NEW DEHLI, 5 April, 2021 (TON): The Delhi Metro is undertaking the conversion of its remaining fleet of six coach trains into eight coach trains by adding 120 additional coaches on routes such as Red, Yellow and Blue Line of the metro network.

The conversion is expected to be completed by the end of this year after which all the trains running on these Lines will be eight coaches only, a senior DMRC official said, adding that by the end of this month, the process of converting all twelve six coach trains on Yellow Line into eight coaches will be completed thereby taking the total number of eight coach trains on this line to 64.

He said, remaining nine six coach trains on Blue Line and thirty nine six coach trains on Red Line will be converted into eight coach trains by the end of this year taking the total number of trains on these lines to 74 and 39 respectively.

Out of these 120 coaches, 40 coaches have been procured from M/s Bombardier and 80 coaches from Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). “This activity is being carried out to increase the carrying capacity of the three main corridors of the Delhi Metro i.e. Red (Line-1), Blue (Line-3/4) and Yellow (Line-2) Lines which contribute to almost 40-50 per cent of passenger utilization every day. It is noteworthy to mention that these Lines which were initially made operational under Phase-I were built on Broad Gauge having provision of running trains up to eight-coach formation,” he added.