Dhaka metro rail to carry passengers from Victory Day 2022
The Dhaka metro train is seen during a performance test on Sunday, December 12, 2021 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Publish : 11 Dec 2021, 05:38 PMUpdate : 13 Feb 2022, 06:02 PM
The country’s first ever metro train will begin carrying passengers in the capital on Victory Day next year.
MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, shared the information with the media on Sunday after the train reached Agargaon from Uttara for the first time during a performance test.
The train reached the Agargaon station around 10:45am and stayed there for some 45 minutes before returning to Uttara’s Diabari depot.
The train had travelled to Mirpur 10 from Uttara at 100kmph and from there to Agargaon at 15-25mkph.
On August 29, the metro train made its first official performance test atop the viaducts from the Diabari depot to the Mirpur 12 transit service. The second performance test was done on November 29 between Uttara and Mirpur 10 among the five stations.
The overall progress of the construction work of the 21.26-kilometre elevated metro rail service from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway Station currently stands at over 72%.
Bangladesh ordered 24 sets of trains from Japan’s Kawasaki-Mitsubishi consortium. Each set consists of two engines on either side and four carriages.
The government had initially set December 2021 as the deadline for the Uttara-Agargaon section, but the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic significantly delayed work on the rail line.
Meanwhile, the installation of roof sheets on Uttara North, Uttara Centre, Uttara South, Pallabi, Mirpur 11, Mirpur 10 and Agargaon stations have been completed, and work is going on to set up roof sheets on Kazipara and Shewrapara stations.
Construction work on Bijoy Sarani, Farmgate, Karwan Bazar stations is being implemented fast, say officials.
The metro rail is expected to carry 60,000 passengers per hour by travelling the entire 21.26km route from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway Station in less than 40 minutes.
Dhaka metro rail to carry passengers from Victory Day 2022
The country’s first ever metro train will begin carrying passengers in the capital on Victory Day next year.
MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, shared the information with the media on Sunday after the train reached Agargaon from Uttara for the first time during a performance test.
The train reached the Agargaon station around 10:45am and stayed there for some 45 minutes before returning to Uttara’s Diabari depot.
The train had travelled to Mirpur 10 from Uttara at 100kmph and from there to Agargaon at 15-25mkph.
On August 29, the metro train made its first official performance test atop the viaducts from the Diabari depot to the Mirpur 12 transit service. The second performance test was done on November 29 between Uttara and Mirpur 10 among the five stations.
The overall progress of the construction work of the 21.26-kilometre elevated metro rail service from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway Station currently stands at over 72%.
Bangladesh ordered 24 sets of trains from Japan’s Kawasaki-Mitsubishi consortium. Each set consists of two engines on either side and four carriages.
The government had initially set December 2021 as the deadline for the Uttara-Agargaon section, but the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic significantly delayed work on the rail line.
Meanwhile, the installation of roof sheets on Uttara North, Uttara Centre, Uttara South, Pallabi, Mirpur 11, Mirpur 10 and Agargaon stations have been completed, and work is going on to set up roof sheets on Kazipara and Shewrapara stations.
Construction work on Bijoy Sarani, Farmgate, Karwan Bazar stations is being implemented fast, say officials.
The metro rail is expected to carry 60,000 passengers per hour by travelling the entire 21.26km route from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway Station in less than 40 minutes.
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