September 2016
VOLUME-I ISSUE-9
The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Puratchi Thalaivi Selvi J JAYALALITHAA inaugurated Airport – Little Mount Metro Rail Passenger Service and declared open the Metro Rail Stations at Airport, Meenambakkam, Nanganallur Road, Guindy, Little Mount and St. Thomas Mount
Chairman
Thiru Rajiv Gauba, I.A.S.,
Secretary Ministry of Urban Development Government of India
The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Puratchi Thalaivi Selvi J JAYALALITHAA inaugurated Airport – Little Mount Metro Rail Passenger Service and declared open the Metro Rail Stations at Airport, Meenambakkam, Nanganallur Road, Guindy, Little Mount and St. Thomas Mount through video conferencing in the presence of Thiru M VENKAIAH NAIDU, Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting and Thiru Pon. RADHAKRISHNAN, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping on 21.09.16 through Video Conferencing from Secretariat.
Thiru M VENKAIAH NAIDU,Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing & U r b a n P o v e r t y A l l e v i a t i o n a n d I n f o r m a t i o n & B r o a d c a s t i n g a n d Thiru Pon. RADHAKRISHNAN, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Road Transport, www.chennaimetrorail.org Highways and Shipping flagged off the Metro Train from Airport Metro Station. Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 02
Inauguration of Phase I Stage 1A Elevated Corridor
“Reform, Perform & Transform” Thiru M VENKAIAH NAIDU, Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting and Thiru Pon. RADHAKRISHNAN, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping on 21.09.16 visited the Airport Metro Station along with Thiru Pankaj Kumar Bansal, MD CMRL explained the various features of the Airport Metro Station. Thiru M VENKAIAH NAIDU, Hon'ble Union Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting delivered a speech during the inauguration at the Airport Metro Station regarding the various accomplishments of the Tamil Nadu Government and wished success to Chennai Metro Rail in speedy completion of the project. Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 03
Stage 1 A Elevated Stations - Little Mount to Airport Metro Station
Little Mount Metro Station
Guindy Metro Station
Nanganallur Road Station Meenambakkam Station
Airport Metro Station Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 04
UndergroundCommissioner Sections of Metro & Railway Tunneling Safety Work (CMRS) Progress inspection as on 31.08.2016 conducted between Alandur and St Thomas Mount
Thiru Sudarson Nayak, Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS), South Eastern Circle along with Thiru E. Srinivas, Dy. CRS, S&T/Bangalore and Thiru Uttam Prakash, Dy. CRS/Mechanical, Lucknow had carried out inspection from Alandur to St Thomas Mount of Corridor II in the last week of September 2016.
During the inspection, several parameters were inspected namely the sharpest vertical curve, sharpest horizontal curve of the section, gradient of track, Walkway clearances and width of walkway, Scissors crossover laid ahead of St.Thomas Mount, Horizontal and vertical clearances at St.Thomas Mount platform were checked with respect to the Schedule and Dimensions of Standard Gauge and observed all dimensions are well within the limits specified. An inspection of Diesel Shunting Locomotive and Rolling Stock was also conducted at Koyambedu Depot. Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 05
Underground Sections & Tunneling Work Progress as on 31.09.2016
Tunnelling Completed Percentage Package TBM From To length in mtr in mtr completed UAA 01 TBM 1 Washermenpet Metro Egmore Metro 4445 4408 99.2 TBM 2 Washermenpet Metro Egmore Metro 4445 4106 92.4 TBM 3 May Day Park Central Metro 2080 2080 100 UAA 02 TBM 1 May Day Park AG-DMS 3616 1967 54.4 TBM 2 May Day Park AG-DMS 3616 1756 48.56 UAA 03 Saidapet Metro AG-DMS 5736 5736 100 UAA 04 Egmore Metro Shenoy Nagar 6776 6776 100 UAA 05 Shenoy Nagar Thirumangalam 5594 5594 100 UAA 08 Washermenpet Korukkupet 2000 - 0 Total 38308 32423 84.64
Track Progress as on 31/08/2016 (ATA-01)
CORRIDOR-I: Track work completed on entire elevated section between Saidapet Ramp and Airport for the length of 18695m with 23 turnouts and RDSO and CMRS inspection were completed for passenger operation.
