Archive for category: Chennai Metro

Chennai Metro Phase 2: L&T, KEC & BEL Bid for Telecom Contract

3 firms have submitted bids to commission Chennai Metro line 3 and 5’s telecommunications…

14 Oct 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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Tata’s Chennai Metro TBM S99 Records Breakthrough at Venugopal Nagar

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Thursday celebrated tunnel boring machine S99’s…

15 Sep 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Tata Awarded Chennai Metro Line 5’s UG06 Tunneling Contract

Per a couple of my tunneling industry connections, Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL)…

13 Sep 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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L&T’s Chennai Metro TBM Siruvani Starts Tunneling from Chetpet

Following a small puja, Larsen & Toubro on Wednesday officially commissioned…

07 Sep 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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L&T’s 1st Chennai Metro Robbins TBM 408-1 Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Robbins Company in Kancheepuram last month…

06 Sep 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD’s 1st Chennai Metro Line-4 TBM Flamingo Starts Tunneling

ITD Cementation India and Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL) on Friday officially…

02 Sep 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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ST Only Bidder for Chennai Metro Line 3 & 5’s Platform Screen Door Retender

Singapore’s ST Engineering Electronics Ltd. is once again the only bidder…

24 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Tata’s Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM S96 Records Breakthrough

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Monday celebrated tunnel boring machine S96’s…

08 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD Lowers Chennai Metro Line-4’s 1st Tunnel Boring Machine

ITD Cementation on Tuesday started lowering and assembling their first tunnel…

05 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ITD’s Chennai Metro TBM S1075B Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht on Tuesday completed factory…

03 Aug 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.7 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 75.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 59.2 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 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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