CMRL to conduct trial run between Koyambedu and Ashok Nagar in January 2014

The Metro Rail track between Koyambedu and St. Thomas Mount stations have been laid for nine kilometers. An 11-km track has to be laid between the two stations. The laying of track in this stretch began nearly one-and-a-half years ago. Work on the remaining two kilometres will be completed by January 2014. The overhead traction is also nearing completion. 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 January 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-metre test track in 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 January 2014.

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