The Bengaluru-Hyderabad bullet train on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad high-speed rail corridor will cut travel time between the two cities to just two hours.
Published: November 24, 2025 6:30 PM IST
Bengaluru-Hyderabad bullet train: An upcoming high-speed bullet train will connect Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the near future, reducing travel time between the two most important south Indian capital cities to just two hours from the current 19-hour train journey.
When will the bullet train be operational?
According to officials, a detailed project report (DPR) for the ambitious Bengaluru-Hyderabad high-speed rail corridor, which has been modeled after the upcoming Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor (MAHSR), will be submitted to the Railway Board by March 2026, and later forwarded to the Central government for approval.
State-owned RITES Limited is currently conducting the final survey and alignment work for the proposed 626-kilometer elevated corridor, and the DPR, once prepared, will be sent to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs for approval, they said.
What will be the top speed of the Bengaluru-Hyderabad bullet train?
As per details, the bullet trains which will ply on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad High-Speed Rail Corridor will run at a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour (kmph) and and operating speed of 320 kmph.
The high-speed bullet train will reduce the travel time between Bengaluru and Hyderabad– both renowned technological hubs in southern India– to just two hours, while the current train journey takes around 19 hours to complete.
The reduced travel time will benefit scores of commuters, including businessmen, students, and working professionals, and also provide a major boost to the regional economy, officials said.
What are the challenges?
Meanwhile, the project could face a major hurdle as land acquisition could emerge as a significant challenge. “Land acquisition will be a major challenge, for which we need the help of state governments. Surveyors are in touch with the Chief Secretaries of the respective states,” a report by the Times of India (TOI) quoted South Central Railway (SCR) Chief PRO A. Sridhar as saying.
“Several meetings have been held in Karnataka. If land acquisition is not possible on a particular alignment, the plan will have to be changed. Therefore, the views of the state governments will be taken into account when finalizing the alignment,” he said.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has recommended accelerating work on the Bengaluru-Hyderabad high-speed rail corridor, and called for expediting surveys for both the Hyderabad-Chennai and Hyderabad-Bengaluru projects.
Meanwhile, India’s first bullet train on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor (MAHSR) will cut the travel time between two of the most important industrial centres in India to just two hours, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said, adding that the inaugural run of the ambitious high-speed rail project will now cover a 100 km distance between Surat and Vapi in Gujarat.
