Industrial Automation Magazine India

First aluminium metro train manufactured by Titagarh flagged off 

Published on : Monday 28-03-2022

Train flagged off by Honble Shri Manoj Joshi, IAS, Secretary – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in Titagarhs newly set up plant in Uttarpara, West Bengal.

New Delhi, March 26, 2022: Titagarh Wagons Limited, a flagship company of Titagarh Group and a leading Indian player in design and manufacture of modern passenger and freight rolling stock, achieved a big milestone today. The first aluminium metro train manufactured by Titagarh in its newly setup state-of-the-art plant in West Bengal was flagged off by Shri Manoj Joshi, IAS, Chairman – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited and Hon'ble Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, in the esteemed precede of Dr Brijesh Dixit, Managing Director – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited; Shri Jaideep, Director – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited ,Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Shri Sunil Mathur, Director (Rolling Stocks, System & Operations) – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited and several other Maha Metro officials and dignitaries.

Titagarh was awarded the prestigious order for design, manufacture and supply of 102 Metro Coaches for the Pune Metro project in 2019. The contract was signed jointly with its subsidiary- Titagarh Firema S.p.A., Italy (TFA). Titagarh will supply 3 Trains from its plant in Italy and the remaining 31 Trains from its Indian facilities. The total contract for 34 trains is valued at an approximate cost of Rs 1100 crores  is scheduled for execution by the end of the financial year 2022-23.

Titagarh, owing to the acquisition of its Italian subsidiary Titagarh Firema in Italy, is equipped with the technology for metro trains and also semi-high-speed trains and has been catering to the European market for  several decades. The first train  manufactured at Titagarh's Italian facilities was flagged off  and launched for normal operation  on the 7th of March,2022  by  Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India from the Garware Station in Pune. The Hon'ble Prime Minister also took a ride on the train.

Soon after bagging the order for the Pune Metro project, Titagarh swiftly built up the infrastructure in Uttarpara to cater to these ultra-modern metro coaches fitted with sophisticated features, the highest safety standards and comfort running at 90 kmph  on the Pune Metro Railway network. The upgraded plant in Uttarpara, West Bengal is state of the art and fully compliant with industry 4.0 standards. As strong believers in the Government's "Make in India" and "Atmanirbhar Bharat" policies, Titagarh also strived to indigenize several critical components such as bogie frames, interiors, and brake systems for these trains and is proud to report its success in doing the same.