MMRDA to Procure 216 Coaches for Mumbai Metro’s Line-4

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is the lead external financier of Mumbai Metro’s elevated 32.32 km Line-4, has revealed on their website that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority will be procuring 216 new metro coaches to run on this new line which’ll connect Wadala – Ghatkopar – Mulund – Thane – Kasarvadavali in the eastern side of the city through 32 stations.

The bank’s board of directors in April 2017 approved a concept decision to provide a 500 million Euro (approx Rs. 3750 crores) loan for their procurement which’ll cover roughly 25% of the line’s overall civil construction and system procurement cost of Rs. 14,549 crore. The project’s info-sheet, linked below, indicates a final decision by the bank’s board is expected to be made in March 2018.

Rolling Stock: A total of 216 modern coaches with air conditioning and service-proven equipment with high reliability will be procured. The important criteria for selection of rolling stock includes passenger safety features, energy efficiency, optimized scheduled speed, low life cycle cost, etc.
– link to project info-sheet

No further details have been released, but like Line-2 & Line-7’s new rolling stock, trains on Line-4 are also expected to also run in a 6-coach configuration (i.e. 36 train-sets of 6 coaches) and be capable of running without an operator or “driverless” on the unattended train operation (UTO) mode.

A CRRC train on Mumbai Metro’s Line-1 – Photo Copyright: Raj Upadhyay

Line-4’s alignment (Purple) – view Mumbai Metro map & information

Recap of Mumbai Metro’s fleet:

• Line-1 – 64 coaches: 16 trains x 4 coaches (all delivered by CRRC; none on order)
• Line-2 & Line-7 – 378 coaches: 63 trains x 6 coaches (bids to be invited soon)
• Line-3 –  248 coaches: 31 trains x 8 coaches (RFQ for 210 coaches was invited in December 2015 after which the order was increased to 248; financial bids expected to be opened within the next 30 days)
• Line-4 – 216 coaches: 36 trains x 6 coaches (bids yet to be invited)

For more updates, check out the Mumbai section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG