Lucknow Metro’s TBM S52 Starts Tunneling towards Hazratganj
Following a small pooja and ceremony, workers from the Tata – Gülermak JV today commissioned TBM S52 – their first Tunnel Boring Machine from the Bapu Bhawan Shaft located adjacent to the Sachivalaya (State Secretariat) Station’s site for the 3.44 km package LKCC-06 of the 22.878 km north-south line.
This Ø6.52m Terratec Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) TBM, nicknamed Gomti after the Gomti River, has started building temporary rings for the down-line tunnel within the shaft and will travel on a 780 meter journey towards the Hazratganj Station. The 1st precast segment, to form 1,812m twin tunnels, was cast at Tata-Gulermak’s yard in November 2016 and parts of this TBM were lowered into the shaft in early January 2017.
Underground section of Lucknow’s North-South line – view Lucknow Metro information & map
Photo Copyright: Mohit Revalia
Photo Copyright: Mohit Revalia
Segment signing – Photo Copyright: Shivom Verma
Photo Copyright: Shyamji Gupta
Photo Copyright: Peeyush Pandey
TBM S53 and S52 with its temporary rings
Safety team’s meeting
LMRCL’s team – Photo Copyright: Rajiv Mullick
With this development, Lucknow is now the 6th city in India, after Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Jaipur, to have an underground metro tunnel.
By mid February, the Tata-Gulermak JV will also commission TBM S53, which has been nicknamed Ganga, towards Hazratganj. Both TBMs were previously deployed by the HCC-Samsung JV on the Delhi Metro’s CC-34 project (Vikaspuri – Palam section of Magenta Line) and nicknamed Jantar and Mantar. In 2014-2015, they successfully completed tunneling the Vikaspuri Shaft – Janakpuri West & Dashrathpuri – Palam sections, and were subsequently put up for sale by HCC.
For more updates, check out the Lucknow section of The Metro Rail Guy!
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Mumbai will be 7th and Ahmedabad 8th. Am I right TMRG?
That’s correct. And Pune or Kanpur will go on to be the 9th.
I dnt think so that Pune or Kanpur will get settled on 9th position.In Pune metro work is in very early stages,and initial project is elevated from pimpri mahanagar palika till shivajinagar, a big hurdle is there at kasarwadi where the metro project is fouling with doubledecker bridges,so it will take a handful 3-4 years fr underground work to start.Kanpur too is in very initial stages.What about Hyderabad or Nagpur?arnt there any underground section?
Hi, Hyd & Nagpur do not have any underground sections and at this time no other new approved metro projects, besides Pune and Kanpur, consist of an underground section.
It’s true that there’s still a couple years to go for underground work to begin, but #9 and #10 will definitely be Pune and Kanpur.
https://themetrorailguy.com/2017/01/14/gujarat-government-finalizes-surat-metros-routes/
This page suggest that Surat will also have underground tunnel?
Oops, Surat is a city of Ahmedabad…
So confused, Ahmedabad and Suart are cities of Gujarat, so Surat may be the 9th city which will also have UG tunnel?
There’s a long way to go before Surat’s project is approved. 9th will be either Pune or Kanpur. Depending on approvals, Surat could be 11th.
Till when is the breakthrough towards Hazratganj Shaft expected?
TPL-Gulermak expects it in 4 months. Let’s see what challenges come up.
why LMRC is not doing frequent trails of metro
After 1st Dec then 28th Dec After that no trails Why ?
They’re waiting for the Mawaiyya bridge to be completed (civil + track + subsystems).