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First set of metro train being shifted to Dhaka’s Diabari depot
Coaches of metro trains are being shifted to Dhaka s Diabari depot on April 22, 2021. Photo: Collected
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The first set of metro train is being transported to the metro rail depot in Dhaka s Diabari area since this morning.
The process to unload the coaches of the train from the barges started around 8:00am, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.
The minister was holding a views-exchange meeting with the staff of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and Roads and Highways Department (Gopalganj zone). He joined the meeting virtually from his residence.
Overall progress of metro-rail construction reaches 61.49pc: Quader
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DHAKA, April 22, 2021 (BSS) – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the overall progress of the country’s first metro-rail construction work stands at 61.49 percent.
“Overall progress of the metro-rail construction work reached 61.49 percent. The physical progress of the first phase construction of the metro-rail from Uttara to Agargaon is 83.52 percent,” he told a regular press conference at his official residence here.
Quader said combined progress of electrical and mechanical system and procurement of rolling stock (rail coaches) and depot equipment is 52.22 percent.
The first elevated metro-rail will have 24 sets of 144 coaches and each set will have six coaches, he said.
First Set of Metro Trains: 3 of 6 coaches shifted to Diabari depot
Three coaches like this one were taken to the metro rail depot in the capital’s Diabari yesterday. Photo: Collected Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
Three coaches, out of six of the first set of metro trains, have been shifted to the metro rail depot in Dhaka s Diabari yesterday.
The next three coaches are expected to be shifted today, ABM Arifur Rahman, a project manager of Mass Rapid Transit Line or MRT-6, told The Daily Star. They [coaches] were kept inside the workshop s inspection area. Apart from the individual test of the coaches, integrated test would be carried out, he added.
First Metro coach installed on railway track
First Metro coach installed on railway track
The first coach of metro train has been installed on the railway track of the metro rail depot at capital’s Diabari.
The coach was installed in a systemetic way around 12:05pm on Thursday.
Earlier, the coach was taken to Diabari depot in the morning.
Four coaches are to be taken to the depot on Thursday. The rest two coaches are likely to be taken on Friday.
The first set of six coaches of metro rail arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday.
A barge carrying two, out of six coaches, arrived at the newly-built jetty of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) in the river Turag at Uttara in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.