L&T Bags Contract for 116-Km Bullet Train Project Between Mumbai and Ahmedabad
News 18L&T on Thursday said its construction arm has won a large contract for the bullet train project. L&T Construction has bagged the project from National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. “The railways business of L&T Construction has secured a contract from NHSRCL to construct 116 route km of High-Speed ballastless track works for Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project, popularly referred to as the bullet train project,” the company said in a statement. A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of ties/sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt. The scope of work includes design, supply, construction and testing and commissioning track works on a design-build lump sum price basis for the double line high-speed railway between Vadodara and Sabarmati in Gujarat.