Lucknow: Lucknow Metro on Wednesday received the seventh set of Metro train at its Transport Nagar depot.
The trains, which are being manufactured by Alstom Transport at their manufacturing plant in Sri City (Andhra Pradesh), are transported through special trailers by road with pilot vehicles in the front & the rear.
This set of Metro train was dispatched for Lucknow on 31st August, 2017 from Sri City. Each coach (car) is loaded on a special trailer having 64 wheels. A 180 tonne crane is used to unload 40 tonne car using a special spreader.
All necessary trials of this train have already been conducted at the manufacturing plant. Other dynamic trials will now be done in the Transport Nagar Metro Depot.
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