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DMRC starts preliminary work on fifth bridge over Yamuna River for Phase IV Project

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DMRC starts preliminary work on fifth bridge over Yamuna River for Phase IV Project

New Delhi (Metro Rail News): The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started preliminary work on the 5th Metro bridge over river Yamuna, which is coming up on the Majlis Park – Maujpur Metro corridor of Delhi Metro Phase 4. The bridge will be 560 metres long. As of today, there are four existing bridges of Delhi Metro on the Yamuna River

The bridge is going to connect the Soorghat Metro Station and the Sonia Vihar Metro Station of the Majlis Park – Maujpur corridor. After carrying out a geotechnical investigation at the location of proposed piers, the activity of casting of test piles is in progress. The active course of Yamuna has been constructed by raising the level of the ground by filling of earth and sand from a nearby area with the protection of its slope through bamboo, jute netting and sandbags. The level of cofferdam has been kept the same as the level of the adjacent road to ensure smooth supply of construction materials.

This bridge will come up between two existing bridges on the Yamuna. These existing ones are Wazirabad Bridge and the Signature Bridge. If officials are to be believed, it is going to be first-ever Metro bridge over the Yamuna to be built using the Cantilever construction method. A cantilever is a rigid structural element which extends horizontally and is supported at only one end. Typically it extends from a flat, vertical surface such as a wall or pier, to which it must be firmly attached. Cantilever construction allows overhanging structures without additional support. This beautifies the look of a structure.

To finalize the Phase 4 designs, DMRC’s engineers are using the BIM platform, through which they have been able to finalise the designs even during the days of the pandemic when physical meetings weren’t possibleThis bridge crosses river Yamuna at about 385m downward of old Wazirabad Bridge and 213m upstream of existing Signature Bridge.

According to sources, mandatory approvals from the concerned agencies have been obtained for the construction of the bridge. DMRC is committed to fulfilling the conditions given by the Principal Committee on the Yamuna for construction of the bridge.

Indian Railways begins construction of world’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur

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Indian Railways begins construction of world’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur

Imphal (Metro Rail News): – Indian Railways has initiated many projects in North East India in its effort to provide better connectivity to the region with a special focus in connecting the remotest areas of the seven sister states. The Railways is taking multiple steps for improving transportation and connectivity in some of the backward areas of the region.

One such step of the Indian Railways is to construct a pier bridge in Manipur. The North-East Frontier Railway zone of the Indian Railways has started the construction of the world’s tallest pier bridge in the North-Eastern state of Manipur. This move is going to provide efficient and effective rail connectivity to the region. The bridge which is being constructed across river Ijai near Noney is being seen as an engineering marvel because of the tallest pier height in the project will be of 141 meter. It will surpass the existing record of 139 meters of Mala – Rijeka viaduct that of Montenegro in Europe.

The bridge is a part of Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new BG line project (111 Km). The total length of the bridge will be 703 meters. The piers of the bridge are constructed using hydraulic augers, the tall piers needed specially designed “slip-form technique” to ensure efficient and continual construction.

“The total length of the bridge will be 703 meters. The piers of the bridge are constructed using hydraulic augers. The tall piers needed specially designed ‘slip-form technique’ to ensure efficient and continual construction,” a Railway official said. The steel girders are pre-fabricated in a workshop, transported in segments and erected at the site.

Best Ways to Spend Your Time in Metro

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Best Ways to Spend Your Time in Metro

Riding a metro is a daily occurrence for many Indians. Every day 1.5 million passengers ride the New Delhi metro alone, as it is fast, safe, efficient, cheap, and incredibly convenient. But, despite all this, riding a metro can be quite boring, especially if you do it every day. In this article, we bring you several ideas on what to do while waiting to get to your destination.

Play Mobile Games

This is, hands down, the most common way to spend time in a metro. Find an app or two you like, and play them whenever you are riding to school, work, or visit a family member. We suggest you try some relaxing and non-violent games. For instance, you can spin some slots on brands from list of Microgaming online casinos for Indians play hidden mystery games, dress up your model for the fashion competition, or create an imaginary cricket team. And who knows, maybe you will need a helping hand from the passenger sitting next to you to finally finish that level you have been playing for weeks.

Listen to Some Music

Get some high-quality headphones and listen to your favorite music. Please, don’t be that passenger that is playing music so everyone can hear, but keep your volume at a lower level. Don’t hesitate to tap your feet, swing your hips from time to time or nod your head – you might feel silly, but we guarantee everyone in the train will smile at you and your good mood, even if it’s 6 AM and you are on your way to work. You can also create different playlists for different occasions. For instance, in the morning listen to upbeat pop, on the way home choose some relaxing music, and if you are angry at your boss – play some loud heavy metal, and look dangerous doing it. Just don’t start any fights!

