Metro Rail News December 2016

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS|
The tunnel consists of a total of 904 rings and has
been constructed about 20 metres below the surface.
With this tunnel breakthrough, DMRC in Phase 3 has
now completed one of the largest ever tunneling
projects taken up in any urban area all over the
world where a record 30 TBMs were used to bore
close to 80 kilometres of underground tunnels
(combining the length of both tunnels for to and fro
movement of trains). The total underground corridor
length in Phase 3 including the stations is about 54
kilometres.
Lucknow Metro | Alstom delivers ahead of schedule the first Lucknow Metro
trainset
Lucknow: Lucknow Metro unloaded the four coaches
of the first train set that arrived in the Transport
Nagar Depot. Shri Kumar Keshav, Managing
Director, other Directors and senior officers of the
company were present in the Depot during this
occasion to witness this historic event. LMRC
achieved a major milestone today when the company
succeeded in getting the delivery of the first Metro
train set in just 64 weeks after placing an order to
M/s Alstom. According to the order, the contractor
had to, however, supply the first train set to LMRC in
65 weeks. On 2nd September, 2015, Lucknow Metro
had awarded the contract for supply, testing &
commissioning of 80 cars for 20 trains of four cars
each along with train control & signaling system for
Lucknow Metro Phase-1A project to French
company, a consortium of ALSTOM Transport India
Ltd, Bangalore & ALSTOM Transport SA, France at a
cost of Rs1069.81 crores.
Metro Rail News | December 2016 | www.metrorailnews.in 23