L&T Hyderabad metro gets rail coaches from Hyundai-Rotem

Source: Business Line  may 21, 2014

L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd (LTMRHL) has announced the arrival of the first metro train for the project at the Uppal depot here from South Korea made in Hyundai-Rotem plant.

SN Subrahmanyam, Whole-time Director and Senior Executive Vice-President, Construction and Infrastructure, L&T, was a part of the team which welcomed the rolling stock in Uppal depot in Hyderabad.

After review of the project, he emphasised on the completion of the project within the scheduled time, cost and quality.

‘New era begins’

NVS Reddy, Managing Director, HMRL, in a statement, said “It is the beginning of a new era in the transportation history of Hyderabad.”

VB Gadgil, Chief Executive and Managing Director, L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad), said, “It is a significant milestone for the project and an indication that we are ahead of time in bringing the trains to Hyderabad.”

Subsequent to the rollout ceremony of the first train at the Hyundai-Rotem’s Changwon factory, it was shipped to India in April 2014 after successful completion of all factory acceptance tests.

The train cars were moved from Changwon to Masan Port, Korea and loaded into a ship.

The journey

After travelling for about two weeks by sea in Hyundai Glovis Ship, they arrived at Chennai port on May 9. After clearances, all the three train cars of first train of Hyderabad Metro Rail, were unloaded from the ship and were transported to Hyderabad by road. They were then moved through three individual trailers from Chennai to Hyderabad by road. All the cars reached here today.

The train cars are being unloaded on the depot track and later assembled to carry out the required testing.

The metro authorities expect to commence trial runs on the phase one stretch of 8 km shortly and operations early next year.