Read a Book

Indians are champions of reading, as they read more than other nations. While the average Indian ready 10 hours per week, the average Brit dedicates only 5 hours of his time to books. To keep this record going, grab a book and read on a train. Keep up with the theme,and read the bestselling The Girl on the Train, a 2015 psychological thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins, or imagine you are riding the Hogwarts Express while rereading the Harry Potter series. And to spice things up, pick up some biographies by famous Indians and be surprised and fascinated by their real life adventures. After all, real life writes the best plots.

Take a Nap

Take it from Japanese, and simply take a nap. While it is not uncommon to see construction workers, teenagers, and students dozing off, most people still hesitate to nap in a metro. Of course, you don’t have to take a real nap: sometimes just closing your eyes, and letting your imagination go wild can be quite relaxing. And if you are afraid you will fall asleep and miss your station, simply write your station on a piece of paper and attach it to your jacket or bag.
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We are sure someone will wake you up. Eventually.

Catch Up with Friends and Relatives

Nowadays, we are all so busy we forget to reply to our favorite auntie asking how we are doing or to wish a happy birthday to our childhood friends. Make commute time your chat time, by sending a simple message to a friend or relative you have forgotten about due to all the obligations and hectic schedule. Just a simple “Hi, how are you’” can make someone’s day, and who knows, maybe you’ll finally meet for a cup of coffee or tea – something you two have been planning to do for a few months, but haven’t got the time for.

Think Up Stories

This is a fun one! Take a closer look at that bearded guy reading a comic book to his son. What is their story? And how about that couple that isn’t talking to each other, but sits quietly? Maybe they were in a fight or they broke up after she decided to marry the acrobat and will now live in a circus? And that couple of strangers throwing glances at each other – we bet it’s the beginning of an amazing love story worthy of a Bollywood movie. We can go on and on, but you get the picture. Be imaginative and creative, and the more obscure scenarios and storylines – the better.

Do the Math Count stations, tiles, seats, women wearing white tops, and men wearing blue shirts. Are there more people carrying laptops, or groceries? Counting is fun and if you really get into it, you can create your own daily silly statistics. They won’t have much scientific value, but you never know.

Telangana set for establishing the largest private rail coach factory

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Telangana set for establishing the largest private rail coach factory

Hyderabad ( Metro Rail News ) – Hyderabad will soon be home to the country’s largest railway coach factory in the private sector, with IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao laying the foundation stone for the Rs 1,000 crore Medha Servo Rail Coach factory at Kondakal village in Ranga Reddy district on Thursday.

Telanganas Industries Minister K. T. Rama Rao on Thursday laid the foundation stone for Medha Rail Coach Factory at Kondakal near Hyderabad.
Rangareddy: Telangana Industries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao at the groundbreaking ceremony of Medha rail coach factory in Kondakal of Shankarpally Mandal in Rangareddy district on Aug 13, 2020. (Phto: IANS)

Underscoring Telangana’s emergence as a major investment destination in various sectors, the Minister, speaking after the groundbreaking ceremony, said: “Hyderabad has an aviation hub at Adibhatla that makes components for Boeing, Apache and Sikorsky aircraft and helicopters, a tractor factory in Zaheerebad, a bus building unit in Hyderabad and now railway coaches will also be manufactured in Telangana.”


The factory which will have facilities to manufacture coaches, locomotives, intercity trainsets, metro trains, monorail, among others, will provide direct employment to at least 1,000 persons besides generating indirect employment for another 1,200. The planned production capacity would be 500 coaches of various types and 50 locomotives per year.
Rama Rao, stating that the State government’s proactive approach and conducive policies had encouraged Medha Group to establish its world-class rail coach factory in the State, said the facility signals the creation of an ecosystem for rail coach manufacturing in Telangana State.

He called upon Medha, established by home grown entrepreneurs, to explore the possibility of venturing into the Rs 30,000 crore initiative of the Union government for manufacture of Metro coaches. He also urged the company to participate in monorail or metro rail projects in tier two cities like Warangal, besides entering the huge Electric Vehicles (EV) market taking advantage of the State government’s recent EV policy. “You must analyse our policy and come up with ideas to manufacture EV buses, cars, two-wheelers and even three-wheelers,” he said


He attributed the stupendous growth of Medha, established in 2005, to sheer hard work, and pointed out that it had grown from a Rs 25 crore company to setting up 12 factories across five continents. “Medha being a homegrown company makes Telangana proud,” he added.

