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The nonstop bid from Chennai Central metro to Airport metro, the greenish enactment of the Metrorail, was affected the full Tuesday owed to constituent instrumentality failure, said Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) officials.
A time aft the work was stopped, the CMRL posted connected X astatine the commencement of operations connected Wednesday that the nonstop bid work betwixt Chennai Central metro to Airport metro (Inter-Corridor) person resumed mean operations.
Explaining the crushed wherefore it took a time to rectify the problem, a CMRL authoritative said the method snag pointed to the nonaccomplishment of the constituent instrumentality that allowed crossing of trains from the greenish enactment (Corridor 2) to the bluish enactment (Corridor 1). Replacing the constituent instrumentality during daytime would person disrupted the services connected the bluish enactment also, astatine slightest for much than 1 hour.
“This would person resulted successful nary trains being operated to the Airport during this period, causing adjacent much inconvenience to the commuters. So, we had to hold until nighttime to repair the constituent machine,”the authoritative said.
Another root successful the CMRL said that they had tried taking up repairs successful the greeting itself erstwhile the method snag was identified. The constituent instrumentality had a mechanical failure, a 1 successful a cardinal hours failure. But since that could not beryllium done, the instrumentality was replaced astatine nighttime aft services ended, helium said. All the constituent machines are checked routinely for problems, the authoritative added.
Tunnelling work
The CMRL said the Phase II Project has achieved different milestone successful Corridor-3 with the palmy breakthrough achieved by Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Melagiri successful creating a passageway from Ayanavaram presumption to Perambur station, covering a region of 861m.
CMRL has completed 19 TBM breakthroughs successful the signifier II project.
The passageway betwixt Ayanavaram and Perambur is simply a analyzable agelong with large challenges.
The TBM (Melagiri) passed beneath the railway tracks and platforms astatine Perambur railway presumption and densely populated areas.
