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Metro orders eight extra train coaches

NEW DELHI: To increase the carrying capacity of the existing trains and to meet the increasing rush of passengers, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has ordered eight additional train coaches that will be attached to some of the existing trains.

At present all the 70 trains have four coaches to cater to the 8,50,000 passengers who travel by the metro everyday. To handle the rush, the coaches will be added to four of the existing trains to make them into six car/coach trains.

“Each additional coach can carry a maximum of 390 people with 50 persons sitting and 340 standing. Thus, the carrying capacity will increase by 780 per train for the four trains in which two coaches will be added,” said DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal.

These additional coaches are being manufactured by Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) at their factory in Bangalore and the order for the same had recently been placed by DMRC and the first two coaches will be delivered by August 2009.

“It is for the first time that any Indian manufacturer/company will be making modern metro rail coaches entirely on their own without any collaboration with a foreign company as a joint venture. The coaches will be inducted into passenger service after converting the four car trains into six car trains in the metro maintenance depots, testing and trial of the trains for passenger worthiness,” said Mr. Dayal.

He said the DMRC can ultimately increase train lengths to eight coaches as all the Delhi metro platforms are built with the capacity to accommodate eight-coach trains, except for the new standard gauge lines coming up at Inderlok-Mundka, Central Secretariat-Badarpur and the Airport Express Line which can accommodate six coaches. The company has already ordered another 131 train sets that are currently in the process of being delivered. The DMRC expects the passenger rush to increase to two million after completion of Phase II of the Delhi metro project by 2010.The additional 131 trains will consist of 48 trains of six cars and 83 trains of four car formation.

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