Delhi Metro News: Just like the Blue and Yellow lines of the Delhi Metro, now all trains on the oldest corridor, the Red Line (Rithala-New Bus Adda Ghaziabad), are operating with eight coaches. Earlier, the trains on this route were running with six coaches, which was not sufficient to cope with the rise in the number of travellers. The problem was solved by placing two more coaches in each of the trains. However, the frequency of trains is still a big problem on this route. The Red Line corridor, which is among the busiest routes of the Delhi Metro, is reeling under the low frequency of metro trips.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in 2018 placed an order of over 120 coaches for the Blue, Red and Yellow lines. All these coaches reached Delhi in 2021. These coaches were first placed in the trains on the Blue and Yellow lines. Thereafter, the work of converting the 34.55-kilometer-long Red Line metro into eight-coach trains began in November 2022.
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39 Metro Trains Currently Operate On Red Line:
As many as 30 trains currently operate on the Red Line of the Delhi Metro. Over 14 trains of this corridor were converted into eight coaches till June last year. After this two coaches each were added to 23 additional metro trains in this corridor in the last nine months.
As of now, 37 metro trains in this corridor have been converted into eight coaches. A total of 74 new coaches have been added to these 37 trains. A metro coach has seats for about 50 passengers. However, a metro coach can carry a load of about 350 passengers. Therefore, with the addition of two additional coaches, 600-700 more passengers can travel in a metro on the Red Line.
As per the Delhi Metro, the time gap on weekends between two trains during peak hours is 3 min 21 sec on Dilshad Garden to Rithala. However, this exceeds 4 minutes during off-peak hours. This time gap further exceeds, up to 5 minutes, on weekends.