#Kolkata: The ‘Non AC Metro Rack’ (Non AC Metro) is going to retire tomorrow on its birthday. Gita will be recited in the morning. After that the old staff will tell the experience. The documentary will be shown. By noon the passengers will see this rack. Thereafter retirement will be announced. Tomorrow is the 37th birthday of Kolkata Metro.
It was started on 24 October 1984. That too was a moment of celebration. And that history came to an end in another festive season. For now, the non-AC metro rake of Kolkata has left all the records of diaries and passenger trains in the pages of history. Sometimes blue-blue, sometimes yellow-red, sometimes white-black metrorail. Which was the first underground metro in the country.
In the first phase, 9 non-AC rakes came from Chennai to Kolkata. In the mid-1990s, nine more non-AC racks were introduced. From that Chennai. Till 2012, they used to carry lakhs of passengers every day from Dum Dum to Kavi Subhash. However, in 2012, the debris of the AC Metro gradually entered the lifeline of Kolkata to meet the demand of passengers. And their service gradually moved to the edge of Noapara Carshed Non-AC Metro Rack.
According to the rules, the code life of a metro rake is 25 years. However, 25 years is a long shift to make the Metro run again and again. As a result, 2009 to 2012 was the right time to retire. But under pressure of passenger numbers, non-AC Metro rakes have sometimes stepped across the tunnel. Now, of course, everything has passed. Farewell to Non AC Metro Rack next month. However, even after retiring from the job, the holiday does not match the wreckage of the AC Metro. Because from time to time the first metro of Kolkata will have to go on emergency duty.
In the Night Line Test, Staff Special, Signal Checking, all the first runners on the new line will be covered by that non AC Metro rake. However, many people have fallen ill due to age. He no longer has the ability to walk. And they will be declared ineligible in the register. Then they will be cut. Of course, some people may leave the room as a hobby. For now it has been decided that 22 AC rakes of Metro will be run from Dakshineshwar to Kabi Subhash. The number of AC rakes will also be increased step by step. Although the first metro was started in Kolkata, but later the cities where the metro was started, all used AC rakes. AC Metro is not the only one running in Kolkata.
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There was an example of replacement of expired rack parts. The General Manager of Kolkata Metro Rail has informed that at present non AC metro will not run. The first rake, which used to run in Calcutta, is now kept in the Howrah Railway Museum. Rest of the non AC racks are kept in Noapara car shed. For now, the history of Kolkata Metro will remain. Before this you will get a chance to see the last non AC rack at Taliganj metro station.
Abir Ghoshali