Chennai Metro Rail work advances
Posted on: 30/Nov/2013 11:22:20 AM
Nine kilometers of Metro Rail track have been laid between Koyambedu and St. Thomas Mount stations. 11-km track has to be laid between the two stations. Track-laying up to Sidco station in Ekattuthangal has been completed. Officials inspected the track on a motor trolley on Friday. Usually inspection of a track will be conducted by running motor trolley over it to check if the track fits to carry a train. After this, the electrical and signaling work will be completed. The laying of track in this stretch began nearly one-and-a-half years ago. Work on the remaining two kilometers will be completed in another two months.
Chennai Metro Rail, being built at a cost of Rs. 14,600 crore, will have two corridors � one that runs from Chennai Central to St. Thomas Mount and the other from Washermenpet to Chennai airport.
CMRL plans to conduct a trial run from Koyambedu to Alandur by March next year so this stretch can become operational by mid-2014.
The first train that arrived from Sao Paulo, Brazil, late in May, has been tested on the 800-meter test track at the depot at Koyambedu.
Soon after the track work along Koyambedu-St. Thomas Mount is completed, it will be tested on the elevated path. The trial run is expected to be done in March 2014.
