NCC Begins Bangalore Metro Airport Line’s Test Piling Work
NCC Ltd. over the past fortnight has started test piling activity across all 3 packages of Bangalore Metro’s 37 km Airport Line (Blue Line) which will link Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to KR Puram.
These 3 elevated sections of Bangalore Metro Phase 2B project range from 11 to 15 kms and consist of 15 out of the 17 stations planned on the line. NCC was awarded 3 LOA contracts in November 2021 with completion deadlines ranging from 24 – 27 months.
This post focuses on the 11.678 km Package-2 which will connect Hebbal – Bagalur Cross (chainage 10072m to 21500m) with a 250m pocket track and 5 elevated stations at Hebbal, Kodigehalli, Jakkur Cross, Yelahanka and Bagalur Cross.
NCC’s team here has completed concreting 4 out of 10 test piles each with a 1m diameter. These 4 range between 24-30m deep, and are located near BSF’s Campus in Yelahanka (Pier AP709 to AP710) and Bagalur Cross Underpass (Pier AP668 to AP 669). This includes 2 vertical load test piles and 2 lateral load test piles.
Actual piling for the line’s construction is planned to start within a week! When that happens, I’ll update all key figures across the Bangalore Metro Phase 2B and Quick Snapshot pages to reflect the change.
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Well, is NCC Ltd will built viaduct all the way till Airport or it will built only upto Airport Ramp at Doddajala?
All the way to dead-end chainage 36511.000m. The 2 airport stations’ civil work is part of a separate tender/contract.
Great to see this finally happening 👍
Nice to see some progress on this line FINALLY.
I am curious about the interchange stations on this line,
1: KR Pura – It’s quite clear that the blue and purple line stations will be side by side.
– Hope they will be connected at platform levels
2: Nagavara – Pink line underground station piling is in progress, do you have the actual location of the blue line station? There is no space between flyovers and also they are curved a bit. The buildings on either side of the flyovers are still standing strong (should have come down by now if they were planned to be)
Location of most stations including Nagavara remain unknown. When I find out, I’ll adjust the google-based map on the Phase 2B page.
See the video uploaded by MetroRailBlog in Youtube. There he mentioned that the KR Puram Interchange will be Parallel, ie, Side by Side.
Yeah, have that one mapped out correctly (KRP is part of Phase 2A) here
https://themetrorailguy.com/bangalore-metro-phase-2b-information-map-updates/
At KRPura there may be two levels of platforms one for each line to cross over.
Purple line station is in final stages (roofing) and it’s only 1 platform level design, all the in and out viaduct clearly indicates that on construction site.
SNC has already barriacaded the area next to existing purple line station, indicating the new station location.
We have to wait to see if the 2 station buildings are connected at platform level or through a walkway.
Sir je wale 20 Expressway ko bhi ad karo or enka bhi status do
1) Varanasi Kolkata Expressway.
2) Gorakhpur Siliguri Expressway
3)Ambala Shamli Expressway
4)Ballia Link Expressway.
5)Aurangabad-Darbhanga Expressways .
6)Buxar – Bhagalpur Expressway.
7)Chennai Surat Expressway.
8)Raxaul-Haldia Expressway.
9)Pune-Bengaluru Expressway.
10)Kharagpur–Siliguri Expressway
11)Kharagpur–Kolkata Expressway
12)Indore-Mumbai Expressway.
13)Mangaluru–Chitradurga Expressway
14) Indore–Kota Expressway
15) Hyderabad–Indore Expressway
16) Hyderabad–Visakhapatnam Expressway
17) Nagpur–Vijayawada Expressway
18) Hyderabad–Raipur Expressway
19) Nagpur–Hyderabad–Bengaluru Expressway
20) GMADA Expressway
Thanks – will add to my list of pages to create.
1) https://themetrorailguy.com/nhai-varanasi-kolkata-expressway-route-map-status-update/
3) Part of Bareilly-Ludhiana EC: https://themetrorailguy.com/nhai-bareilly-ludhiana-economic-corridor-route-map-status-update/
5) Amas-Darbhanga: https://themetrorailguy.com/nhai-amas-darbhanga-expressway-route-map-status-update/
6) Buxar-Bhagalpur: https://themetrorailguy.com/rcd-buxar-bhagalpur-expressway-route-map-status-update/
Please add siliguri highway details.
There were recent news reports that CRRC has not yet found an Indian partner to build trainsets and the making of the trainsets is delayed quite delayed.
What are the facts? Looks like serious impact on phase-2 even if all the construction gets over by 2024. Your thoughts?
CRRC’s intentions have also been dodgy. They were supposed to build a majority of Nagpur’s trainsets locally in Butibori, but reneged the agreement and delivered from China.
Feel they’re trying to trying to pull a similar bait and switch strategy here. Phase 2’s opening, especially Yellow Line’s will be affected. Pink Line’s tendering is yet to start. BMRCL will have to adjust frequency on Purple/Green lines, and is already negotiating for 7 additional trainsets with BEML.
Hope BMRCL doesn’t drag this out any further and terminates the contract. If bridges have to be burned and then so be it.
Agreed. Back to ol’ reliable BEML is the best option!
Where can we find exact metro stations location(drawing) for Hebbal to Bangalore International airport line?
In TMRG’s Namma Metro overview page
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Any idea on the completion of Whitefield Route ?
Location of Bagalur station send wrong. Location seems to be before PRR line crossing airport road, opposite North Gate tech park
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