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It will supply Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) with 20 four-car Metropolis trainsets and Urbalis, its communication based train control (CBTC) system. The system enables trains to run at higher frequencies; the headway will be 100 seconds.
"We are delighted that LMRC has entrusted Alstom with the supply of its first metro,” said Dominique Pouliquen, senior vice-president Alstom Transport Asia-Pacific. “This is an important project for Lucknow’s inhabitants and its visitors as they will soon be able to commute from the north to the south of the city onboard a metro that is safe, fast, reliable and environmentally friendly.”
Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh. The new metro line will be about 23km long and include 22 stations, of which 19 elevated and three underground. The project will be carried out in two phases, starting with an initial 8.4km-long corridor. The line is expected to carry about 430,000 passengers per day in the first year, increasing to over 1 million by 2030.
The metro cars will be produced in Alstom’s Sri City train manufacturing facility in India. The signalling system will be jointly supplied by Alstom’s sites in Bangalore, India and Saint-Ouen, France.
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