More ‘test runs’ in store for metro

For the second successive day, L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad ran the metro train for a 2-km stretch from the Nagole depot till the Survey of India as excited onlookers, local people and scores of mediapersons tried to capture the moment. Metro rail authorities informed on Friday that several tests would be conducted on the rolling stock or the trains, both in static and running conditions, in the depot and viaduct for the next six months. Officials said only ‘test runs’ would be conducted thoroughly over the next few months on the viaduct, which is the first construction stage of the project between Nagole-Mettuguda - Corridor one: Nagole to Shilparamam-Raidurg. Reddy explained that several stability and dynamic tests are under way to test each component’s ‘behaviour’ when the train is on the run.