CORRIDOR-II: Track work completed on entire elevated section between Thirumangalam ramp and St. Thomas Mount for length of 24788m with 27 turnouts. In the underground section between Thirumangalam ramp and Chennai Central, out of 19888m, Track work completed for the length of 14579m with 5 turnouts from Thirumangalam Ramp to Nehru Park in downline. In up line, track work completed from Thirumangalam ramp to Pachaiyappas College and Kilpauk to Nehru Park. Balance track work in progress between Pachaiyappa’s College and Kilpauk
DEPOT : Track work completed for entire depot length of 14606m with 41 turnouts. Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 0604
Rolling Stock Work Progress as on 30.09.2016
Trains delivered to depot: Trains under manufacturing at Sricity: A total of 37 trains including the 9 trains of import category, have ¯ Trains 38 to 42 are under various stages of production been delivered to CMRL Koyambedu Depot. and testing, as per the schedule, at Alstom factory, Sri City. Trains commissioned and conditionally accepted by CMRL: ¯ Nine trains have been issued with completion certificate and seven Employee of the Month Award among these nine trains have been conditionally accepted by CMRL September 2016 in June 2015. Two additional trains have been conditionally accepted in May and June 2016. Five additional trains have been conditionally accepted in September 2016. ¯ The total accepted 14 trains are put under revenue service of Stage- 1 and Stage – 1A sections of CMRL. Maintenance activities on these 14 trains are carried out by CMRL Rolling Stock Maintenance Team and the warranty obligation is done by the contractor.
Trains under testing at CMRL facility: Thiru P. Vishnu, All other trains delivered to CMRL are under various stages of JE/SC/TO testing and commissioning in CMRL depot and mainline. ¯ Thiru P. Vishnu, JE/SC/TO has been nominated as the “Employee of the Month” of Sep 2016, for Maintenance of CMRL trains: valuable contributions mentioned below. ¯ Preventive maintenance activities on these 14 trains are ¯ He has coordinated for the NSD installation work in carried out by CMRL Rolling Stock Maintenance Team and the mainline with coordination of Operations and corrective maintenance is done by the contractor. Electrical Department. ¯ Preventive maintenance activities include 72 hrs inspection, ¯ He followed up to get 5 trains ready for Stage-1A. monthly maintenance, quarterly maintenance, half yearly ¯ ECP closure tracking and removing hurdles for maintenance and annual maintenance. implementation. ¯ RE-railing equipment mock-up was successfully completed ¯ ECP document review and verification. on 26th Sep 2016. During the mock up, functioning and working ¯ Following up the corrective maintenance activities of Re-railing equipment such as Power packs, Hydraulic Jacks, with Alstom Spreader, cutter, Air-bags, etc. are checked for proper functioning. Chennai Metro Rail | News Letter 070406
Activities
Welcome to the CMRL Family Shuttle Services from Airport Metro Station from 1st October 2016. 1 Thiru V. Chandramowuli Advisor Metro Water In an endeavor to cater to the Chennai 2 Tmt. Tamil Mozhi Amuthu PRO public better to travel from Airport Metro 3 Thiru Govindarajan.R AEE (E) Station to the Chennai Airport. Shuttle car 4 Thiru V. Shankar Advisor Signal services are being provided from 01.10.16 from 5 Selvi D. Almas Banu Assistant Manager (Legal) Airport Metro Station. 6 Thiru N. Rajkumar Assistant Manager (Legal) Initially 4 Nos of Shuttle services will be 7 Thiru V.I. Senthil Sr. Site Engineer made available from 01.10.16 at an interval of 8 Thiru S. Ulaganathan every 15 mins from CMRL Airport Metro Station 9 Thiru M. Rajesh Kannan free of cost to passengers. 10 Thiru P. Rajakumar The Shuttle services are being implemented 11 Thiru V. Balasubramani Site Engineer from Airport Metro Station at 10.00 am on 12 Thiru K. Yogambal 01.10.16. 13 Selvi S. Fathima 14 Thiru M. Chella Pandian
15 Thiru R. Vijaya Basker Resident Engineer 16 Thiru A. Muniswamy 17 Thiru J. Arun
18 Thiru K. Paari Rajan Site Engineer 19 Tmt R. Archana 20 Thiru R. Prabhu
Editor Tmt. Tamil Mozhi Amuthu, PRO
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