India’s Railway Minister shares video of 410-metre Hyperloop test track

Marking significant progress in the country’s highspeed transportation ambitions, India’s Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday shared a video on X which showed the completion of a 410-meter Hyperloop test track.

The test track is located at the IIT Madras’ Discovery Campus in Thaiyur, Tamil Nadu.

It is a result of the collaboration between Indian Railways, IIT-Madras’ Avishkar Hyperloop team and a startup named TuTr Hyperloop.

Sharing the video, the Union Minister wrote on X: “Bharat’s first Hyperloop test track (410 meters) completed.”

“Team Railways, IIT-Madras’ Avishkar Hyperloop team and TuTr (incubated startup),” he said.

According to a press release issued by IIT Madras, the project’s central objective is the advancement and commercialisation of Hyperloop technologies for high-speed, affordable, reliable, and sustainable transportation.