Update on trains for CMRL
Posted on: 17/Jun/2013 10:52:38 AM
Nine out of the forty two trains that have been ordered by the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) will reach the city by December this year. The contract to build the trains have been given to Alstom Transport. They will build nine trains in Sao Paolo in Brazil and the rest in Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. The first train to reach Chennai was from Sao Paolo two weeks ago.
‘While the second train’s production is complete, the third one has reached the final stages. After tests are conducted on both these trains and approvals given, the trains will be shipped and are expected to arrive by mid-August… The car shells have already been produced for the next four trains and work on the last two is also progressing. A month after the second and third train arrive in August, the next two could arrive. We have scheduled it in such a way that we get the trains in batches of two, each with a month’s gap after they are completed. So, by December all nine will be ready for the trial run’, said a CMRL official.
