KARACHI (HRNW) Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shalwani held a meeting regarding the revival of the Karachi Circular Railways (KCR) on Sunday at the Pakistan Railway’s divisional superintendent office, Karachi.
According to details, Karachi Railways Divisional Superintendent (DS) Arshad Salam Khattak briefed meeting about the work being carried out for KCR revival. He told meeting that the track between Karachi City to Korangi will be completed in two months.
Six kilometre KCR track has been completed while work on remaining 8-kilometre track is underway, he told in the meeting.
Khattak said that Railways will launch test trail of KCR after completion of 13 kilometres ground track.
The KCR project is 12.63 kilometres at grade (on the ground), and 30.75 kilometres elevated with 24 railway stations out of which 14 will be elevated. The average distance between each station will be 1.8 kilometres.
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