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 […]
The ongoing Metro railway projects in Kolkata have been allotted a budgetary grant of Rs 1,542 crore for fiscal 2020-21, an official said. The East-West Metro corridor, the first phase of which is scheduled to […]
After missing several deadlines, the much-awaited East West Metro Railway is now slated to be inaugurated on February 13 over a 5 km truncated route connecting the city’s tech hub of Salt Lake Sector V […]
With increasing use of newer trains, Metro Railway, Kolkata is planning to retire the last of the first batch of non-AC rakes that had joined the fleet 33 years ago. The new rakes supplied by […]
Metro Railway, Kolakata is inching closer to completion of the link from Noapara to Dakshineswar. Expected to be commissioned around mid-2020, the work on the 4km stretch from Noapara to Dakshineswar started several years ago, […]
The Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the flyover that the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) recently proposed to build from the Chingrighata crossing on E M Bypass to New […]