The universal metro rail
Posted on: 09/Aug/2013 12:49:06 PM
There is some good news for Chennai people to cheer when it comes to metro rail. All of us know that the metro trains have been imported from Brazil but the point is every component has been imported. For case in point, even the clips and joints that keep the rail hooked to the sleeper are shipped from Britain and the tracks are rolled in from Manchester and given finish touches in France before being shipped to Chennai.
Travelers will know-how the touch of Chinese technological superiority every time they come into view out of an underground station, thanks to the escalators they had supplied. Cutting edge signalling technology has arrived from Germany. Service of the Austrian’s has been availed to put “point and crossing” technology in place. Metro travellers would not be able to set foot on the platform without going through the ticketing sensing and reading equipment custom made by the Japanese. A shipment comprising shunting loco had already left a port in the US. Not to mention, the very trains, including the first of its kind brought from Sao Paolo in Brazil and put on the tracks in the Rs 198 crores sprawling Koyambedu depot, have been designed and constructed by France based Alstom India Limited. Eight more four-car coaches will be brought from Brazil, while the remaining 33 will be manufactured at the Alstom factory under construction at Tada in Andhra.
The only Indian product is the rails produced by Tata Chorus Limited in France.
