On February 8th, Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board (MAUR, the investor) announced the testing of
Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1
during the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday.
According to MAUR, Hitachi (package 3 contractor – procurement of electromechanical equipment, train cars, rails and maintenance for
Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1
project) is taking advantage of the construction suspension to continue enhancing the testing
process
for all 17 train sets.
Train sets of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 will be continuously tested during the Lunar New Year holiday.
According to MAUR, approximately 40 personnel (mostly experts from Europe and Japan) will be divided into groups to conduct testing, fine-tuning internal systems such as train car engines, information, signaling,…
During the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday, from February 8th to February 9th (which falls on the 29th and 30th days of the last lunar month) and from February 12th to February 14th (which falls on the 3rd to 5th days of the Lunar New Year), the personnel will work from 8 am to 6 pm daily.
“The systems of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 will operate synchronously and almost entirely automatically, so the testing is to ensure that the devices can ‘communicate’ with each other. This is a mandatory requirement to ensure passenger safety during train operation,” MAUR said.
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Hien – Deputy Head of the Urban Railway Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City visits and encourages engineers, workers on February 8th. Photo: MAUR
On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, this morning (February 8th, which falls on the 29th day of the last lunar month), the leadership of the Urban Railway Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City and the leadership of Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Company Limited (HURC1) visited and extended Lunar New Year greetings, as well as encouraged the engineers and workers (Hitachi contractor – package 3).
Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 consists of 17 train sets. Each train set has 3 cars, with a length of 61.5 meters and can carry 930 passengers, including 147 seats and 783 standing passengers. The maximum speed of the metro trains, as designed, is 110 km/h (elevated section) and 80 km/h (underground section).
According to the investor, the overall completion progress of Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 has reached over 97.5% and it will be completed and put into operation in July 2024.
