19 Orange Train sets reach Pakistan

LAHORE: Nineteen out of the 27 train sets for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train have so far arrived in Pakistan while the remaining eight will soon be shipped to Karachi from the Shanghai port of China.

The Steering Committee for Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (LOMTP) Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassan told this to reporters during a marathon inspection of the ongoing works at the metro train project on Friday. He also visited the depot at Dera Gujjran, four elevated metro stations on the GT Road and stabling yard in Ali Town, Raiwind Road.

He said that 11 train sets had reached Lahore, nine of which had been parked in the depot and two in the stabling yard on the Raiwind Road while eight more sets were being dispatched from Karachi to Lahore very soon. He said that efforts had been geared up for finishing the project at the earliest for providing a swift, safe and honourable mode of urban transport to the common man.

More than 86 percent work of construction of depot at Dera Gujjran, spreading over 626 kanals, had been completed, he added. He said that 19 out of the 22 buildings being built at the depot had been handed over to CR-NORINCO, the Chinese contractor of the project, for carrying out electrical and mechanical works at the buildings which included Alkaline Battery & Air Compressor Building, Signal Building and Comprehensive Maintenance Centre.