Delhi Metro's airport service to begin on Wednesday

New Delhi; Delhi Metro's showcase Airport Express Line , which promises to take passengers from the city's shopping hub Connaught Place to Indira Gandhi International Airport in 20 minutes, will begin its commercial operations from Wednesday.
The 23-km high-speed link on which trains will initially run at a speed of 105km per hour will open nearly five months after it missed its original deadline of 2010 Commonwealth Games.
"The line will begin its commercial operations on Wednesday", a Delhi Metro source said.
CISF spokesperson Rohit Katiyar said the force will conduct anti-sabotage operations on the Airport Express corridor tomorrow.
"The deployment of CISF personnel on the Line is on. Anti-sabotage operations will be done on the line tomorrow and on February 23 morning, the CISF will be ready for operations," the source said.
However, a formal inauguration of the high-speed link, the first Metro corridor in the country to come up on the Public-Private-Partnership mode, is likely to take place later.
21/02/11 PTI/Economic Times

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011