Bombardier to roll out metro rail coaches in May

After bagging Nano, the Gujarat government is now gearing up for another big ticket event in surface transport - the roll out of first ever private railway equipments in May next year from Vadodara

Canadian firm Bombardier Transportation which is setting up a coach factory to manufacture and assemble coaches will inaugurate the facility that is coming up on over 1.40 lakh square feet area on November 13.

The facility at Savli, Baroda will be the first large-scale rolling stock and bogies manufacturing site in India that is fully-owned by a foreign multinational company. The site will manufacture and supply the highly successful MOVIA rail vehicles to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. DMRC has paid Rs 2,500 crore to Bombardier for the metro coaches. Bombardier will supply about 350 metro coaches to DMRC. About 500-550 workers would be hired for the factory, comprising of 100 supervisors and engineers.

The factory would have a capacity to roll out 40 coaches per month at peak performance and 24 coaches per month usually. It can manufacture both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock.

Apart from Delhi, other cities like Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad have plans to implement metro rail systems.