Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) successfully conducted a trial run of the first trainset delivered by Alstom for Mumbai’s Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro line 3 (Aqua Line). It is the city’s first metro project that can run driverless and the trains to have 75% motorization making operations efficient. This is also the city’s first fully underground metro project.
The first metro trainset was flagged off for trial runs by Honorable Chief Minister, Maharastra Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM, Maharastra Devendra Fadnavis, along with Ashwini Bhide, Managing Director, MMRC. The metro trainset ran a 3 km stretch from Sariput Nagar, Aarey to Marol Naka for the inaugural trial run.
Alstom is indigenously designing, manufacturing, and commissioning 31 lightweights, fully furnished modern passenger train sets of 8 cars each (248 metro cars) for the 33.5-km long underground stretch of Mumbai Metro Line 3. This is the biggest rolling stock contract in India’s urban mobility sector for the company, valued at approximately €315 million. Making it easy travel for Mumbaikars, these metro trains are estimated to reduce 35% of overall traffic and help in reducing air & noise pollution.
These trains are built at one of Alstom’s largest urban Rolling Stock manufacturing units in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh. This world-class facility has an annual manufacturing capacity of 480 cars, with a strong portfolio of delivering to major Indian and international metro projects.
With a proven track record, low lifecycle costs and a keen focus on passenger experience, Alstom’s Metropolis trainsets set the standard in energy-efficient and safe operations. Themed on ‘Dynamic Fluidism’ that takes inspiration from the city, these trains prioritize high interior density layout to maximize space efficiency, enabling each trainset to carry 3,000 passengers per trip. It offers a unique design, and a wide range of configurations and ensures the highest performance due to the perfect combination of proven and reliable components and innovations. These metro trains are a testament to the company’s superior eco-design principle, with 96% of the mass of materials and components used is recyclable, and 99% recoverable.
Mumbai Metro Line 3 will connect the Cuffe Parade business district in the extreme south of the city to SEEPZ in the north-central with 26 underground and one street-level station. Alstom is also equipping this line with the latest generation of CBTC signalling technology (Urbalis 400). This is Alstom’s proprietary technology that results in increasing average capacity by 30% in manned services and unattended train operations (UTO) and helps reduce energy consumption by 30%.
