BEML Delivers India's First Standard Gauge Metro Car
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BANGALORE, Sep 11 (PTI): Bharat Earth Movers Limited on Friday achieved a milestone with the manufacture and delivery of India's first standard gauge metro car and the nation's first aluminium 80-tonne wagon.
The Broad Gauge Metro train is a four car formation, comprising two driving trailer cars and two motor cars with a capacity to carry 1,506 passengers.
The air-conditioned cars have been designed and manufactured to meet global standards with regard to passenger comfort and safety, are corrosion resistant and have an aesthetic exterior with a stainless steel car body and fire retardant GFRP interior panels, BEML said.
The cars have electrically automated passenger doors to ensure passenger safety.
BEML has bagged a Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) order worth Rs 1,672.5 crore for the supply of 150 metro cars. The first set is expected to be delivered by October 2010 for test purposes.
The aluminium wagon of 80 tonne capacity with bottom discharge are durable, capable of carrying larger loads and require less maintenance.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa symbolically handed over the Metro Car to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC) Managing Director E Sreedharan at a function here. The 80 ton aluminium wagon was handed over by the Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa to NALCO CMD C R Pradhan.