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Nearly 10 months aft the Yellow Line was opened to the nationalist successful August 2025, and amid the gradual induction of rolling stock, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) volition induct 2 further trainsets from Wednesday.
The determination volition summation the full fig of trains operating connected the corridor to 10. The Yellow Line connects R.V. Road and Bommasandra and has witnessed increasing ridership since its launch. However, the gait of bid induction has remained slow, resulting successful overcrowded trains and inconvenience to commuters connected the corridor.
In a merchandise connected Tuesday, the BMRCL stated that the induction of the further trainsets would alteration much predominant services, peculiarly during highest hours erstwhile rider request is high.
Revised schedule
With the revised schedule, trains connected the Yellow Line volition tally astatine seven-minute intervals during highest hours connected weekdays, an betterment from the existent nine-minute frequency. During non-peak hours from Monday to Friday, trains volition run each 10 minutes alternatively of the existing 14-minute interval.
For play commuters, the BMRCL has announced that trains would tally astatine a azygous frequence of 10 minutes passim Saturdays and Sundays. The corp said that the enhanced work signifier is expected to supply a smoother question acquisition and assistance accommodate expanding rider numbers connected the corridor.
The BMRCL clarified that determination would beryllium nary alteration successful the timings of the archetypal and past trains departing from the terminal stations of R.V. Road and Bommasandra. The existing operating hours volition proceed to stay successful unit passim the week.
The revised docket volition travel into effect from Wednesday.
Trains underwent a 20-day testing
The ninth and tenth trainsets inducted into the Yellow Line were dispatched from Kolkata-based Titagarh Rail Systems Limited successful precocious April and aboriginal May. Following their accomplishment successful Bengaluru, the trains underwent a 20-day investigating and commissioning process earlier being cleared for rider operations, officials said.
The Yellow Line, 1 of Bengaluru’s cardinal metro corridors, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected August 10, 2025, and opened to the nationalist the pursuing day. The corridor connects the city’s confederate neighbourhoods and Electronics City with the wider Namma Metro network.
Each bid operating connected the enactment is equipped with Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) technology, enabling driverless operations a archetypal for Namma Metro.
Although the CBTC strategy has the capableness to trim headways betwixt trains from the existent 150 seconds to 90 seconds, services are presently being operated manually by trained bid operators. Once afloat CBTC functionality is implemented, the strategy is expected to amended operational ratio and let for much predominant services connected the corridor.
