L&T Begins Piling for Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR’s Package C6

Larsen & Toubro recorded another major construction milestone today by starting…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 15 Comments
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5 Bidders for Patna Metro Depot’s Ballasted Tracks

Five firms have submitted bids for the standard gauge ballasted track-work contract…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Patna Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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TBM S81 Begins Tunneling for Pune Metro at Swargate

Engineers from Gulermak – Tata Projects Ltd. JV on Tuesday commissioned tunnel…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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CRRC Breaks Ground on Indian Metro Coach Plant in Sri City

CRRC Corporation’s subsidiary CRRC India on Wednesday held a bhoomi puja…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Soil Testing Underway for Kanpur Metro’s 2nd Underground Section

Techpro Engineers Pvt. Ltd. has over the past couple weeks been conducting geotechnical…

05 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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4 Bidders for Mumbai–Ahmedabad HSR’s Bridge Package P1B

Four construction firms / consortia have submitted bids to build 4 prestressed…

04 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in High Speed Rail ⋅ 8 Comments
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3 Bidders for Mumbai Monorail’s 10 New Rakes

BHEL, Titagarh and Medha are the three rolling stock manufacturers that have…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro, Other ⋅ 8 Comments
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Afcons Conducts Pile Load Tests for Ahmedabad Metro’s Phase 2

Over the past month, Afcons Infrastructure and Cimec Technologies have been…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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4 Qualify for Surat Metro’s General Engineering Consultant Service

March 3 (8 PM IST) Update: My original post announced Nippon – RITES – TPF as the winner for Surat’s GEC contract. Representatives from…

03 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-7’s 1st Platform Screen Door Installed

Engineers from CRRC Zhuzhou Times Electric today completed installing the first half-height Platform Screen Door (PSD) at Akurli Station of Mumbai Metro’s…

02 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Linxon Wins Bangalore Metro Phase 2’s Power Supply Contract

Linxon announced on Monday they’ve been awarded the complete power supply package including 750V DC third rail electrification for Bangalore Metro…

02 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 19 Comments
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Afcons Begins Work on Kolkata Metro’s Line-6 at City Centre 2

Afcons Infrastructure has started ground work to construct Kolkata Metro Line-6’s Package ANVS – a 3.519 km mostly elevated extension from…

01 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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I’m Now on Patreon!

Readers (fans & industry professionals) often ask me how they can help support the blog on an ongoing basis, so today I’ve decided to give Patreon…

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Meerut Metro Train Design to Match RRTS Train

Per a design document that I got my hands on, Meerut Metro’s 3-coach Alstom train-sets for local services (Partapur – Modipuram) will have…

01 Mar 2021 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS, Meerut Metro ⋅ 5 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 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 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 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km

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