Archive for category: Chennai Metro

L&T Assembles Chennai Metro TBMs DZ1040 & DZ1041 at Chetpet

Larsen & Toubro in the past fortnight has lowered and assembled tunnel boring…

12 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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7 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line 5’s E&M Contract for 22 Stations

7 firms have bid for Chennai Metro Line-5’s electrical & mechanical…

08 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Tata’s Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM S98 Records 1st Breakthrough

Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) on Wednesday celebrated the first ever breakthrough…

08 Jun 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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ITD’s Chennai Metro TBM S1352A Passes Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht on Tuesday completed factory…

18 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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5 Bidders for Chennai Metro Line-5’s UG06 Tunneling Work

5 civil construction firms (2 in a consortium) have submitted bids for underground…

16 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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DRA, Tata & RVNL Win Chennai Metro’s 29 Underground Stations Work

June 15, 2023 Update: CMRL has awarded contracts and issued LOAs for all 5 packages….

01 May 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 24 Comments
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L&T Launches Chennai Metro Adyar River Bridge’s 1st Pier Cap

Larsen & Toubro on Saturday evening erected their first 9.5m wide pier cap…

26 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T Wins Chennai Metro Line 3 & 5’s OHE & RSS Electrification Work

May 24, 2023 Update: CMRL has issued LOAs and signed contracts with L&T…

11 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T Awarded Chennai Metro Line-4’s Telecom Contract ASA-05

Another contract down! Larsen & Toubro last week was awarded the telecommunication…

04 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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CRRC Awarded Chennai Line-4’s Platform Screen Door Contract

Per Chennai Metro Rail Ltd (CMRL)’s press release, Zhuzhou CRRC Times…

03 Apr 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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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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