After the Banihal-Baramulla railway, the Indian Railways should now plan to build a line in the plains of Ladakh along the Indus river. Its alignment could be from Batalik-Khalatse-Leh-Karu to Chushul. The stretch, of approximately 500 kilometres, is plain, interspersed with populated and fertile regions and is along an arterial road in Ladakh, from Batalik to Chushul. We propose this idea inspired by the popular, standalone 119 km Baramullah-Qazigund railway line in the Kashmir Valley, in operation since October 2009. With the recent inauguration of the 11 km Qazigund-Banihal tunnel by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Kashmir Railway will now extend from Baramulla to Banihal. The railway...
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