Bombardier Delivers Final Trainset to Delhi Metro for 162 Coach Order

Last Wednesday, Bombardier Transportation in a low-key event celebrated the…

23 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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Alstom & L&T Awarded Mumbai Metro Line-3’s Electrification Contracts

After receiving JICA’s approval, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation today…

21 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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TBM T-59 Commissioned for Mumbai Metro’s Line-3 towards Kalbadevi

Following a small puja, engineers and workers from the Hindustan Construction…

21 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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MahaMetro Invites Bids for Pune Metro’s Civil Court – Ramwadi Section

This weekend, the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MahaMetro) launched…

21 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Mumbai Metro Line-3 – February 2018 Tunneling Update

With construction work picking up pace on Mumbai Metro’s new 33.5 km Line-3…

21 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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GDA Approves Delhi Metro Blue Line’s Extn to Sahibabad & Mohan Ngr

2020 Update: Both lines’ Detailed Project Reports were submitted to the…

21 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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CMRS to Inspect Delhi Metro’s Pink Line between February 26 – 28

The final round of safety inspections on the 20.6 km Majlis Park – Durgabai…

20 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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NCRTC Invites Bids for Delhi – Meerut RRTS Line’s Construction

The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) this past week initiated…

19 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 12 Comments
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RCC-MBZ & Neeraj-Guan Lowest Bidders for Mumbai Metro’s Line-2B

Update – MMRDA awarded 2 contracts to both consortia on March 3, 2018. Original Post: So back on February 12 when the bids for the 32.32 km Line-4…

18 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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Ahmedabad Metro’s 1st TBM Lowered into Apparel Park TBM Shaft

With soil excavation completed for the Apparel Park Shaft earlier this month, workers from Afcons Infrastructure today morning started lowering parts…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Afcons Finishes Excavation for Ahmedabad Metro’s TBM Launch Shaft

Earlier this month, Afcons Infrastructure completed soil excavation work for a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) launch shaft in Ahmedabad’s Apparel Park…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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KA Govt Approves Preparation of DPR for Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3

While presenting Karnataka’s 2018-19 budget yesterday, the state’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mentioned that the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 59 Comments
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MahaMetro Invites Bids for Pune Metro’s TBM Shafts & Swargate Stn

So back on January 10, the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation kick-started the process to appoint contractors for building the 5.019 km underground section…

17 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Pune Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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J Kumar Launches 1st Platform Pier Cap for Mumbai Metro’s Line-2

On the night of January 19, workers from the J Kumar Infraprojects – CRTG JV launched their first pier cap for supporting the platform of IC Colony…

15 Feb 2018 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 9 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
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km

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