Lahore Metro (Pakistan)

Project information

Project description mageba scope Highlights & Facts The Orange Line of Lahore Metro is the mageba is supplying a broad variety of first metro line in Lahore city, Pakistan. RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings for the pro- mageba Products: Once completed, it will have 27 km of ject. Type: RESTON®SPHERICAL metro train facilities, with expected costs The load capacity of the bearings varies bearings of types KA, KE, of $1.65 billion. between 1,800 kN and 2,900 kN with the KEQ, KF The corridor will be capable of accom- largest bearing featuring a maximum lon- Features: ROBO®SLIDE sliding modating two trains running both up and gitudinal movement capacity of 100 mm. material, Tested at SismaLab, Italy down the track, ferrying up to 30,000 pas- Despite of the tight timetable mageba Installation: 2016–2017 sengers per hour and 250,000 passengers managed to deliver the high number of a day. bearings (2,918 pieces) in due course. The Structure: The capacity is planned to be increased up bearings were shipped in about 50 deliv- City: Lahore to 500,000 passengers a day by the year eries using air and sea freight, which re- Country: Pakistan of 2025. quired enormous logistical efforts. Type: Elevated railway In order to meet with the highest quality Built: 2016–2018 standards the bearings were exposed to Length: 24.3 km an intensive movement test in SismaLab Owner: The City of Lahore (Italy) and were audited by TüV Austria. Engineer: Nespak (National Engineering services, Pakistan) Contractor: Habib Construction Services

The first metro line of Pakistan is being built in the RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings before shipping in capital of the province of Punjab the factory One of the installed spherical bearings

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India

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