CMRL to conduct trial run between Koyambedu and Ashok Nagar in January 2014
Posted on: 14/Dec/2013 11:55:58 AM
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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