This Metro will race you to the airport at 135kmph

New Delhi: It will take men of mettle to run trains on the Airport Metro Express line. Keeping that in mind, a consortium led by Reliance Infrastructure, the main private partner to handle the operation, has started special training for drivers to run the trains that can easily clock 135kmph.
As many as 24 drivers are being trained to operate the high-speed trains - a first in India. Metro trains in Delhi run at an average speed of 35kmph. "Drivers are being allowed to operate the trains on short test runs so that they can gain experience handling them," an official said and added that trial runs on the line will begin later this month.
According to sources, the candidates are being trained with the help of simulators procured from Spain and a signaling simulator procured from Siemens, Germany. Both simulators are capable of creating deteriorated operating scenarios and mock emergency situations to train the candidates, they added. Various driving conditions such as fog, rain and fire are being created in the simulators.
09/08/10 Mail Today/India Today

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