According to officials, Delhi Metro has increased the operating speed of Metro trains on the Airport Express Line to 120 kmph as of Sunday.
According to them, the entire trip from New Delhi station to the recently constructed Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 station will take around 21 minutes. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode the metro to the brand-new Dwarka Sector-25 station.
“The train he travelled in moved at 120 kmph, so that was in a way a formal start of services with enhanced speed on the Airport Express Line whose extension was also inaugurated by the PM today,” a senior DMRC official told PTI.
Modi later on Sunday also inaugurated the first phase of YashoBhoomi, the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) in Dwarka. The train he travelled in moved at 120 kmph, so that was in a way a formal start of services with enhanced speed on the Airport Express Line whose extension was also inaugurated by the PM today,” a senior DMRC official told PTI.
Modi later on Sunday also inaugurated the first phase of YashoBhoomi, the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) in Dwarka.
On Sunday Modi inaugurated first phase of Yashobhoomi, Epo Centre and India International Convention in Dwarka.
The travel time between New Delhi and Dwarka Sector 21 was nearly 22 minutes which now reduced to 19 minutes while time between New Delhi and terminal 3 of Delhi Airport is 15 minutes which was 18 minutes earlier.
“This “historic increase” in speed of trains on India’s fastest metro corridor gradually from 90 kmph to 120 kmph has been made possible by “meticulous planning and time-bound implementation by DMRC’s engineers in consultation with a number of other government agencies and domain experts,” the DMRC had earlier said.
“The extension of Delhi Metro’s Airport Express Line from Dwarka Sector 21 to Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 became operational from 3 pm onwards on September 17. Delhi Metro had increased the operational speed of its trains on the Airport Express Line from 90 kmph to 100 kmph on March 22 this year,” the officials said.
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