Vessel carrying 1st set of metro train to anchor at Mongla tomorrow

The vessel carrying the first set of metro train (Mass Rapid Transit) will anchor at the Mongla port tomorrow afternoon.

"The mother vessel loaded with the first set of metro train left Matarbari at 4:00pm today and will anchor at the Mongla port tomorrow afternoon," said Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) M A N Siddique.

A mother vessel with six coaches left Kobe port in Japan for Mongla port in Bangladesh on March 4.

"We hope that the train set will reach Uttara metro rail depot on April 23 and the second metro rail set will be shipped on April 15 from Kobe port," Siddique said.

According to the project details, integrated tests of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 will be carried out before formal operation and the trial runs will also be carried out after integrated test of the metro rail sets.

It said the length of the metro rail route up to Motijheel was 20.1 km. But now it has been extended to Kamalapur Railway Station by 1.16 km. As a result, the number of stations have also increased to 16.

There will be a total of 16 stations on the 21km route of the Mass Rapid Transit-MRT Line-6. 

The stations are: Uttara North, Uttara Center, Uttara South, Pallabi, Mirpur-11, Mirpur-10, Kazipara, Shewrapara, Agargaon, Bijoy Sarawni, Framgate, Karwan Bazar, Shahbag, Dhaka University, Bangladesh Secretariat and Motijheel.