The trial runs on the 32.5 lm underground Mumbai Metro Line-3-- involving Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ corridor -- began on Tuesday.
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy chief minister Fadnavis flagged off the trial run at Sariputnagar in Aarey Colony temporarily car-shed inside a 3 kms tunnel till the Marol Naka Station.
Initially, the design proving train trial runs will be conducted on the Down main line in about 3 Kms section between Ramp at SEEPZ to Marol Naka, while static tests will be performed on trains. The Train Trial Runs for Dynamic testing of Rolling Stock-upto the maximum permissible speed of the train trials section.
The Oscillation trials of Rolling Stock with RDSO have been planned in this 5 Km long section between Ramp at SEEPZ to Sahar Road station. The Service Trials will be planned after Depot facilities for Line 3 are ready with availability of required numbers of Train sets.
