Bombardier celebrates delivery of first car to Delhi Metro. Photo: courtesy of Bombardier.
In a ceremony held at InnoTrans 2016 in Berlin, Bombardier Transportation celebrated the delivery of the first metro car to Delhi Metro from an order placed last year. The ceremony was attended by Benoît Cattin-Martel, president of Bombardier Transportation’s Asia Pacific region, who presented a commemorative metro car key to HS Anand, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd’s (DMRC) director of rolling stock.
Delhi Metro ordered an additional 162 BOMBARDIER MOVIA metro cars in 2015. The new trains will increase the number of DMRC’s existing fleet of BOMBARDIER MOVIA metros from 614 to 776 and make it one of the largest Bombardier metro fleets in the world.
“These new cars are being procured by Delhi Metro for services on its presently operational red, blue and yellow lines,” said Anand. “These cars will be put into service in a phased manner after the mandatory tests and trials. The addition of these cars will go a long way in providing safe and comfortable travel to our valued commuters”
The MOVIA metro vehicles are a six-car configuration, accommodating up to 1,740 passengers. Once configured into eight-car sets, the trains will carry as many as 2,400 passengers, providing a capacity increase on two of Delhi’s main metro lines that serve more than 50 percent of Delhi Metro’s average current ridership of approximately three million passengers a day.
Bombardier is Delhi Metro’s largest supplier of signaling systems and one of its largest suppliers of rolling stock with more than $1.2 billion worth of orders placed since 2007. Bombardier has delivered, or is in the process of delivering, signaling solutions for more than 120 track kilometers for Delhi Metro’s Lines 5 and 6 with extensions and Line 7.
Bombardier Transportation operates a railway vehicle manufacturing site and bogie assembly hall in Savli near Vadodara, Gujarat, and a propulsion systems manufacturing facility at Maneja. It also has a Rail Control Solutions Center for project delivery and product engineering, and an Information Services India hub near Gurgaon, Delhi NCR and an Engineering Center in Hyderabad.
“The high degree of localization executed in the project at Bombardier’s Savli and Maneja sites fulfils the requirements of the Indian government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign and Delhi Metro’s indigenous procurement plan that encourages local manufacturing,” stated Cattin-Martel.
“Our energy efficient trains have helped the city of Delhi improve mobility and manage pollution levels as well as provided effective public transport during the 2010 Commonwealth Games,” added Cattin-Martel. “Our vehicles have also contributed to Delhi Metro receiving UN carbon credits, a world’s first for a metro project.”
Photo: Benoit Cattin Martel and Harsh Dhingra from Bombardier Transportation present commemorative Metro key to HS Anand, DMRC director of rolling stock.