Three passengers, including a two-year-old boy, were found dead on a railway track and eight others sustained burn injuries after an unidentified person set co-passengers on fire on board an express train bound for Kannur in Kerala late Sunday. The incident occurred at 9.45 pm inside the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express when the train was about […]
Category: Railways
With arrival of 9 trains by July, a key step forward for first underground Metro
The commercial operations for the first phase of Mumbai’s first underground metro – Aqua Line – will be carried out with nine trains, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) has told The Indian Express. The arrival of the trains, each having eight coaches, is expected by July. It will be a key step forward […]
HC dismisses pleas challenging construction of Metro 4, says no error in alignment and land acquisition process
The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed two pleas challenging the construction of Metro Line 4 on grounds that it could not find any error in the Maharashtra government and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) finalising the alignment of the corridor, executing the work and acquiring land for the project. Metro 4 (Wadala […]
Bombay HC asks MMRCL not to fell 177 trees at Aarey Colony until SC decides
The Bombay High Court on Friday ordered the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) to not cut down any of the 177 trees at Aarey Colony for the Metro 3 car shed project, as per the permission granted by BMC Tree Authority, until the Supreme Court decides on the matter. A division bench of Acting […]
School students to be ferried for inaugural Vande Bharat ride from Madhya Pradesh
Filling up a new train to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it seems, is no mean feat. Students from schools and colleges, civil society members and even families of railway employees will be ferried in buses to fill the seats of the inaugural superfast Vande Bharat Express between Bhopal’s Rani Kamlapati railway station […]
Hyderabad Metro phase 2: KTR writes to Centre alleging discrimination, wants proposal approved on merits
Telangana minister K T Rama Rao has appealed to the Union government to “get the Hyderabad Metro Rail Phase-2 project proposal examined dispassionately on the merits of the DPR and have it approved at an early date.” A controversy has erupted in Hyderabad over the alleged denial of approval for phase-2 of the project by […]
Draft amendment circulated for inter-ministerial feedback says no earnings, parcels of land of Metro shall be attached
The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has proposed an amendment to the Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 that would prevent attachment of any property or funds of Metro rail administrations across all cities in case of a dispute. In a draft amendment and background note circulated for inter-ministerial feedback on March 17, […]
Simulator infrastructure ready at Mumbai’s Mandale depot to train Metro pilots
The construction of a 21-metre-high simulator building comprising a three-story structure with a total 3,278.66 square metre built-up area at Mandale depot has been completed. The simulator, on the lines of aircraft simulators, will offer training to Metro train pilots and operators, through real-time simulation. Earlier, the Mumbai Metro drivers or pilots were sent to […]
CAG report points to cost escalation for Rs 529-crore ROB
A report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which audited the expenditure incurred by the BMC between November 2019 and December 2022, has pointed out possibilities of a cost escalation for the proposed Rs 529-crore railway over bridge (ROB) at Mahalaxmi. The ROB is supposed to be a cable-stayed bridge that would extend above […]
80% seats for first-ever Bharat Nepal Ashtha Yatra booked, train to start on March 31: IRCTC
More than 80 per cent of seats for the first-ever trip of the 600-seater ‘Bharat Nepal Ashtha Yatra’ special train have already been booked, said an IRCTC source Monday. The train is scheduled to start its journey from Jalandhar in Punjab on March 31. The route will cover Ayodhya, Varanasi, and Prayagraj in India and […]
Mumbai monorail turns the corner
Mumbai’s monorail service, which had turned into an infrastructure white elephant that was rapidly losing ridership, is slowly making a turnaround, registering its highest passenger usage in the last six years. In the financial year 2022-23, a total of 36.36 lakh commuters have used the service so far, which is the highest in the last […]
Vande Bharat to run on Jammu-Srinagar route
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday announced that a Vande Bharat Metro train will run between Jammu and Srinagar once the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link Project (USBRL) becomes fully operational. He also said that a Vande Bharat maintenance facility will be set up at Budgam once the railway line gets completed by December this year […]