KOLKATA: From early May, the brand new rakes of the East-West Metro will start their trial runs along the elevated viaduct from Sector V to Salt Lake stadium. The educate, worth Rs 64.five crore, is anticipated to achieve Kolkata around April 15 and the stretch will probably be inaugurated in October.
According to KMRC officials, the rake will to start with be parked on the depot. It will run at the seven-kilometre monitor within the car repairs depot
until its full-fledged trial run along the real viaduct. The six-coach educate was once manufactured by central PSU BEML, which will probably be supplying 84 such coaches (14 trains) to KMRC in the next few months. The general contract price is Rs 900 crore.
The commissioning of the monitor from Sector V to Phoolbagan is complete and Chinese company CRRC will provide and install the platform screen-doors. All the coaches being introduced from Bengaluru are air-conditioned, with online surveillance cameras that can monitor and document on board pictures remotely through a broadband radio machine in real time, explained a KMRC professional.
The design headway is 2.five minutes, this means that there will probably be a educate every 2.five minutes and the rakes can run with out drivers. The communicationbased educate keep an eye on machine (CBTC) will allow automatic educate operation with minimal or no intervention from the educate operator. However, KMRCL can have drivers in the cabin just to assure passengers.
The whole educate motion can also be monitored in real time and regulated from the operation keep an eye on centre (OCC) at Central Park depot and the back-up keep an eye on centre at Howrah station. The Tretra Train Radio can keep an eye on the services and products from the keep an eye on centre at any time. On-time arrival and departure of trains will probably be ensured with the help of the automatic educate supervision (ATS) feature.
Even the depot — spread over 39acres — will probably be unique compared to the present Metro depot at Tollygunge, the oldest in the nation. The depot has an management construction, a central retailer, workshops, a stabling shed, an electrical tractor unit shed and a group booking construction. There are 16 constructions on a mixed floor space of one, 66,000sq., with features like polycarbonate sheets to utilise daylight, recycling of water, energy-efficient lighting and surroundings keep an eye on machine are one of the vital features for achieving the score.
According to KMRC officials, the rake will to start with be parked on the depot. It will run at the seven-kilometre monitor within the car repairs depot
until its full-fledged trial run along the real viaduct. The six-coach educate was once manufactured by central PSU BEML, which will probably be supplying 84 such coaches (14 trains) to KMRC in the next few months. The general contract price is Rs 900 crore.
The commissioning of the monitor from Sector V to Phoolbagan is complete and Chinese company CRRC will provide and install the platform screen-doors. All the coaches being introduced from Bengaluru are air-conditioned, with online surveillance cameras that can monitor and document on board pictures remotely through a broadband radio machine in real time, explained a KMRC professional.
The design headway is 2.five minutes, this means that there will probably be a educate every 2.five minutes and the rakes can run with out drivers. The communicationbased educate keep an eye on machine (CBTC) will allow automatic educate operation with minimal or no intervention from the educate operator. However, KMRCL can have drivers in the cabin just to assure passengers.
The whole educate motion can also be monitored in real time and regulated from the operation keep an eye on centre (OCC) at Central Park depot and the back-up keep an eye on centre at Howrah station. The Tretra Train Radio can keep an eye on the services and products from the keep an eye on centre at any time. On-time arrival and departure of trains will probably be ensured with the help of the automatic educate supervision (ATS) feature.
Even the depot — spread over 39acres — will probably be unique compared to the present Metro depot at Tollygunge, the oldest in the nation. The depot has an management construction, a central retailer, workshops, a stabling shed, an electrical tractor unit shed and a group booking construction. There are 16 constructions on a mixed floor space of one, 66,000sq., with features like polycarbonate sheets to utilise daylight, recycling of water, energy-efficient lighting and surroundings keep an eye on machine are one of the vital features for achieving the score.
Trial runs for new East-West Metro rakes to start in May
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