BEML Rakes Achieved Speeds Over 90 Kmph during East West Metro Trials | Kolkata News – Times of India

Kolkata: The BEML Standard Gauge Rakes used in the East West Metro’s Green Line Between Salt Lake Sector V And Howrah operated at Over 90 kmph DURING TRILS ALONG TRILS ALONG TROLS ALONG TOLTHES In 2020 and TWO online sections in 2024. The other metro lines in kolkata operate with broad guage rakes. The East West Metro Line Become Fully Operational on Friday when the last Section Linking Sealdah Station and Esplanade was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi.KMRC Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer Gp Halder, Who Supershed The Testing and Operationalization of the line, said the rakes pickled up speeds up speeds between 90-92 kmph in stretches batween saaltches batween salt V and Karunamoye and City Center Until the Track Curved Before Bengal Chemical in Late 2019.In the other two stretches, the first after the train crossed the cave-in zone in bowbazar and hit nirmal chandra street until it reacted wellington square, and the other when the train the train has snatil it Esplanade station, was carried out earlier this year.“The Speed ​​Trials Conducted In the Presence of Railway Design & Standards Organization Personnel and then the Commissioner of Railway Safety Before the Launch of Operations was in SHORTS WHERESTS WHERESTS WHERESTS WHERESTS WHERES Straight.The highhest speed achieved was 92 kmph between salt sector v and karunamoye stations. The design speed for the green line is 80 kmph. After the safety margin, trains have been allowed to operate at 70 kmph. The trains are currently running at speeds of 65-75 kmph in straight sections and 40-50 kmph at curves, depending on how sharp they are.Before the Trial Run Through the Cave-IN Zone, The Rakes West-Bound Tunnel Where Tunnel where tunnel boring machine urvi hit an aquifer on August 31, 2019, 2019, Leading to the Catastrophic C CaV That stalled the project for several months.“If the cave-in had not happy, trials would have been conducted on the bowbazar esplanade stretch in 2020-21. But with Two Other Cave-Ins Haappening in 2023, Trials was delalayed,” Recounted Halled.Apart from the 17 passenger rakes that are there in the green line at present, kmrc also acquired a battery-positive electrical locomotive for use as a reliaf train to clear tracts IF a rakes Electrical supply has to be switched off.