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The washing enactment statement has been completed wrong the installation and the way linking enactment was nether progress. The wide gauge way wrong the upcoming MEMU shed is being linked with the existing railway enactment adjacent for the MEMU rakes to participate the installation for maintenance. The full task is expected to beryllium completed by March 2026, the authoritative added.
A ₹60-crore installation being created by the Southern Railway successful Tiruchi exclusively for the attraction of Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) rakes is expected to beryllium acceptable by March.
Coming up connected a immense expanse of 60,000 sq. m. railway onshore adjacent the Manjathidal railway presumption on the Tiruchi-Thanjavur wide gauge section, the covered installation nether operation volition person overhead electrical arrangements wrong required for the attraction of MEMU rakes.
The Southern Railway Construction Organisation has been tasked with the project. The shed volition person 2 inspection pit lines, a catwalk pathway for inspection of the rakes, washing enactment arrangement, overhead electrical arrangement, and an administrative block, said a railway official.
This is the archetypal clip an exclusive installation for the attraction of MEMU rakes is being established successful Tiruchi. Nearly 80% of the work pertaining to operation of the 2 inspection pit lines and the administrative gathering has been completed. The magnitude of each pitline is astir 390 metres to accommodate 8 MEMU cars successful each 1 of them.
The washing enactment statement has been completed wrong the installation and the way linking enactment was nether progress. The wide gauge way wrong the upcoming MEMU shed is being linked with the existing railway enactment adjacent for the MEMU rakes to participate the installation for maintenance. The full task is expected to beryllium completed by March 2026, the authoritative added.
MEMU trains are operated successful abbreviated and mean region electrified routes successful the Southern Railway network. These trains successful Tiruchi Railway Division’s limits are operated connected the Villupuram-Puducherry; Mayiladuthurai-Salem; Villupuram-Tiruchi; Villupuram-Katpadi; Puducherry-Villupuram; Villupuram-Mayiladuthurai; Mayiladuthurai-Tiruvarur; Puducherry-Chennai Egmore and Salem-Mayiladuthurai electrified BG sections. The rakes of the MEMU trains would beryllium sent astatine specified clip duration for attraction astatine the caller installation erstwhile it becomes operational, the authoritative said.
