{"id":56250,"date":"2019-10-11T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=56250"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:11:00","slug":"work-on-pakistan-railways-ml-1-project-to-start-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-on-pakistan-railways-ml-1-project-to-start-in-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Work on Pakistan Railways ML-1 project to start in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: Development work to lay Pakistan Railways Main Line (ML)-1 will start next year, a news source reported. The project, which is part of the mega projects being launched under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, will reduce travelling between Karachi and Lahore to a mere 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ml-1-peshawar-survey-completed-project-to-kick-off-in-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ML-1: Peshawar survey completed, project to kick off in 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ML-1 is expected to revamp the operations of the Pakistan Railways by allowing trains to travel at a speed of 160 kilometres per hour. Sources from the Pakistan Railways have revealed that the ML-1 track will contain no railway crossings and overhead bridges, as these will be moved underground.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/installation-ml-1-tracks-commence-this-year-rasheed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Installation of ML-1 tracks to commence this year: Rasheed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of the existing 2,800 railway crossings in the country, there are 1,500 that aren\u2019t being monitored by the Railway\u2019s staff. Furthermore, the dilapidated train tracks, many of which were built over a century ago, continue to cause accidents. This is in addition to the fact that the train bogies and engines currently in use also in very poor conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the project had initially been conceived about 14 years ago. However, it was only earlier this week that Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed announced that Pakistan and China had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-minister-announces-ml-1-project-finalisation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finalized the USD 8.2 billion ML-1 project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: Development work to lay Pakistan Railways Main Line (ML)-1 will start next year, a news source reported. The project, which is part of the mega projects being launched under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, will reduce travelling between Karachi and Lahore to a mere 10 hours. Read:\u00a0ML-1: Peshawar survey completed, project to kick off in 2020 ML-1 is expected to revamp the operations of the Pakistan Railways by allowing trains to travel at a speed of 160 kilometres per hour. Sources from the Pakistan Railways have revealed that the ML-1 track will contain no railway crossings and overhead bridges, as these will be moved underground. Read:\u00a0Installation of ML-1 tracks to commence this year: Rasheed Out of the existing 2,800 railway crossings in the country, there are 1,500 that aren\u2019t being monitored by the Railway\u2019s staff. Furthermore, the dilapidated train tracks, many of which were built over a century ago, continue to cause accidents. This is in addition to the fact that the train bogies and engines currently in use also in very poor conditions. Interestingly, the project had initially been conceived about 14 years ago. However, it was only earlier this week that Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed announced that Pakistan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13409],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-work-on-pakistan-railways-ml-1-project-to-start-in-2020"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work on Pakistan Railways ML-1 project to start in 2020 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: Development work to lay Pakistan Railways Main Line (ML)-1 will start next year, a news source reported. 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