[Pics] Progress of Kolkata Metro’s EW Line in Salt Lake
Via TMRG reader Adri Roy Chowdhury, here are some brand new images of Kolkata Metro’s East-West line in Salt Lake (Bidhannagar)! More specifically, these images show the progress of 3 stations – Central Park, Karunamoyee & Sector V which lie on the eastern end of the 16.34 km Howrah Maidan – Salt Lake Sector V line which are expected to be operational by June 2018 as part of the line’s first phase from Salt Lake Sector V to Sealdah.
Barring the 350m Duttabad stretch where piers have just started appearing, basic civil work on this stretch’s elevated section by Gammon India (viaduct) & Simplex Infrastructure (stations) is complete with roof work in progress at different stages. With the customary crack of a coconut, station interior finishing works were launched earlier this month at the City Centre station.
Map of Kolkata’s East-West metro line
Karunamoyee Station – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Central Park Station – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Depot line (left) & mainline (right) – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Start of the Depot line – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Sector V station – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
Line turning north towards Sector V station – Photo Copyright: Adri Roy Chowdhury
This line will feature platform screen doors and be serviced by 14 new train-sets from BEML that are expected to arrive one by one at the Central Park Depot from the middle of 2017 following which trial runs will begin.
For more updates, check out the Kolkata section of The Metro Rail Guy!
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Of which company the trains will run in this line will it be a modern metro
BEML is going to supply the trains,for this line 🙂
The structural work for six elevated stations were completed in April 2012 by Simplex. Now the roofing
work has started on all five stations except Sector – V which will have RCC roof. Six piers of Duttabad
are now complete except the pier cap and the length of the incomplete Duttabad section is 365 meters.
Roofing,work for SectorV station got started . I myself saw that metallic Rooftop structures were being fitted on the platforms .
I wish the whole project starts by Dec.2017.