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S1073 – 1st TBM for Mumbai Metro Line-3 Arrives at Mumbai Port

Parts of TBM S1073, a more than 100m long Herrenknecht earth pressure balance…

08 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Robbins Completes Factory Testing 1st TBM for Mumbai Metro

American tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Robbins Company has completed…

05 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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[Pics] Lucknow Metro System’s Line-1 Inaugurated

Say hello to Lucknow Metro – India’s 9th metro system built in a…

05 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Deloitte Awarded Pune Metro Line-3’s Transaction Adviser Contract

Big Four firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, simply known as Deloitte, has…

05 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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LMRCL Releases Lucknow Metro’s Fare Chart & Smart Card Info

With the inauguration of Lucknow Metro’s 1st stretch just hours away,…

05 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 30 Comments
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CRRC-Panasonic Wins Kolkata Metro’s Platform Screen Door Contract

A consortium of Zhuzhou CRRC Times Electric Co. Ltd and Panasonic Manufacturing…

04 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
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ITD Cem Completes Delhi Metro Pink Line’s Hasanpur Stretch

Workers from ITD Cementation have completed building a 128m stretch of the…

01 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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U-Girders to be Used on Bangalore Metro Line-4’s Elevated Section

If the August 2017 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Bangalore Metro’s…

01 Sep 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 25 Comments
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1st Pier Starts Taking Shape for Bangalore Metro’s Whitefield Extn

Workers from the ITD-ITD Cem India JV have started tying up rebar for the first…

31 Aug 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 18 Comments
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RVNL Invites Bids for Kolkata Metro Line-6’s Viaduct in Salt Lake

The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has invited bids for the construction of…

31 Aug 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.68 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 72.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 46.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 37.9 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 29.7 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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