[Pics] Lucknow Metro’s Krishna Nagar Station – October Update

Here’s a post with new images shot just last week at Lucknow Metro’s…

15 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Bangalore Metro Plans New Depot at Baiyappanahalli Sat. Bus Station Site

The Hindu recently ran an article on the failure of Bangalore’s satellite…

15 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Operations Begin on Chennai Metro’s Alandur – St. Thomas Mount Stretch

This news came out of nowhere and the CMRL made no prior announcement to inform…

14 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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CRRC to Set Up Metro Coach Plant in Butibori, Maharashtra

After winning a Rs. 851 crore contract to supply 69 coaches for Nagpur Metro’s…

14 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro, Other ⋅ 3 Comments
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[Pics] Progress of Lucknow Metro’s 255m Cantilever Bridge

Here’s a post with some recent images of Lucknow Metro’s upcoming…

14 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Prelim List of Stations on Bangalore’s Silk Board – KR Puram Line Released

Last week, Bangalore’s Development Minister K. J. George held a review…

14 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 12 Comments
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Services End on Kolkata’s Circular Railway to Facilitate Metro’s Construction

10 years after being inaugurated, the Eastern Railways on September 30th ran…

13 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 2 Comments
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[Pics] Chennai Metro’s First Underground Section Nearing Completion

Hat tip to reader Aniruddh for sharing this development. On October 8, the Chennai…

13 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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[Pics] RDSO Conducts Test Runs to Assess Kochi Metro

A day after the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. conducted a trial run clocking speeds of 90 km/hr on September 25, a team from the Indian Railways’ Research,…

13 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Bombardier Delivers First of 162 New Coaches to Delhi Metro

On September 21, Bombardier Transportation held a small ceremony at the InnoTrans 2016 Conference in Berlin, Germany to commemorate the delivery of the…

13 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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CRRC Wins Nagpur Metro’s 69 Coach Rolling Stock Contract

China’s China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) has won a Rs. 851 crore contract to supply 69 coaches for Nagpur Metro’s 38.215…

12 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Nagpur Metro ⋅ 20 Comments
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BMRCL Invites Bids for Bangalore’s Hessaraghatta Cross – BIEC Section

After a gap of 16 months, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has finally initiated the bidding process for the construction of one more section of the…

12 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 14 Comments
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Foundation Stone Unveiled for Kanpur Metro Project

On October 4, Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister and India’s Urban Development Minister unveiled the foundation stone for Kanpur’s Rs. 13,721…

12 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kanpur Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T Awarded Lucknow Metro’s KDSB-Munshipulia Stretch

If you’ve kept a tab on the Lucknow section of the site, then this news shouldn’t come as a surprise 🙂 In the 26th board meeting of Lucknow…

11 Oct 2016 ⋅ by ⋅ in Lucknow Metro ⋅ 4 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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