INDIA: BEML has inaugurated a bogie and traction motor testing facility at its metro car manufacturing plant at the BEML Bangalore Complex.
The company said the indigenously- developed facility was ‘one of its kind’ in India, and would help it to improve metro train reliability and ride quality.
BEML said it has a 48% share of the Indian metro car market, with vehicles currently being produced for Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai, and previously supplied to Delhi and Jaipur.
INDIA: The Wabtec India Engineering & Technology Centre was inaugurated on December 12. The company is investing US$5m in the facility, which will occupy five floors of a building on the ITC Green Campus in Bangalore. This will house engineering teams from across the company’s digital electronics ...
INDIA: BEML has been selected to supply 63 six-car driverless trainsets to operate on Mumbai metro lines 2A, 2B and 7, the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs announced on November 22. The state-owned company’s bid of Rs30·15bn was the lowest, beating bids from Alstom, Bombardier, a consortium of ...
INDIA: Kolkata Metro Rail Corp took delivery of the first train for the East-West Line on March 31 from BEML’s factory in Bangalore. KMRC originally awarded CAF the rolling stock contract in 2009, but the Spanish manufacturer pulled out of the project in 2014. In September 2015 BEML emerged ...
