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Bengaluru Metro Gets Its Second Six-Coach Train, Third Set To Be Commissioned By Month-End
Bengaluru’s Namma Metro. (Jagdeesh MV/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
The second six coach metro train has been flagged off by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday (October 4) at the Kempegowda metro station in Bengaluru.
“The six-coach train has a carrying capacity of over 2,000 passengers at a time. We will operate it on the busy East-West Corridor (Baiyappanahalli – Mysuru road),” said BMRCL MD Ajay Seth, as reported by MRN. He added saying that over 19,000 passengers use services on the East-West between 9.30 am and 10.30 am but the North-South Corridor (Nagasandra – Yelechenahalli) records a ridership of only 8,000.
The BMRCL, Seth said, would introduce the third set of six-coach trains in October-end. The City received the first six-coach train in June this year. The process of converting all the 53 coach train into six-coach train would take place next year.
In March 2017, Bengaluru based BEML Ltd had won Rs 1,421 crore contract from BMRCL to supply 150 intermediate metro coaches.
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