The BMRCL had received the six-coach trainset in the last week of November.
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Bengaluru: Starting from Tuesday (December 23), trains on the Namma Metro's Yellow Line will run every 13 minutes during peak hours from Monday through Saturday as the sixth train will enter passenger service.
On Sundays, the peak-hour frequency will continue to be 15 minutes. There will also be no change in the first and last train timings from either terminal station — RV Road and Bommasandra, according to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL).
One train is being kept as a traffic spare for emergencies.
The BMRCL received the six-coach trainset in the last week of November.
The coaches were manufactured near Kolkata by Titagarh Rail Systems Limited (TRSL) under a sub-contract with China's CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co Ltd, which is supplying 36 trainsets for Rs 1,578 crore.
The 19.15-km RV Road-Bommasandra metro corridor opened on August 11 and has pushed up daily ridership to over a million, but passengers are unhappy with low frequency and late start time.