Alstom Transport India Ltd today completed production of its 500th metro car at its factory in SriCity, an integrated Business city, near Chennai.
The factory manufactures Rolling Stock (Metro Trains) for Urban Metro projects and is Alstom’s largest urban rolling stock manufacturing unit in the Asia-Pacific region.
This facility is delivering metro trainsets to not only Indian cities but also global ones – Chennai, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Sydney andMontreal.
The currently operational metro trainsets built at this facility have clocked over 27 million kilometres cumulatively.
Alstom’s SriCity facility started operations in September 2012, with manufacturing for Chennai Metro.
So far,