Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRCL) has completed the first trial run on the 2.63km Sealdah–Esplanade stretch through the westbound tunnel of Kolkata Metro’s Green Line in West Bengal, India.
The trial run was inaugurated by KMRCL chairman and Metro Railway general manager Uday Kumar Reddy, and other senior officers of KMRCL and Metro Railway.
The trial rake started at Sealdah Metro station and reached Esplanade Metro station.
The general manager held a meeting with the officers of Metro Railway and KMRCL after the trial run at Esplanade Metro station and congratulated all for this successful trial run.
Once commissioned, the Sealdah–Esplanade stretch is expected to provide an advanced transport system for the people of Kolkata and its suburbs.
It allows people to reach different parts of Kolkata and nearby areas from Sealdah and Howrah.
The Howrah-Sealdah Metro station is a part of Kolkata Metro’s Green Line, known as East-West Metro, and offers services in two parts, Green Line-1 and Green Line-2.
Green Line-1 runs between Salt Lake Sector V and Sealdah; Green Line-2 between Esplanade and Howrah Maidan.
The Kolkata Metro conducted the first successful trial run on the Sealdah–Esplanade stretches through a west-bound tunnel, which has only one station, Bowbazar.
The East-West link is expected to ease travel from Ranaghat, Bongaon, New Garia, Dum Dum, and Salt Lake to Howrah station through Sealdah.
It enables passengers disembarking Shatabdi, and Vande Bharat Express trains at Howrah to reach Ranaghat, Bongaon, New Garia, Dum Dum, and Salt Lake safely and economically.
