Providers alongside the East-West hall of Metro Railway, Kolkata, will stay suspended for 4 days from Thursday, for communication trial, the Metro stated in a press release on Wednesday.
The trial shall be held because the tunnelling work between Esplanade and Sealdah stations has been accomplished.
The 4-day suspension would be the first of the 2 back-to-back phases with the second scheduled from February 20 to 23, the assertion stated.
Throughout that interval, practice providers alongside the complete Inexperienced Line from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector V won’t be out there to facilitate full-proof testing of the state-of-the-art Communication-based Practice Management system.
“On profitable completion of tunnelling work between Esplanade and Sealdah stations, Metro Railway Kolkata goes to grant full site visitors block in two spells ranging from tomorrow and once more from February 20 to 23 for testing of Communication Primarily based Practice Management (CBTC) System on the complete Inexperienced Line Metro hall from Howrah Maidan to Salt Lake Sector-V,” the assertion learn.
In Metro Railway terminology, ‘site visitors block’ means suspension of service of trains.
At present, metro providers can be found alongside the hall from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade and from Sealdah to Sector-V.
Attributable to cave-in throughout tunnelling work at Bowbazar alongside the Esplanade-Sealdah stretch and seepage of underground water in September 2019 because the boring machine hit an aquifer and a minimum of two extra comparable incidents in subsequent years, providers couldn’t begin alongside the two.5-km-long Esplanade-Sealdah stretch of the 16.6-km-long East-West hall.
Trains now run alongside two disjointed sections from Sector-V to Sealdah and from Esplanade to Howrah Maidan.
