Bandra Kurla Complex to be bullet train's 1st station

The Maharashtra government has agreed to provide land at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) for the first underground station of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train. The train would start underground from BKC, travel 21 km in a tunnel passing through the sea, and emerge over the ground at Thane. It would have 12 stations, eight in Gujarat and remaining in Maharashtra.