Sydney Metro Receives First Indian Built Alstom Train
Sydney Metro has announced the delivery of the first Alstom Metropolis trainset to its Rouse Hill Depot on the 36 km Northwest Line. The 6-coach train was built at Alstom’s Sri City (Andhra Pradesh) facility in India and is part of a 22 trainset & signalling system order placed under a €280 million contract in September 2014.
The new train is capable of being operated automatically through the Automatic Train Protection and Automatic Train Operation (ATP/ATO) modes with the help of Alstom’s Urbalis 400 communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling solution. As per Alstom’s brochure, the trainsets feature three double doors per car side, two multi-purpose areas per for prams, luggage and bicycles and two wheelchairs spaces per car. The air-conditioned trainsets have 38 surveillance cameras per train, emergency intercoms, 2 PID (passenger information display) systems per vestibule, 6 live electronic route-maps per car and an exterior front display of the train’s destination.
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The production and export of these metro coaches is a boost to the Government of India’s “Make in India” campaign which aims at turning the country into a global manufacturing destination. Last year in February, Bombardier from its Savli (Gujarat) plant began exporting trainsets to fulfill a 75 train x 6 coach order for Queensland’s new South East rail network.
Sydney Metro plans to prepare for tests over the next few months and hopes to begin operations on the 36 km Stage 1 of the line in the first half of 2019. The line (see map) includes 15 km of tunnels and 4 km of elevated railway through eight new stations, between Cudgegong Road and Epping, and five upgraded stations, between Epping and Chatswood, on the existing commuter line.
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Bravo! Alstom India. Making India Proud, Making us all proud.
Good to see a country like Australia believing in the manufacturing capabilities of India. Hope this would encourage other countries to follow suit.
Alstom is French company so the manufacturing technology is imported. But still it is good news that foreign companies are using India as an export hub.
Using India as an export hub itself is good news. Take Singapore for instance and see how it has changed its fortune.
Good boost to Make In India
The Train looks awesome. I was a Mechanical Engineering graduate and but I joined IT Sector and I am working in IT for the last 14 Years and after such a long time in IT, I feel surviving in IT is too tough. So much politics and very hard to grow. If I had been in Mechanical Field, I could have joined Alstom and built the Metro Trains. I am feeling regret.
Haha, I hope it isn’t a disaster like the QLD rail ones were/are with a defect list as long as your arm. Yet to see a single one in service.