First consignment of Orange Line Metro Train arrives in Lahore Pakistan

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First consignment of Orange Line Metro Train arrives in Lahore
Pakistan
by Dawood Rehman | Published on October 2, 2017 (Edited October 2, 2017)

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LAHORE – The first consignment of Orange Line Metro Train, including three coaches and two engines, arrived in Lahore on Monday.

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According to a spokesman of Punjab Mass Transit Authority, the first Orange Line Metro Train will be launched on the 7th of this month.

Efforts are underway to complete the Orange Line Metro Train Project by December, he added.


During a recent briefing, Adviser to Chief Minister and Orange Line Metro Train Steering Committee Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassan said nearly 72 percent construction work of the project has been completed.

The contract of twelve stations of package-1 and fifteen stations of package-II have been assigned to a Chinese company.

The OLMT, being built as part of the Lahore Metro, is expected to transport up to 250,000 passengers a day.

The project, which is financed separately from CPEC, will be Pakistan’s first modern rail-based mass rapid transit system, and will be a fully automated and driverless system. It will be Lahore’s second rapid transit line, after the Lahore Metrobus, which was completed in 2013.


The Orange Line is the first of the three proposed rail lines of the proposed Lahore Metro. The line spans 27.1 km (16.8 mi). 25.4 km (15.8 mi) of the line is to be elevated, while 1.72 km (1.1 mi) km will be underground, and 0.7 km (0.4 mi) of track will be laid in the transition zone between elevated and underground sections.

So far, more than 50 people have died in road and other accidents around the construction sites since September, 2015. Several workers died in accidents at the makeshifts and construction sites.

 

[MBT 3000]

How much corruption

 

[mkiyani]

hope it completes soon and then all people will use it just like metro buss.. slow and steady build more and more..

 

[doppelgängerr]

No Images?

Is Lahore is equals to whole Pakistan? why not even locals buses for other cities?

 

[Kambojaric]

No Images?

Is Lahore is equals to whole Pakistan? why not even locals buses for other cities?

Although I personally do not like the orange train project (due to cost involved), the metro buses are important and are or have been built around Pakistan now. Multan has one, Pindi/Islamabad has one. Karachi and Peshawar are building at the moment. Multimillion cities need a basic transportation infrastructure, especially those that go above the ten million mark. PTI made fun of Lahore's metro bus but is building one itself now in Peshawar. I dont support any political party but the Punjab government has been investing in its infrastructure for some time now, and the other provinces rather than complaining need to up their game as well now (as they are).

 

[Baby Leone]

Sydney too received coaches from India for its metro.


Sydney Metro Receives First Indian Built Alstom Train
28 Sep 2017 ⋅ by TMRG ⋅ in Other ⋅ 5 Comments
Sydney Metro has announced the delivery of the first Alstom Metropolis trainset to its Rouse Hill Depot on the 36 km Northwest Line. The 6-coach train was built at Alstom’s Sri City (Andhra Pradesh) facility in India and is part of a 22 trainset & signalling system order placed under a €280 million contract in September 2014.

The new train is capable of being operated automatically through the Automatic Train Protection and Automatic Train Operation (ATP/ATO) modes with the help of Alstom’s Urbalis 400 communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling solution. As per Alstom’s brochure, the trainsets feature three double doors per car side, two multi-purpose areas per for prams, luggage and bicycles and two wheelchairs spaces per car. The air-conditioned trainsets have 38 surveillance cameras per train, emergency intercoms, 2 PID (passenger information display) systems per vestibule, 6 live electronic route-maps per car and an exterior front display of the train’s destination.

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The production and export of these metro coaches is a boost to the Government of India’s “Make in India” campaign which aims at turning the country into a global manufacturing destination. Last year in February, Bombardier from its Savli (Gujarat) plant began exporting trainsets to fulfill a 75 train x 6 coach order for Queensland’s new South East rail network.

Sydney Metro plans to prepare for tests over the next few months and hopes to begin operations on the 36 km Stage 1 of the line in the first half of 2019. The line (see map) includes 15 km of tunnels and 4 km of elevated railway through eight new stations, between Cudgegong Road and Epping, and five upgraded stations, between Epping and Chatswood, on the existing commuter line.

For more updates, check out the Home Page of The Metro Rail Guy!

http://themetrorailguy.com/2017/09/28/sydney-metro-receives-first-indian-built-alstom-train/

Sydney receives first consignment of metro train made in India.



this too low looking at 1 crore + population of Lahore. I hope the numbers will increase.

what it has to do with the topic?

why you indians are in so much complex?

 

[Cyberian]

Masha'Allah. Mubarrak to everyone in Pakistan.

 

[Captain77W]

The trains for the Orange line are used as trams around the world. The Lahore Metro should have been a private adventure with the Government only providing land and a start up investment similar to what Hong Kong did in the 70s with the MTR

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

No Images?

Is Lahore is equals to whole Pakistan? why not even locals buses for other cities?

Most cities have buses and public transport.

 

[livingdead]

good... every city should have efficient public transport... and a city like lahore and karachi deserve metro.
once you get it operational in one city you can replicate in other cities