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Delhi Metro to Introduce Six Coach Trains on Line-1

New Delhi, 04 April, 2011

After introducing six coach trains on Line 2 (Jahangirpuri to HUDA City Centre), Line-3 (Dwarka Sec-21 to NOIDA City Centre) and Line-4 (Yamuna Bank to Anand Vihar), the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has now decided to introduce the six coach trains on Line-1 too i.e, Dilshad Garden to Rithala from this week by inducting one such train.
The final trial run of first six coach train on Line-1 is under progress where the empty train is run for over 500 KM to ensure full safety of the Rolling Stock, Signalling, ATP, Electrical and other systems before inducting into passenger services.

The Delhi Metro has placed an order with BEML to convert four of its trains on Line-1 into six coach trains out of a total of 25. Thus, Line-1 will have 21 trains of four coach each and four trains of six coach each by the end of 2011.

This transition from four to six coach trains has helped decongest crowds at busy stations like Kashmere Gate and Rajiv Chowk in recent months as every six coach train is able to carry 600 more passengers per trip. Moreover, the Delhi Metro has recently increased peak hour frequency on its busiest Line-2 to 2 min 34 sec by adopting train services in two loops. The first loop is between Vishwavidyalaya to Green Park Metro station where trains run every 2 min 34 sec. to accommodate the high volume (about 60% of passengers of Line-2 i.e, about 3 lakh travel in this section) of passengers in this section. The second loop of trains operates between Jahangirpuri and HUDA City Centre with a frequency of 5 min 8 sec.

The Delhi Metro introduced the first six coach Metro train into passenger services on 23rd December 2010 on Line 3/4 and subsequently introduced the six coach trains on Line-2 from 06th February 2011. Presently, a total of 20 six-coach trains are running on these lines which include nine on Line-2 and eleven on Line-3/4.

By the end of 2011, there will be 99 six coach trains (Ninety Seven broad gauge and two standard gauge) in the Delhi Metro network. Total number of trains will be 208, of which 109 trains will be four coach. On Line-1, there will be four six coach trains and on Line 2, there will be fifty four six coach trains by the end of 2011.Similarly, on Line 3 and 4 there will be thirty nine six-coach trains and on Line-6 (Central Secretariat – Badarpur) there will be two six coach trains by the end of 2011.

Presently, the Delhi Metro is used by over 15 lakh passengers on any working day on its six operational lines where more than 2700 train trips are made each day traversing over 69000 KMs in day.  
 

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