Vijayawada Metro Rail

In 2016 tenders were called for construction of a two-line heavy metro network. Work on this was halted by 2018 due to the cost not being supported by projected traffic. Since then the scheme has been reworked as a light metro, with three-car trains to operate from 750 V DC ...

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