Chennai Metro rail from Koyambedu to Alandur in February to be tested
The Chennai Metro train will be tested on the elevated corridor from Koyambedu to Alandur in February. By September, the stretch, comprising seven stations, might be thrown open for public.
Chennai Metro Rail, built at a cost of Rs. 14,600 crore, will run across a 45-km stretch criss-crossing the city; half of this network will be on an elevated platform and the other half underground.It will have two corridors – one linking Washermenpet to Airport and the other, Chennai Central to St. Thomas Mount.Earlier, CMRL decided to conduct the trial run for Stage 1 of the project from Koyambedu to St. Thomas Mount, a distance of 11 km. But owing to delays in the civil work, they will now carry out this run only between Koyambedu to Alandur.
The first train, manufactured in Sao Paulo in Brazil, arrived in July and its test run was carried out on the 800 metre test-track located within the Koyambedu depot last November. Subsequently, two trains reached the city in the last week of November.According to officials, after the trial run, tracks and trains will have to go through several safety tests.
Nearly 50 per cent of the overall Metro
Rail work has been completed. The elevated corridor is approaching the final
stages of construction and a third of the work in the underground section is
over. Signaling and electrical work is under progress on the elevated corridor.
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