Agra Metro’s PAC Depot Takes Shape & Tracks Arrive
With station & viaduct works on Agra Metro Line-1’s 8 km Priority Corridor grabbing all eyeballs, here’s a post on the project’s crucial train maintenance depot that is quietly shaping up.
This train maintenance depot of the 29.40 km Agra Metro Phase 1 project is under construction on a 16 hectare land parcel near the underground Taj Mahal Station (formerly known as Purani Mandi) to house the system’s Alstom 3-coach rolling stock.
Construction for it is being carried out by Lisha Engineers through a Rs. 112.63 crore contract awarded by Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) in October 2020 for Package AGCC-03 with a tight completion period of 18 months.
Per UPMRC’s press release from this past week, 60% of the depot’s civil construction has been completed (seems far-fetched to me) and track-laying will begin soon. Excerpt:
The civil construction work of integrated workshop, stabling yard (where trains are stabilised after revenue operation hours) and pit wheel lathe inside the metro depot is already being executed. Along with this, construction work of auto coach wash plant and underground tanks is also on the verge of completion.
Some snaps from UPMRC’s MD’s visit today:
Additional snaps can viewed on UPMRC’s Twitter page.
This past week, Larsen & Toubro delivered the first batch of ballastless tracks. They were awarded Kanpur Metro and Agra Metro projects’ track-work contract KNPAGT-3 in January 2021.
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– TMRG
Are you who manufactured the tracks is it indian or imported, Jindal only makes the grade!
Not sure who L&T subcontracted works to. I believe these are standard 800-grade tracks and not 1080-grade HH ones which only JSPL can manufacture.
Thanks for the info
*I mean aware
create a new page for surat chennai expressway also.
It’s in the works 🙂 Surat – Chennai is actually an economic corridor comprising of 2 corridors, Surat-Solapur and Solapur-Chennai.
How’s the depot progress for:
– Patna Metro
– Bhopal Metro
– Indore Metro
– Surat Metro
…seems like, the authorities will manage to commission only the small (show piece) priority corridor on these projects before 2024 general elections; just like UPMRC managed to open a priority section in Kanpur recently. Depot readiness is must to ensure opening of the priority corridor..
– Patna: Land acquisition is underway. Contract awarded to Quality Buildcon – https://themetrorailguy.com/2020/07/23/quality-buildcon-lowest-bidder-for-patna-metros-new-isbt-depot/
– Bhopal: Technical Bid evaluation is underway. 13 bids received – https://themetrorailguy.com/2021/12/12/13-bidders-for-bhopal-metro-subhash-nagar-depots-work/
– Indore: Technical Bid evaluation is underway. 16 bids received – https://themetrorailguy.com/2021/12/01/16-bidders-for-indore-metro-gandhi-nagar-depots-work/
– Surat: Site clearance underway. Contract awarded to ITD Cem – https://themetrorailguy.com/2021/06/22/itd-wins-surat-metros-dream-city-depot-metro-bhavans-work/
cool, thanks!..
But any info about Hebbagodi ?? Bcoz the land still looked barren there. I couldn’t see any construction piece there..
Yes. Even I could see that. I saw just on Dec 31 2021, I could see barren land. Is the construction deep inside somewhere such that it is not visible from the Highway ??
Yeah, framework for one of the sheds has come up here: https://goo.gl/maps/EuQxfM5K95K1bwrv5
Located ~500m west of the highway
Framework Means ? U said that the Agra PAC Depot has taken shape. Has even Hebbagodi taken shape in same manner
Means How Much Progress has happened there ? That line has been scheduled for Sep/Oct This Year
Greetings to TMRG. It would be great if you will add Kanpur Airport terminal progress in airport section as it will help us to stay updated about its work too.
Sure – have added this to my backlog of pages to create. Let me know if there’s anything else! 🙂