Even with wind speed during Cyclone Amphan reaching 133 kmph around Dum Dum, Metro Railway ensured that none of its rakes parked at the Noapara car shed suffered any damage, by deploying proactive precautionary measures. […]
The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) and ITD Cementation, executing the East-West Metro project, joined KMDA to clean up the Amphan-ravaged Subhas Sarobar on Sunday. Apart from the 40-acre water body, the 140-acre complex has […]
Construction of the New Garia-Airport Metro stretch has resumed following the government orders regarding relaxation during the lockdown. The work resumed at Hemanta Mukherjee (Ruby Hospital) station as the 5km stretch between New Garia and […]
Metro Railway Kolkata has resumed work on the stretch between Noapara and the city airport that is scheduled to be commissioned sometime in 2021. The Noapara- Airport link is crucial as it will not only […]
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited have been granted permission to resume work on the New Garia-Airport Metro link and East-West Metro, respectively by Calcutta Municipal Corporation over the past week. […]
To ensure strict adherence to social distancing norms, the Kolkata Metro is planning to “drastically” reduce the number of passengers in its trains once it resumes operations, Kolkata metro railway spokesperson Indrani Banerjee said yesterday […]
East-West Metro services are likely to be extended till Phoolbagan by May, said Metro Railway general manager Manoj Joshi after a two-hour visit to the underground station yesterday (Wednesday, 26th February 2020) morning. The 16.5km […]
East-West Metro’s Mahakaran station in the middle of Dalhousie Square is now structurally complete. The station, starting at 24m (equivalent to eight-storey building) below the green patch next to Laldighi, is expected to witness very […]
Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), carried out tests in the stretch between Salt Lake Stadium and Phoolbagan on Wednesday evening to check whether the third rails inside the tunnels are properly aligned with the Third […]
East-West Metro’s tunnelling work resumed from Bowbazar on Tuesday (18th February 2020), more than five months after one of the tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) hit an aquifer and triggered subsidence in the congested area. Around 700 […]
After a crowded weekend, truncated services of East-West Metro saw a thinner crowd on the first day of the week. While the number of joyriders, who had kept trains full since the commencement of the […]
Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal inaugurated and flagged off the Phase I of East West Metro corridor of Kolkata Metro yesterday, connecting Salt Lake Sector V and Salt Lake Stadium and dedicated […]
Railway Minister Shri Piyush Goyal will inaugurate India’s first ever underwater metro train in Kolkata today at 5 Pm. The first phase of the East West Metro corridor will connect Sector V with Salt Lake […]
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed the resumption of tunnel-boring work for the city’s East-West Metro corridor, which had come to a halt after an aquifer burst in August last year leading to severe […]
East-West Metro’s Phoolbagan station is now ready for an inspection by the commissioner of railway safety (CRS), which is likely to be carried out sometime this month. The 1 km Phoolbagan stretch will be added […]