Casting Work Begins for 1st Pier of Mumbai Metro’s Line-2

January 10 Update: Post has been updated with correct images With the rebar…

09 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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Piling Starts for all 7 TBM Launch Shafts of Mumbai Metro’s Line-3

Construction on Mumbai Metro’s 33.5 km underground Line-3 project has…

09 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 17 Comments
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Delhi Govt’s Cabinet Approves Delhi Metro’s Phase 4 Project

On Friday evening, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi announced via a tweet…

09 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 32 Comments
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Segment Launching Begins to Plug Delhi Metro’s Shahdara Gap

Shared this update on Twitter earlier today, but reposting for those not on…

06 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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[Pics] Bangalore Metro’s Chickpet Station – January 2017

Shared this update on Twitter earlier today, but reposting for those not on…

06 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 29 Comments
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1st Batch of U-Girders Cast for Mumbai Metro’s Line-7

Yesterday, J Kumar Infraprojects completed casting their first set of U-girders…

06 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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Delhi Metro Phase 3 – January 2017 Tunneling Update

Here’s this month’s installment of the Delhi Metro Phase 3 Tunneling…

06 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Nagpur Metro to Borrow 2 Hyderabad Metro Trains for Trial Runs

With Nagpur’s CRRC trains another 1-2 years away from arriving, the Nagpur…

05 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro, Nagpur Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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TBM S52 Lowered into Lucknow Metro’s Bapu Bhawan Shaft

With construction work completed for the 22m deep Bapu Bhawan Shaft adjacent to the Sachivalaya (State Secretariat) Station’s site, workers from the…

05 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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MMRDA Invites Bids for Mumbai Metro’s Line-2B and Line-4

This is big. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) in one go has invited bids from civil infrastructure companies for the construction…

05 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 18 Comments
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New Feature: Subscribe to Notifications for New Posts

In response to my recent 2016 recap post where I asked for site improvement suggestions, I received a lot of great feedback via email on how to improve…

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 ⋅ 87 Comments
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Simplex Emerges Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad’s Shreyas-Ranip Stretch

The missing middle piece of Ahmedabad Metro’s 18.522 km north-south line connecting Motera with Gyaspur has finally been filled. On this past Friday,…

02 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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1st CRRC Train Arrives at Navi Mumbai Metro’s Taloja Depot

Update-1: Looking at the comments received in this post below, it appears that an OHE Wagon/Catenary Maintenance Vehicle (similar to this) has arrived…

02 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Navi Mumbai Metro ⋅ 13 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 to an end, it’s a good time to recap the busy year that just passed…

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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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 – 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 – 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
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km

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