Telangana must transform into a self-reliant State, which is the aim of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. We must acquire the knowledge to manufacture world-class equipment.
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Medha can partner with European companies and make Telangana the only State to produce world-class railway coaches,” he said, adding that once the 160 km speed locomotives manufactured by Medha hit the tracks, the entire lifestyle of daily commuters will change.

Daily commute

“Anyone who works in Hyderabad need not necessary have to live in the city. A person from Adilabad can reach Hyderabad in just one hour. Similarly, anyone living in Vijayawada can reach Hyderabad in two hours and from Hyderabad to Bengaluru in just three hours,” he was stated saying.

Urging the Medha Group to consider adopting Kondakal and Velmal villages as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility, the Minister also appealed to the MPs to spend money from MPLADS in establishing skill development centres to train local youth under Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK).

CMRL conducts competitions for staff on Independence Day

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CMRL conducts competitions for staff on Independence Day

Chennai (Metro Rail News): In a distinguished style, the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) celebrated the 74th Independence Day on Saturday with adopting different methods than the previous years amid the rising cases of Coronavirus infections.

The Managing Director of CMRL Mr. Pradeep Yadav hoisted the national flag. A parade was also organised at the CMRL headquarters in Koyambedu.
Competitions such as chess, carrom, badminton, tennis, and brisk walk were conducted. Among the participants, 45 of them won prizes. The prizes were distributed by the managing director.
Sujatha Jayaraj, director of finance, Rajeev Narayan Dwivedi, director of projects, also participated in the event.

A statement issued by the CMRL said that events were done according to the Covid safety norms. “The staffs wore masks and maintained social distancing as a protective measure against Covid-19” , the statement said.

Railway’s private train project sees the massive response

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Railway’s private train project sees the massive response

New Delhi (Metro Rail News) Twenty-three firms including GMR group, Spanish coach and component maker CAF, Bombardier India along with public sector entities RITES and Bharat Heavy Electricals, are reported to have shown interest in operating train services in the country. Other companies that attended the first pre-application conference (also the first meeting) on the private train project, convened on Wednesday, included RK Associates, Sterlite Power, Medha Group (which had also bid for the Train 18 project), Railways’ catering arm IRCTC, Bharat Forge, and JKB Infrastructure, reports citing sources said. Railways, however, has not revealed the names of companies that have participated in the meeting. Under the private train project, Indian Railways is supposed to lease out 109 routes across the railway network to private entities to run modern passenger trains. The Railways proposes to hand over 151 routes to private operators on lease. The project for private participation in passenger train operations will bring in a paradigm shift in passenger experience by significantly enhancing the quality of service while reducing transit time and supply-demand deficit through the introduction of modern rolling stock. The project will augment the availability of transportation services for the public, a railway ministry release stated.

These trains will be in addition to trains already on board of the Railways.The private train project would entail private sector investment of around Rs30,000 crore. Introduction of these additional private trains will also boost job opportunitiesThe private partners for undertaking the project will be selected through a two-stage competitive bidding process comprising of Request for Qualification (RFQ) and Request for Proposal (RFP).Post first pre-application conference, the railway ministry reduced the RFQ fee by a tenth for participating in more than one project, removed restriction of up to three projects per bidder and clarified that leasing of trains is allowed. The ministry has also shared traffic data, draft concession agreement, draft feasibility report and draft manual for standards and specifications of trains etc.

As part of the bidding process, the railway ministry conducted the second Pre-Application Conference on August 12, 2020, which received an overwhelmingly positive response, with participation from about 23 prospective Applicants with varied profiles.

The Railways will announce the responses to second pre-application conference by 21 Aug 2020. 

Investigators confirm derailed train hit landslide in Britain

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Investigators confirm derailed train hit landslide in Britain

London (Metro Rail News): A passenger train hit a landslide before derailing in Scotland earlier this week, killing three people, U.K. rail investigators confirmed Friday.

A train track obstruction had been suspected of playing a role in Wednesday’s derailment near the coastal town of Stonehaven, about 100 miles (160 kilometres) northeast of Edinburgh because it happened after heavy rain and flooding in the area.

Thankfully, fatal derailments are a rare occurrence on the U.K.s national network, Simon French, chief inspector of rail accidents, said. However, landslips and other earthworks failures remain a risk to trains that need to be constantly managed and this is becoming even more challenging for the rail industry due to the increasing incidence of extreme weather events.

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch, which French oversees, said that after the train derailed, it kept going in a straight line as the track curved to the right.
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The lead power car struck a bridge parapet and fell down a wooded embankment with the third passenger car.

Prince Charles is visiting the accident site Friday to thank emergency workers who came to help others in rugged terrain.

