India bites the Bullet: How B-28 will break new frontiers in high-speed rail
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor has given Indian engineers the experience of laying bullet train systems. The indigenous B-28 trainset rids the ambition of foreign reliance
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UPDATED: May 12, 2026 18:26 IST
Edited By: Ashish Mukherjee
For most of the past decade, India has been trying to build a bullet train corridor. It has entered into foreign agreements, obtained financing, begun construction. But it had not tried to build the train itself. That’s until now.