Chennai Metro Rail Set To Introduce Driverless Trains In August. (Picture: Alstom)
Chennai Metro Rail gears up for driverless trains, set to debut in August. Enlargement plans embrace 138 trainsets for part 2, spanning 116.1km by 2028.
Chennai Metro Rail Restricted (CMRL) will quickly start working its first driverless trainset, which commuters could anticipate arriving as early as August.
In accordance with a report in Occasions Of India (TOI), extra trainsets would arrive within the coming months. For the 26-kilometer stretch that’s linked by 28 metro stations, three-car trainsets have been proposed to accommodate the anticipated passenger load.
As acknowledged by a CMRL official who spoke with TOI, one trainset will arrive in August, and 6 extra are anticipated to reach within the subsequent two months. “However earlier than the primary practice arrives, we should full laying of ballastless tracks on the elevated line within the hall by July,” he added.
The report additional acknowledged that CMRL intends to launch the elevated stretch on corridor-4 in 2025, beginning at Powerhouse in Kodambakkam and ending at Poonamallee Bypass. The Poonamallee depot, which is now underneath building, will home and preserve all trains working on hall 4 when it opens subsequent yr.
CMRL plans to accumulate a complete of 138 three-car trainsets for part 2, spanning 116.1 kilometres, which is able to open in levels from 2025 to 2028. Along with the 70 trainsets for which bids had been requested final yr, 32 trainsets had been the topic of a latest reopening of bids.
In part 1, the primary set of trains arrived from Brazil and had been parked on the Koyambedu depot till the strains had been prepared. The remaining stations to open are Thirumayilai metro, the intersection of Corridors 3 and 4, and some surrounding stations, in keeping with CMRL Managing Director M A Siddique.
Driverless trains will bypass the Thirumayilai metro till it’s prepared, with Lighthouse metro, the road’s beginning station, opening earlier than the latter.
In February, the rail authorities unveiled the primary look of the driverless trains.
The particular options included perch seats for standing passengers, CCTV cameras inside and outdoors vehicles, charging sockets for cellphones and laptops, seize handles in numerous colors at a decrease top for ladies, devoted house and an extended wait press button for passengers in wheelchairs and LCD screens for displaying real-time route maps and leisure.
Every of the three vehicles within the trainsets can accommodate roughly 1,000 passengers. Moreover, it’s going to have a design pace of 90 km/hr and an operational pace of 80 km/hr.
They can even be outfitted with detectors to detect obstacles and practice derailments in addition to a regenerative braking system to avoid wasting electrical energy.
