[Pics] Bangalore Metro’s Majestic Station – March 2017
On March 8, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.’s Managing Director took the city’s Development Minister, K. J. George, on a tour of the Majestic Interchange Station where they interacted with the media, checked out the Green Line’s platforms, witnessed a smoke detection test, took a ride through the tunnels via an inspection trolley and emerged out at the North Ramp near the Sampige Road Station.
During the media interaction, the BMRCL’s MD explained the line’s safety features among other things (view press conference video), but overall remained adamant about opening the pending 12 km section of the Green Line, between Sampige Road – Yelachenahalli, in April 2017. This claim was made even as trial runs are yet to begin and the other underground stations lie significantly incomplete (see recent images of Chickpet Station here) which they ever so conveniently did not take the media for a tour/inspection of.
Update: Trial runs are going to begin on March 13 – see BMRCL’s Press Release
Pending section of the Green Line – view Bangalore Metro map & information
Enjoy these fantastic images from inside Majestic which has shaped quite nicely:
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Photo Copyright: Chetan Kumar
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Photo Copyright: Chetan Kumar
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Photo Copyright: Chetan Kumar
Here’s the North Ramp – Sampige Road section. Note that the 3rd Rail conductor, from which trains draw power, has not yet been completely installed for the north-bound track. When the trial runs begin next week, be assured that it’ll initially only begin on the south-bound track.
Photo Copyright: Naveen Menezes
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In addition, here are some encouraging images of the station’s North Shaft (view location) from where TBM Margarita started its journey towards Sampige Road and made a breakthrough in November 2015. As you can see, the roof slab has been laid and only waterproofing & soil back-filling work is now pending. This shaft is in a lot better shape than the South Shaft (view images) near Tank Bund Road where TBM Kaveri & TBM Krishna made a breakthrough in June and September 2016.
Source: a TMRG follower
Source: a TMRG follower
As mentioned in the previous posts, the BMRCL has been very unpredictable and never quite revealed their game plan to the people, which incidentally happen to be the project’s largest stakeholders. In the coming months, if under pressure they decide to start operations by skipping the intermediate Chickpet & KR/City Market stations, then that’ll overall be excellent for users and north-south connectivity. While doing so, if they or the media choose to declare that Phase 1 is now complete, then that’ll just be comically absurd as there’s still a long way to go for that to happen. Stay tuned to find out what happens!
For more updates, check out the Bangalore section of The Metro Rail Guy!
– TMRG
If I’m not mistaken, Majestic and the rest of the underground line have different contractors? That should explain why there’s a big difference in progress.
Same main contractor, but different JVs:
• Majestic Station – Coastal-GYT JV
• UG1 (Sampige Rd to National College) – Coastal-TTS JV
Slight typo: I think you meant March 13 and not Feb 13 for when the trial runs start.
Yup, corrected!
They’ll probably ask some other entity to conduct safety inspections last minute and blame them for delays in opening the line.
Nice pics btw, thanks for posting. Encouraging signs for other stations.
I feel skipping the intermediate Chickpet & KR/City Market stations for a few months is a good Idea. Once Majestic is connected then it will help lakhs of people every day. We also have shuttle buses from Majestic bus stop to KR Market and people can use it for a couple of months.
now metro line route- mantri mall to rajajinagar is closed for 10 days, for take off of link between majestic to mantri mall
Assuming they skip Chickpet & City-Market stations, when do you expect they could open up services along the rest of the N-S Line by?
Excellent work, tracking the progress.!!!
Testing process needs at least 2 solid months with multiple teams & sources gathering data, analyzing it and making necessary corrections for the integration of the line.
Why do they need to close 3 stations on North Side — Mantri Mall, Srirampura and Kuvempu Rd for testing of Under ground section towards Majestic/Kempegowda xchange ?
North of Sampige Rd station, the closest train reversal track facility is at Rajajinagar.
The Sampige Rd station was closed down for facilitating the testing & integration of sub-systems, so they’re forced to curtail operations till Rajajinagar.
When your are opening the metro line between mantri mall and majestic station?
By October 2017
really..
I mean probably by October. Got this calculation by approximate estimation by a senior journalist
Will the metro line be functional from Mantri Mall to Sandal soap factory from March 23rd 2017, after the trial run is over?
Yes, the metro line is functional.
How about the connection between Majestic and Mantri mall?
Work, including testing & commissioning, must be done on 24/7 basis to meet deadlines.
This applies to all projects.
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