Trial run on Metro's Pink Line stretch completed

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) completed the trials and testing of the 20.6 kilometre long Majlis Park- Durgabhai Deshmukh South Campus section of its Pink Line (Phase 3) on Monday. The route has also received most of the important and mandatory clearance required for the next step of inviting the Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) to inspect the section, including fire safety, license for working lifts, preliminary Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) reports for signalling and platform screen doors, from the department of telecommunications.

The line 7 of the Pink corridor has 12 stations, including three interchange stations: Azadpur, Netaji Subhash Place and Rajouri Garden. The Metro will also cross Dhaula Kuan at a height of 23.6 metres (as high as a seven-storey building) to reach South Campus from Majlis Park.

Once the CMRS examines in detail the papers related to working of the Metro submitted by the rail corporation, further action is expected.

Delhi Metro's new UTO (Unattended Train Operations) enabled trains will operate on this corridor. The new trains, with extremely high levels of automation, will initially be run by train operators, that will gradually, move on to driverless operations (on the UTO mode).

Last week, the DMRC started test runs on the 10.47 km stretch between the IP Extension and Maujpur elevated section of the upcoming 59 km long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor on this line. This section from IP Extension - Maujpur consists of 9 elevated stations i.e. IP Extension, Anand Vihar, Karkardooma, Karkardooma Court, Krishna Nagar, East Azad Nagar, Welcome, Jaffrabad and Maujpur Station.

Battling with land acquisition woes at Patparganj, Anand Vihar, Welcome, Jaffrabad and Maujpur since the inception of the project, the DMRC is now hoping to roll out services on its longest corridor by April 2018.

NEW IS IN

• Delhi Metro’s new UTO (Unattended Train Operations) enabled trains will operate on this corridor. 
   
• Once the CMRS examines in detail the papers related to working of the Metro submitted by the rail corporation, further action is expected