2 Trains from (JRBM)JIRIBAM to (JIGT)JIRIGHAT

Indian Railways is significantly contributing towards transformation of the North-eastern states by executing several new railway line projects. Constructing new railway lines to connect all the state capitals of north-eastern region is going o­n under capital connectivity projects. The Jiribam – Imphal new line railway project is o­ne of the crucial connectivity projects for the North-eastern region that is at an advance stage of completion. The works for this new line railway project, among other connectivity projects, is also going o­n in full swing to connect Imphal, the capital city of Manipur to the rest of the country.The Jiribam – Imphal project has already achieved physical progress of 93.30%.

Construction of the Jiribam – Imphal railway project involves multiple tunnels and bridges in tough terrains and which is stretched at more than 111 km length. The total length of tunnels in this project is 61.32 km out of which 59.11 km tunneling works hasalready been completed. The project will have total 11 major bridges and 137 minor bridges, out of which work for 05 major bridges and 101 minor bridges have been completed so far. The tallest pier railway bridge of the world with a height of 141 meters is also being constructed in this project and nearing completion.

The section from Jiribam to Khongsang has already been commissioned for train service. After completion of the entire project, the present road journey time of about 10 hours to reach Imphal from Jiribam will get reduced to 2.5 hours by railways. N. F. Railway is putting their full effort by working 24X7 for the completion of this project with all the challenges like heavy rainfall and other logistic hindrances.

The new rail project will provide enhanced connectivity to the people of the Manipur, help grow small scale industries in the area and boost tourism of the state. It will also help in receiving of essential commodities faster by the state and help the state local producers to export their produces outside the state faster. Economy of the state will receive a boost.

Indian Railways is significantly contributing towards transformation of the North-eastern states by executing several new railway line projects. The Jiribam – Imphal new line railway project is o­ne of the crucial connectivity projects for the North-eastern region that is at an advance stage of completion. The works for this new line railway project, among other connectivity projects, is also going o­n in full swing to connect Imphal, the capital city of Manipur to the rest of the country.

Construction of the Jiribam – Imphal new line railway project is of about 110 km length. It involves multiple tunnels and bridges in tough terrains. Out of 52 tunnels, tunnel no. 12 is the longest tunnel of this project. It is having total length 10.275 km including 529 metre RCC Ramp with a parallel safety tunnel of length 8.30 km. Tunnel no. 12 is passing through the most complex geological condition having fragile soil type condition. Tunnelling work in this stretch is o­ne of the most challenging jobs and N. F. Railway is putting their full effort by working 24X7 for the completion of work with all the challenges like heavy rainfall and other logistic hindrances. The vertical shaft construction technology has been adopted for the first time in N. F. Railway history, for these complex tunnelling works. Normally this technology is used o­nly in the Metro Projects. Considering the complex geological condition of Imphal valley and to reduce the construction time of balance tunnelling stretch, vertical shafts are being constructed. This will help in expediting the progress of the tunnel work. All the tunnelling activities will be done through vertical shaft with the help of Gantry Crane and other modern machineries.

N.F. Railway has been consistently achieving success in the execution of infrastructure marvels in the most challenging area of North-eastern States. The Railway has taken up tunnelling work in a big way with successful completion of High altitude and Mountainous tunnels in Jiribam - Imphal Project.