Chennai Metro rail to operate from first week of July
Posted on: 24/Jun/2015 2:39:18 PM
Chennaites get ready to travel in the Chennai Metro Rail between Koyambedu and Alandur. The operations will begin during the first week of July. In the first phase, a total of 43 trains will be operated with a frequency of ten minutes between two trains.
The Operations Control Centre, the nerve centre of the Chennai Metro Rail operations, is gearing up to handle metro rail shortly. Officials in the centre will be controlling the entire rail movement, including the speed of the trains. The driver`s role will be to start the train and to open and close the doors. The functioning is fully automatic and there is very little human intervention, unless there is an emergency.
The Koyambedu main depot has main structures like administrative building, rolling stock shed, stabling shed, infrastructure shed, general store, canteen and auxiliary sub-stations. The Metro Rail depot in Koyambedu is nearly ready. It has automatic train wash plant, stabling shed with tracks to park 36 trains, pit wheel lathe to reprofile the wheels and infrastructure shed where rescue and diesel shunting locomotives are kept. Before leaving the depot, each train would undergo inspection at Inspection Bay Lanes before getting the certificate for operation.
