KOLKATA: Metro Railway got its 16th Medha rake on Wednesday, which left Dum Dum for the terminal Kavi Subhas station on its first commercial run at 12.06pm. It started rolling for its Down journey again at 11.10pm.
Metro now has 29 rakes for Line 1 or the Dakshineswar-Kavi Subhas corridor. All are air-conditioned. The Medha rakes are from the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai. The remaining 13 are older, made by BHEL.
East-West Metro or Line 2, on the other hand, has 14 BEML-make rakes. Thus, Metro Railway’s newer rakes now outnumber the older “snag-prone” ones. “Seven new trains, made at ICF near Chennai, have arrived since September 2020 and are part of the operational fleet. Two more are due to arrive soon,” a Metro official said.
Metro is currently focussing on getting the Medha rakes as the railways is not showing any interest to procure the Chinese rakes that were supposed to replace the carrier’s aging fleet.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/new-metro-medha-rake-starts-rolling/articleshow/89005834.cms
