Hyderabad Metro Rail, a PPP project involving the Government of Telangana and L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited (LTMRHL) is poised to give Hyderabad, India’s IT and pharmaceutical powerhouse, a people-friendly, green, seamlessly connected intermodal mass transit system. The project, one of the world’s largest PPP Metro project, aims to bring lifestyle changes in Hyderabad and transform it into the nation’s ...
As is known, Hyderabd Metro once completed will be one of the best mass rapid transport projects in the world, especially built on the PPP model. There are two hundred mass transit systems in the world and out of these, less than half a dozen are built on this model. Mostly, these are government funded and managed projects for the ...
L&T Metro Rail, the concessionaire for the 72km elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project recently began the first test run for the project. The test run is being conducted on a train with three coaches. Several tests will be conducted on the rolling stock, both in static and running conditions in the depot and viaduct. After completion of these tests, there ...
Hyderabad Metro has received its first set of rails – about 5,000 tonnes of rails from Tata Steel, France, which is one of the largest suppliers of rails to major rail projects around the world. The project needs about 22,500 tonnes of rails which will be procured in six lots. Each rail is 18m long and weighs about 1100kg. Since ...
Larsen & Toubro, the concessionaire for the elevated Hyderabad Metro Rail project has awarded South Korean company Hyundai Rotem the contract to supply engines and train sets for the metro rail. Hyundai Rotem will supply the rolling stocks nine months before each stage of the project is commissioned. Besides this, the tenders received for the supply of signalling and train ...
The contract to design a 14km metro line for the planned Hyderabad Metro has gone to RMJM, the internationally famous architectural firm. One of the three metro lines to be built for the city, it will have 13 elevated stations and two interchange stations. The latter will be about 5,000sqm in size with one of the stations connecting the metro ...
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