{"id":443974,"date":"2021-10-21T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=443974"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T05:54:14","slug":"more-newer-rakes-in-kolkata-metro-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/more-newer-rakes-in-kolkata-metro-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"More newer rakes in Kolkata Metro fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in many years, the newer rakes outnumber the older ones in the Kolkata Metro fleet, long dubbed as \u201cageing and snag-prone\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The Kolkata Metro fleet now comprises 28 trains, all air-conditioned. <\/p>\n<p>Fifteen rakes are part of the group made at the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai and called Medha rakes. The remaining 13 are older, made by BHEL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix new trains, made at the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai, have arrived since September 2020 and are part of the operational fleet. Three more are due to arrive in the next four months,\u201d said a Metro official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in many years, the newer rakes outnumber the older ones in the Kolkata Metro fleet, long dubbed as \u201cageing and snag-prone\u201d. The Kolkata Metro fleet now comprises 28 trains, all air-conditioned. Fifteen rakes are part of the group made at the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai and called Medha rakes. The remaining 13 are older, made by BHEL. \u201cSix new trains, made at the Integral Coach Factory near Chennai, have arrived since September 2020 and are part of the operational fleet. Three more are due to arrive in the next four months,\u201d said a Metro official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,265,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}