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Noida: There will be a different ticketing system for soon-to-be-made operational Aqua Line . This line will also have a different security set-up as well. Commuters will not be able to make use of their Delhi Metro card while traveling on this line. Besides this, there will be no interchange between the Sector 71 Station on the Aqua Line as well as Sector 52 station on the Blue Line extension in Noida. This arrangement will stay put with no change in the near future. Officials at Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) managing the  29.7km Aqua Line strongly feel that the interchange between the Aqua and Blue lines will not be a smooth affair. More so once the Aqua Line is open to the public. As per latest news, tickets issued for Aqua Line by NMRC will not be valid for commuting on Blue Line. This will true for those traveling on Blue Line too. This clearly means that those traveling to Delhi to Greater Noida will have to purchase different tickets for both the lines. Not just a t...

Noida: The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) extended metro train trial run from depot station to Alpha-II station from Friday. One month after the first test run of the Aqua metro line on the Noida-Greater Noida corridor, another test was held on Friday, this time the train travelling till Alpha-II station from the depot metro station. The four-coach test train covered nearly 2.5km at a speed of 35 km per hour during the ‘internal’ trial. It was the first time that the train has been tested outside the depot yard, where trials were being conducted since January 2. “On Friday afternoon, the train travelled from the depot (yard) and crossed three stations including depot station, Delta-I station and Alpha-II station before it returned to the depot. All went well with the extended trial. In the next few days, we will be ready to take the train further along the track,” said P. D Upadhyay, General Manager (Finance). According to NMRC official, once they receive c...

Noida: The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) extended metro train trial run from depot station to Alpha-II station from Friday. One month after the first test run of the Aqua metro line on the Noida-Greater Noida corridor, another test was held on Friday, this time the train travelling till Alpha-II station from the depot metro station. The four-coach test train covered nearly 2.5km at a speed of 35 km per hour during the ‘internal’ trial. It was the first time that the train has been tested outside the depot yard, where trials were being conducted since January 2. “On Friday afternoon, the train travelled from the depot (yard) and crossed three stations including depot station, Delta-I station and Alpha-II station before it returned to the depot. All went well with the extended trial. In the next few days, we will be ready to take the train further along the track,” said P. D Upadhyay, General Manager (Finance). According to NMRC official, once they receive c...

Noida: The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) received first train for the Noida-Greater Noida Metro Aqua line which reached the Greater Noida depot on Thursday. According to NMRC Officials, the four-coach train will be formally unveiled for a first look on December 18, 2017 by the Managing Directors of NMRC, Alok Tandon. DMRC Chief Mangu Singh will also present in inauguration ceremony. First trials for the corridor are expected to start from the end of the month. The first train of the 29.7 km Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor was dispatched from CRRC Nanjing , China for Mundra port in Gujarat on November 2, 2017 and from there, the train was rolled out by road to the Greater Noida depot. P D Upadhyay, General Manager (Finance) and Spokesperson for Noida Metro Rail Corporation said, “The train arrived at 5am on Thursday at the depot. It will now be checked and examined for its fittings and any damages to body during transit, after which it will be set aside for...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) today erected the last girder of the Noida – Greater Noida Corridor in the presence of Dr. Mangu Singh, MD/ DMRC, Shri Alok Tandon, MD / NMRC and CEO Noida Authority and other senior DMRC and NMRC officials. With the erection of this Girder, the viaduct of this approx. 30 km long corridor has been completed. The Civil Work on this corridor began in May 2015 and the first girder was launched in December 2015 and within a span of 22 months DMRC has erected a total of 2830 Girders (2035 U- Girders and 795 I – Girders). This last U- girder was launched today between Sector 143 and Sector 144 stations of the corridor. DMRC had successfully executed the task of erecting 200 U-Girders on the Noida – Greater Noida corridor in the month of May 2016. . This is the maximum number of U-girders ever launched in any Metro corridor in India within a month . DMRC used six special trailers to transport the girders and six special cran...

Ghaziabad: Nearly a week after the additional chief secretary announced that the state government was contemplating a change in funding pattern of 9.41km metro project, the principal secretary on Friday said that the old pattern would be followed. Though 9.41km metro project is presently in the making, lack of funds could be a major stumbling block. Mukul Singhal, principal secretary (housing), on Friday, visited Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) headquarters and said that the old funding pattern, with the cost being shared by different UP departments, will be continued to fund the 9.41km metro project. “The funding pattern will remain the same and different UP agencies such as Avas Vikas, UP state industrial development corporation, municipal corporation and GDA will contribute their share. I don’t have any knowledge about the new pattern as told by the additional chief secretary. The Metro project will not run into a funds cruch, as the departments will make their paym...