Metro Rail completes track laying between Koyambedu and Ashok Nagar
Posted on: 06/Dec/2013 2:16:41 PM
Chennai Metro Rail has completed the track laying between Koyambedu and Ashok Nagar stations. 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.
Officials inspected the track on a motor trolley recently. “Usually, we inspect a track by running motor trolley over it to check if the track fits to carry a train. After this, we complete the electrical and signaling work,” said another official,
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-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 March 2014.
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