| Incident Report by TrustMe on 31 July, 2013 - 12:00 AM | ||
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 TrustMe | Incident Report on 31 July, 2013 - 12:00 AM | |
Metro rail services were affected on Line 3/4 (blue line) today due to a problem in an insulator on the over head electrification (OHE) between Shadipur and Patel Nagar on the down line towards NOIDA City Centre.The problem started at 01.11 PM and was rectified by 03.12 PM due to which the services had to be run on single line between Kirti Nagar and Patel Nagar in the affected period resulting in delayed running of trains on the entire corridor by eight to ten minutes.In urban Mass Rapid Metro operations, overhead electric supply poles are located at a distance of 40 metres with two insulators on each OHE mast. Thus, the Metro electrical engineers had to locate the faulty insulator amongst 200 such insulators.Once it was located, the insulator was replaced within 12 minutes. Three repair teams were rushed to the spot from the Yamuna Bank, Mundka and Najafgarh depots.During the entire period centralized and local announcements were also made at all the stations and trains of Line -3/4. | ||