In a primary-ever mid-life overhaul of its vintage rolling stock, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday unveiled its first refurbished train which became brought into carrier 14 years ago as part of its Phase-I network.
This exercising is part of a unique force undertaken via the Delhi Metro to retrofit and improve to modern requirements all 70 trains which have been procured via the city transporter among 2002-2007, and the plan is to complete refurbishment of the primary set of 10 trains by September next yr, a senior legit said.
The first upgraded train, now geared up with LCD display, hearth alarm device, CCTV cameras outside and inside coaches and in teach operator's cabins, emergency button, charging socket for cell cellphone and laptops which include through USB cables, new floors and redone outdoors, turned into unveiled through DMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh on the Yamuna Bank Depot here.
"We have unveiled these days the primary refurbished educate which became delivered into service in 2007. The upgrade manner took about years. An common existence span of a metro train is about 30 years, and the trains procured at some stage in Phase-I, from 2002-2007 have already finished 14-19 years in their average lifestyles span," Executive Director, DMRC's Corporation Communications, Anuj Dayal instructed journalists.
Hyundai Rotem is the maker of the refurbished train that become unveiled these days, he stated, adding that the workout has been finished to "improve the antique stock to modern standards and equipping it with latest generation, as many features we see in trendy trains walking on Phase-III community, were not present in 2002-2007 length".
"Also, this is being executed to increase the comfort stage of commuters as the floors had turn out to be uneven and cracks had advanced at a few places. That has now been changed with fibre composite boards to decorate facilities and aesthetic appearance," Dayal added.
He stated the DMRC endeavours to maintain its trains in excellent circumstance, thru its three-day to 8-year protection routine.
But, that is a "first-ever mid-life overhaul workout" that the DMRC has taken, because it commenced operations, Dayal stated, including that electrical gadget has additionally been upgraded.
Delhi Metro had all started its business operations on December 25, 2002, an afternoon after then high minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had inaugurated DMRC's first stretch, spanning eight.2 kilometre from Shahdara to Tis Hazari, with simply six stations.
Dayal also told reporters that DMRC trains, on a mean, run four hundred-600 km an afternoon and sixteen-18 hours a day.
The senior DMRC reliable stated, in the next 10 months, the plan is to refurbish one train according to month, and whole the retrofitting and upgrade of the primary set of ten trains with the aid of September 2022.
Initially, out of the ten trains, a fixed of seven are being refurbished at DMRC's Yamuna Bank Depot and three trains at Shastri Park Depot, he stated.
The refurbishment is being carried out via a consortium of Escorts Limited's Railway Equipment Division and South Africa-based Naledi Rail Engineering, the DMRC said.
The DMRC network's contemporary span is nearly 392 km with 286 stations (inclusive of the NoidaGreater Noida Metro Corridor and Rapid Metro, Gurgaon).
In any other milestone for the DMRC, driverless teach operations on fifty nine-km Pink Line of the Delhi Metro changed into started from November 25 this year.
India's first-ever driverless train operations at the Delhi Metro's Magenta Line become inaugurated on December 28 ultimate 12 months by using Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With this, the full stretch of DMRC's network which is underneath driverless operations, now stands at near 97 km, putting Delhi Metro at fourth role globally, amongst such networks, officers in advance said.
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