In Chennai, successful completion of a trial run from Porur to Poonamalle yesterday by driverless train!!
On the 10km metro line between Porur and Poonamallee, a driverless train successfully completed its trial run. The sensational piece of news is that the driverless train services would begin from the month of December.
It is well known to us that the second phase of CMRL project is being implemented on 3 routes for a distance of 118.9km. For this, a tunnel is being constructed from Lighthouse to Kodambakkam flyover present on the main route between Kodambakkam and Poonamallee. Ity is worthy to note that a flyover or an over bridge is being constructed from Kodambakkam power house to Poonamallee highway. Point is that the work of laying railway tracks at several places between Porur and Poonamallee has reached the final stage of engineering completion work.
The train services between Poonamallee and Porur would start from December month. The trail run has been going on in this route for the last few months. In this scenario, following the track testing and running of metro train from Poonamalle workshop metro station and Porur junction metro station in the phase-2 of CMRL project on route-4, yesterday (6th June 2025) the CMRL has started the test run of metro trains from Porur junction metro station to Poonamallee workshop metro station.
This high level route from Porur junction metro station and Poonamallee bypass metro station is 10km and is linked to Poonamallee workshop metro station. For the present testing and operations, Poonamallee workshop metro station would be the coordinating centre for metro train tests in this section.
This trial run event saw the presence of important personalities like CMRL director Mr. Arjunan, Finance director Mr. Krishnamoorthy, director of systems and operations Mr. Manoj Goyal plus few others. It must be noted that the second phase of the metro train project in Chennai is being implemented on 3 routes.
