Kolkata Metro will get 40 new air-conditioned rakes, the first of which has been delivered to the public carrier, Metro Railway sources said here.
"Kolkata Metro has ordered new rakes from Integral Coach Factory (ICF) Perambur, Dalian and CRRC Zhuzhou of China," Metro spokesperson Indrani Banerjee said here.
The ICF Perambur-manufactured new air-conditioned rake with state-of-the-art features that has arrived in the city, will undergo trial runs before it embarks on passenger service before Durga Pujas in September, Banerjee said. The country's first metro railway system will get another new rake from ICF in September, which will be followed by phased arrivals of 38 more rakes. Apart from the air-conditioned rake that has already arrived and the other which is scheduled to come by September, another 14 have been ordered from ICF, Perambur, the spokesperson said. "The city metro will also start getting delivery of 14 new rakes manufactured by Dalian of China by the year-end," Banerjee said. Agencies