officer said the work on the over 130 km stretch was undertaken over the past six months at a cost of Rs 40 crore.

Ballast insertion, tamping of tracks and strengthening of embankments were some of the works carried out, she said.

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