Meerut Metro’s 1st Alstom Train Arrives at Duhai Depot
National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) on Tuesday night received their first train-set for Meerut Metro’s 23 km Line-1 (Partapur – Modipuram) which is under construction as part of the 82.5 km Delhi – Ghaziabad – Meerut RRTS project.
The 3-coach train from Alstom’s Adessia commuter family of trains was unveiled earlier this month at an event organized at Alstom’s plant in Savli, Gujarat. The aerodynamic train has a stainless steel body with a design speed of 135 kmph. It is planned to be operated at a speed of 120 kmph which will make it the fastest metro train in India.
Some snaps from Duhai Depot’s coach receiving facility shared by NCRTC:
Meerut Metro’s rolling stock, comprising of 10 trains, is being manufactured by Alstom as part of a Rs. 2577 crore contract awarded to Bombardier by National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) in mid-2021.
Alstom will supply NCRTC with a total of 210 standard gauge aerodynamic lightweight coaches – 180 for long distance RRTS and 30 for local Meerut Metro MRTS services. The first 6-coach RRTS train had rolled out in May 2022, and last heard NCRTC had received 16 train-sets out of 30.
Meerut Metro with 13 station’s primary goal is to act as a feeder to the Delhi – Meerut RRTS line via 3 stations located at Shatabdi Nagar, Begumpul, Modipuram.
Some snaps shot on the 28th morning shared by NCRTC after assembling the coaches:
NCRTC will now conduct static tests, and then dynamic tests at the depot’s test track. More images of the train shot earlier this month and a list of features can be viewed here.
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Airport express metro in delhi also has speed of 120 kmph so it will be similar to that only and not the fastest metro.
Airport Express line has a metro tag but isn’t configured like a traditional metro line. Has more spaced out stations every 3-5 kms as you likely know 🙂 I’d say it’s closer to RRTS than MRTS.
But then will meerut metro be able to achieve 120 kmph speed considering stations are closer to each other as compared to airport express line metro.
I travelled in airport metro once and checked the speed on the app. The metro took around 45-50 seconds for it to reach the 120 mark.
Why we are still importing? When we can build here in india ?
What are waffling about ? Both trainsets : Meerut RRTS and MRTS are made in Savli factory of India.