Good news for Bengaluru metro passengers! Yellow Line trains to run every 12 mins from December 22

Bengaluru: Trains on the Yellow Line will likely run every 12 minutes from December 22 when the sixth train enters service. 

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (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 sixth train needs to complete a 750-km mainline run, along with signalling interface tests, before entering passenger service. 

A senior BMRCL official said plans were underway to induct the train on December 22, ahead of Christmas. 

While peak-hour frequency will improve to about 12 minutes, the BMRCL may not advance the start of train services from the current 6 am. 

At least one train may be kept aside as a traffic spare for emergencies, another official added. 

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. The current peak-hour frequency is 15 minutes.