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Metro Depot with a difference

Staff Reporter

It would cater to Line III of the DMRC project

SERVICE STATION: Delhi Metro Rail coaches wait for servicing at its new inspection yard, in New Delhi on Wednesday.- PHOTO: Anu Pushkarna .

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has completed construction of the Najafgarh Depot, which would cater to Line III of the Metro project, in a record period of 15 months paving the way for opening of the 22.90 km Barakhamba-Dwarka section in December end.

Stating that the maintenance depot, which has a full workshop facility, has been constructed for the East West corridor about 300 metres west of Dwarka station across the Najafgarh drain in South-West Delhi, DMRC said it has come up on 52 hectares of agriculture land for which full compensation has been paid. Trapezoidal in shape, the depot is about 1500 metres long and between 300 and 600 metres wide.

The facilities provided in the depot cater to civil, track work, electrical, overhead traction and signaling and telecommunication for operation and maintenance of rolling stock. But unlike others depots the Najafgarh Depot is architecturally impressive. Its exterior cladding is in red and white Dholpur sand stone.

The flooring has been done with Kota, marble and Marbo granite in office area. The workshop areas has heavy duty vacuum dewatered flooring.

But what really makes it visually attractive are the aluminium windows, pressed steel door frames with flush doors, the galvalum roof sheeting for industrial buildings and the concrete rigid pavements for arterial roads and flexible bituminous pavements for peripheral roads. Structural glazing has also been done at the Depot Control Centre.

The concept of pre-engineered buildings has been widely used in the industrial structures of depot and so unlike other Metro depots, the workshop and inspection buildings at Najafgarh Depot have been made of structural steel instead of concrete. The PEB structures are much lighter and are easier and quicker to construct.

The Najafgarh Depot will provide various facilities for inspection and over-haul of the modern rolling stock.

It has a four lines fully covered inspection shed on an area of 6000 sq. metres to provide for unscheduled and scheduled inspection for rolling stock on daily, weekly, by-monthly and annual basis. The shed has special features for over head and under deck inspection, and also inspection of air-conditioning and bogies components.

Then there is a fully covered workshop shed on 12,600 sq. metres that provides programmed over haul and repair facilities for major equipments of the rolling stock.

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