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The archetypal six-coach bid for Delhi Metro’s Phase-IV enlargement arrives astatine Mukundpur depot, Friday. (PTI)
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) marked a important milestone Friday arsenic the archetypal six-coach bid for Phase-4 operations arrived successful the Capital.
“The bid is stationed astatine Mukundpur depot wherever it volition acquisition a fig of tests required for its statutory certification for gross work arsenic a portion of established rules and protocols,” said DMRC Principal Executive Director of Corporate Communications, Anuj Dayal. The bid set, manufactured by Alstom astatine its installation successful Sricity adjacent Chennai, was inaugurated connected September 23.
Under the contract, DMRC volition person a full of 312 coaches, oregon 52 bid sets, to tally connected 3 precedence corridors — Majlis Park to Maujpur (Pink Line extension), Janakpuri West to RK Ashram Marg (Magenta Line extension), and Tughlakabad to Delhi Aerocity (Golden Line) — arsenic portion of the Phase-4 operations.
Once operational, the Janakpuri West–RK Ashram Marg hold volition person 144 caller coaches (24 trains), the Mukundpur–Maujpur hold volition get 90 coaches (15 trains), and the Aerocity–Tughlakabad corridor 78 coaches (13 trains). All bid sets volition beryllium delivered to Delhi successful assorted phases implicit the coming months.
The caller trains are designed for speeds of up to 95 km/h and operational speeds of 85 km/h, equipped with Grade of Automation (GOA) 4 for driverless operations.
The Phase-4 enlargement comprises 86 km of caller lines crossed 5 corridors, including the under-construction Janakpuri West–RK Ashram Marg, Majlis Park–Maujpur and Aerocity–Tughlakabad. Two further corridors, Lajpat Nagar–Saket-G Block and Indraprastha–Inderlok are successful pre-tendering stages.
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