Infrastructure manager Network Rail dispatched engineers, contractors and surveyors in helicopters to assess sites similar to the location of the derailment.

Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa hopes to Open Bengaluru metro phase 2 by 2024

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Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa hopes to Open Bengaluru metro phase 2 by 2024

Bangalore (Metro Rail News ) – Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said that he hopes to complete the Rs 30,695 crore Bengaluru metro phase 2 project in the city by 2024, and said his government was taking measures to reboot “social and organic facilities” here to improve the basic infrastructure.

In his speech during the 74th Independence Day celebrations here, he said, “we will take up Phase II of Bangalore Metro at a cost of Rs 30,695 crore and we hope to complete the project by June 2024.”

Noting that some 110 acres of land that belongs to NGEF near the Byappanahalli Metro station has been identified and “we are designing people-friendly plans here”, Yediyurappa said, “In this plot, we will grow plants with a wide variety of species with organic diversity.”

The plans also include setting up of food court, traditional cottage industry, fun park for children and provide space for handloom exhibition and sale, he said.

Yediyurappa said the government has a plan to create greenery on either side of the 400 km primary canals, besides carving out bicycle and pedestrian trails next to the bund.

In the first stage, the historic major canal from Dharmanbudhi Lake to Bellandur lake will be taken up for this project with eco-system, construction of 36km length walking and cycling path and embellish the citys cultural and social facets in that region, he added.

First girder & viaduct placed on Kochi metro Rail extension stretch

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First girder & viaduct placed on Kochi metro Rail extension stretch

Kochi ( Metro Rail News ) – Even though the pandemic is getting worst, the work of Kochi Metro Rail’s extension up to Tripunithura from Petta is progressing according to the deadline. The first precast girder and viaduct for the stretch were placed near Panamkutty Bridge at Petta here on 13th.

The Phase I extension of Kochi Metro consists of two stretches, first from Petta to SN Junction comprising of two stations — Vadakkekotta and SN Junction — and a two-lane bridge across the Panamkutty river. The estimated cost of the work is Rs 360 crore according to official sources.

“Kochi Metro restarted the construction work on April 21. It followed COVID protocol in all aspects. Despite the challenges, we were able to retain the labour force. We are planning to complete the construction in a time-bound manner,” Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) managing director Alkesh Kumar Sharma was stated saying.

Hailing KMRL’s efforts, Secretary of Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Durga Shanker Mishra tweeted, “In spite of the challenges, precast pier cap and girders were launched yesterday. Heartiest congratulations to Kochi Metro Rail team! I am sure you will continue working with the same grit and determination for getting metro rail operational in time to bring ease in living to citizens.”

Different projects of the Kochi Metro Rail are running without delay and are expected to get completed on time as per sources in the Kochi Metro Rail Limited.

182 trains to run between Mumbai and Konkan for Ganesh Chaturthi

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182 trains to run between Mumbai and Konkan for Ganesh Chaturthi

Mumbai ( Metro Rail News ) – Around 182 train services are expected to run to and from Mumbai to various part of Konkan from August 15 to cater to the rush of passengers on the occasion of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi.

Among these, 163 services will be operated by Central Railway (CR) and 20 will be operated by Western Railway. Only those with confirmed tickets will be allowed to board these trains as per official sources.

CR’s chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar was stated saying, “Passengers are advised to adhere all norms, SOPs related to Covid-19 during the boarding, travel and at destination.”


Train no 01101/2 CSMT-Sawantwadi Road special will run between August 15 and September 23. It will leave CSMT at 11.05 pm and Sawantwadi at 10.10 am.
Train no. 01103/4 LTT-Kudal will leave LTT at 11.50 pm August 15 to August 22. The train will run from Kudal at 12 pm till August 23.
Train no. 01105/6 CSMT-Sawantwadi Road will leave CSMT at 10 pm daily between August 15-22. From Sawantwadi Road it will leave depart at 08.50 am between August 16 and 23.
Train no. 01107/8 LTT-Ratnagiri special will leave LTT at 10.30 pm between August 15-22. On its return journey, it will leave Ratnagiri at 6.30 am till August 23.
Train no. 01109/10 CSMT-Sawantwadi Road will leave CSMT at 07.10 am and from Sawantwadi at 8.35 pm daily from August 25 to September 5.
Train no 01111/12 CSMT-Sawantwadi will leave CSMT at 5.50 am and Sawantwadi at 4.15 pm daily between August 25 and September 5.
Train no 01113/14 LTT-Sawantwadi Road Special will leave LTT at 5.30 am and Sawantwadi at 5.30 pm daily from August 24 to September 5

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