A Metro train that will be involved in the trial run of the phase-I of the Ahmedabad Metro Project in January 2019 was shipped from South Korea On Friday. The train with three coaches will be reaching Mundra port in Kutch on December 31, official sources said.
"The first train will reach the Apparel Park depot by January 2, 2019. It will take 10 days to assemble it and conduct some tests.
It will be ready for a trial run before or during the Vibrant Gujarat summit," said I P Gautam, Managing Director of Mega ( Metro-link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Company Ltd), a special purpose vehicle of Government of India and Government of Gujarat which is implementing the project.
The second train is expected to be imported from South Korea and is expected to reach Ahmedabad by January 26.
South Korean firm that won a Rs.1,025 crores contract will supply a total of 32 trains for phase 1 of the project. "A number of tests, including those for safety will be conducted before the project commissioned".
The trial run will take place in the first six-kilometer of the 40 kilometers long phase-1 of the project extending from Vastral gam to Apparel Park on the east-west corridor.
Before the first train got shipped, a "mock-up" coach of Ahmedabad metro was transported from South Korea was kept for public display.
