Archive for category: Chennai Metro

Chennai Metro’s TBM S711 Starts Tunneling to Theagaraya College

Workers from Afcons Infrastructure today commissioned their S711 Herrenknecht Tunnel…

25 Apr 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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CMRS Approves Chennai Metro’s Koyambedu – Nehru Park Section

The Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) last week gave its final approval…

25 Apr 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Chennai Metro’s Robbins TBM Starts Tunneling to Theagaraya College

On Monday evening, workers from Afcons Infrastructure commissioned their Robbins…

30 Mar 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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[Pics] Chennai Metro’s Nehru Park Station – March 2017

Here’s a picture-post with some new images of Chennai Metro’s upcoming Nehru…

17 Mar 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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TBM S710 Makes a Breakthrough at Chennai Metro’s Central Station

A little more than four years after being commissioned from Washermenpet in…

27 Feb 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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TBM S711 Lowered into Chennai Metro’s Washermenpet Shaft

After making a breakthrough at Central Station for Chennai Metro’s UAA-01…

15 Feb 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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In response to my recent 2016 recap post where I asked for site improvement…

04 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Ahmedabad Metro, Bangalore Metro, Chennai Metro, Delhi Metro, Delhi NCR RRTS, Gurgaon Metro, Guwahati Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Jaipur Metro, Kanpur Metro, Kochi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Kozhikode Metro, Lucknow Metro, Meerut Metro, Mumbai Metro, Nagpur Metro, Navi Mumbai Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro, Other, Patna Metro, Pune Metro, Thiruvananthapuram Metro, Varanasi Metro, Vijayawada Metro, Visakhapatnam Metro ⋅ 71 Comments
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2016 Recap – Progress of India’s Metro Systems

First off, here’s wishing everyone a Happy New Year! 🙂 As 2016 comes…

31 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Agra Metro, Ahmedabad Metro, Bangalore Metro, Chennai Metro, Delhi Metro, Gurgaon Metro, Guwahati Metro, Hyderabad Metro, Jaipur Metro, Kanpur Metro, Kochi Metro, Kolkata Metro, Kozhikode Metro, Lucknow Metro, Meerut Metro, Mumbai Metro, Nagpur Metro, Navi Mumbai Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro, Other, Patna Metro, Pune Metro, Thiruvananthapuram Metro, Varanasi Metro, Vijayawada Metro, Visakhapatnam Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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IL&FS Emerges as Lowest Bidder for Chennai Metro’s 2 UG Stations

IL&FS Transportation Networks has announced that their IL&FS –…

07 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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TBM S718 Makes a Breakthrough at Chennai Metro’s Central Station

Apologies for the late post – it’s been a little hard to get these…

05 Dec 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 13 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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