Pratibha-Ranjit Lowest Bidder for Ahmedabad’s 5 Station Contract

The contractor for the last civil package of Ahmedabad Metro’s 39.259…

02 Feb 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Siemens Consortium Wins Nagpur Metro’s Signalling Contract

The recently constituted Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MahaMetro) has…

02 Feb 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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DMRC Revises Magenta Line’s Deadline to December 2017

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has revised their publicly facing deadline…

02 Feb 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 18 Comments
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DMRC’s MD Indicates Heritage Line to Now Open Only After Holi

If you’ve been following along, then this shouldn’t come as a surprise….

26 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 24 Comments
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KMRL Extends Kochi Metro’s Trial Runs to Aluva Station

The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. yesterday extended trial runs/testing to Aluva Station…

25 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 8 Comments
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Lucknow Metro’s TBM S52 Starts Tunneling towards Hazratganj

Following a small pooja and ceremony, workers from the Tata – Gülermak JV today…

23 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 13 Comments
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2nd Refurbished Train & Noapara’s 3rd Platform Inaugurated in Kolkata

On this past Friday, India’s Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu remotely flagged…

23 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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Nagpur Metro Invites Bids for 8 Stations on East-West Line

Two months after inviting bids from infrastructure companies for the construction…

23 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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TBM S197 Makes Final Breakthrough on Delhi’s Dwarka–Najafgarh Line

Yesterday afternoon, Tunnel Boring Machine S197 made a final breakthrough at Najafgarh to complete all tunneling works on the Delhi Metro’s 4.3…

21 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Simplex Casts 1st Pier for CA-01 Section of Mumbai Metro’s Line-7

Earlier this week, workers from Simplex Infrastructures removed formwork (casting molds) to finish casting their first pillar in Goregaon East for Mumbai…

20 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Mumbai Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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DMRC Issues Notice to Energize Pink Line in March for Trial Runs

Hat tip to reader Aby K The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) yesterday issued a public notice (see below) in major newspapers indicating they’ll…

19 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 29 Comments
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TBM S53 Lowered into Lucknow Metro’s Bapu Bhawan Shaft

After TBM S52, workers from the Tata – Gülermak JV earlier this week also started lowering parts of TBM S53 into the 22m deep Bapu Bhawan Shaft adjacent…

18 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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1st Segment Launched for Hyderabad Metro’s Allugaddabavi RoB

While a crew from Larsen and Toubro and Spacechem Engineers assemble a 83m steel bridge at Chiklaguda, another crew of L&T’s workers, barely…

18 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Hyderabad Metro ⋅ 10 Comments
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[Pics] Delhi Metro’s Jama Masjid & Kashmere Gate Stations – Jan 2017

Here’s a post showcasing the status of 2 stations on the Delhi Metro’s upcoming 5.17 km ITO – Kashmere Gate extension of the Violet Line….

17 Jan 2017 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 15 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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