President of the French Senate Gérard Larcher visited the France-invested Nhon-Hanoi station urban railway line in Hanoi on December 9 as part of his visit to Vietnam.
Sunday, January 24, 2021, 16:46 GMT+7
A train of metro line 3 is pictured running through Ho Tung Mau Street in Hanoi during a test run on January 23, 2020. Photo: Pham Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Public visitors in Hanoi got the first experience of the city’s metro line 3, which connects Nhon Terminal and Hanoi Train Station, on Saturday.
A train of Metro Line 3, which connects Nhon terminal and the Hanoi Train Station, is put through a test run on January 22, 2020 in this supplied video.
Earlier, it was announced that the metro train would be available for general public viewing between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm this Saturday and Sunday.
2nd excavator for Hanoi metro construction arrives
By Dat Nguyen January 12, 2021 | 11:24 am GMT+7
The second tunnel boring machine of the Nhon-Hanoi Railway Station metro section arrives in the northern city of Hai Phong on January 11, 2020. Photo courtesy of the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board.
The second tunnel boring machine required for the construction of Hanoi’s second metro line has arrived from Germany and will be assembled in the next three months.
It has landed in a Hai Phong City port and will be taken to Hanoi this month for drilling for the Nhon-Hanoi Railway Station metro line.
The machine, manufactured by German firm Herrenkechtm, is more than 100 meters long and weighs over 850 tons. It can drill 10 meters of tunnel per day.