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Delhi Metro to acquire more trains

NEW DELHI: Aiming to increase its ridership, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will place an order for another 15 train sets for its Phase I network.

These trains will supplement the 10 train sets that have already been added to the Metro fleet this year and will in turn help enhance its services. The DMRC at present has 70 trains and with the procurement of the new trains, the size of the fleet will go up to 85.

The new trains being procured will have four coaches each and can carry up to 1,500 commuters per trip.

These trains will be procured from the consortium of Mitsubishi Corporation, ROTEM and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MRM), which had supplied the earlier trains for DMRC.

“Bharat Earth Movers Limited, Bangalore, which has a technical tie-up with the MRM consortium, will make these trains. The delivery of the new trains is tentatively expected to start from the end of 2008 onwards,” the DMRC said in a statement on Sunday.

“Of the 10 additional trains procured earlier this year, seven have already been inducted into service. It has been seen that the average ridership of the Metro has seen a steady rise ever since these trains were inducted,” a DMRC official said.

“The first train was inducted in April this year and the average ridership increased to 5.01 lakh from 4.72 lakh in March 2007. Three more trains were inducted in May and the average ridership increased to 5.34 lakh. In July 2007, two trains were inducted and the average ridership jumped to 5.96 lakh. Another train was put into service in August and the average ridership increased to 6.15 lakh. The three remaining trains are likely to be inducted by the end of this month.”

The DMRC claims with that with the induction of seven trains since April 2007, it has recorded an average ridership increase from 4.72 lakh to 6.15 lakh, a jump of about 30 per cent.

“With these trains in service, the peak hour frequency on the Metro network has been reduced from 5 minutes to 4 minutes. The addition of 15 new trains from next year will further reduce the headway between trains,” the official added.

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