Namma Metro Gets Fifth Trainset For Yellow Line

07 Oct 2025 CW Team

Namma Metro has received all six coaches of its fifth trainset for the Yellow Line, raising expectations that train frequency on the newly opened corridor will improve to around 15 minutes in October.

According to an official from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), three coaches arrived at the Hebbagodi depot late on Sunday night, followed by the remaining three around Monday midnight. Coaches 1, 2, and 5 were delivered first, followed by 3, 4, and 6.

The train coaches were manufactured by Titagarh Rail Systems Limited (TRSL) in West Bengal and dispatched on trailers in the early hours of 19 September. The trailers, operated by Total Movements, a global freight forwarding company, covered a distance of 2,036 km in 11 days, averaging 185 km per day.

The new coaches will soon be assembled into a trainset and moved to the depot’s Inspection Bay Line (IBL) for static tests, followed by two weeks of night trial runs on the mainline. Similar to the previous batch, the fifth trainset is fully made in India and is expected to begin passenger service by mid-October.

Once operational, trains on the Yellow Line will run every 15 to 16 minutes, an improvement from the current 19-minute interval.

The 19.15 km Yellow Line, connecting RV Road with Bommasandra via Silk Board Junction, was inaugurated on 11 August with three trainsets, operating at a 25-minute frequency. The addition of the fourth trainset in September reduced this to 19 minutes.

BMRCL reported that the Yellow Line currently sees an average daily ridership of 84,000, bringing Bengaluru’s metro network to 96.1 km in total length and increasing overall daily ridership to over one million.

TRSL is manufacturing the trains under a sub-contract with China’s CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co. Ltd, which secured a Rs 15.78 billion contract to supply 36 trainsets for Namma Metro. Three more trainsets are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.

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