The MMRDA is losing out on this revenue from the past ten days owing to a big loss.MMRDA has a total of five rakes in possession, which are operational for monorail Phase 1 (Chembur-Wadala). The authorities had used a few rakes from these five for completing the test run of the monorail phase II (Wadala-Jacob circle). According to reports, in 2015, a monorail coach in Malaysia caught fire due to similar reasons as mentioned in the CRS report. “The interim report is out, but the main report will come in after eight days,” said UPS Madan, Metropolitan Commissioner. “There was a spark in the rake due to technical reasons. The authorities are pitching to begin the phase II by year-end, a project that has been delayed for the past five years.On November 9, two coaches of a rake had caught fire. Also, the tyre had heated up, which caused the fire,” said a senior MMRDA official on a condition of anonymity. The official added that a technical fault in the rake released a spark, which came in contact with the tyre, causing the fire.
The monorail rakes have been procured from Scomi Engineering, Malaysian firm, are China STORZ COUPLING IN ALUMINUM fire resistant and have the feature to restrain fire for a period of 30 minutes. A senior MMRDA official stated that the train was in operation overnight for the testing of Monorail phase 2, which caused the tyre to heat up. However, the authorities stated that this is not the final report and the main report will come out in another eight days.. “The rake was continuously in operation before the incident for an entire night,” said the official. The monorail was made operational in 2014 is used by 19,000 commuters daily, and the authority receives a ticketing revenue of Rs 5 lakh per day. Mumbai: Burning of tyres led to the monorail rake catching fire, says the report submitted by the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), regarding the November 9 incident, where two coaches of a monorail rake (train) had caught fire. According to MMRDA, the fire that occurred in the rake stationed at Mysore Colony station on November 9 lasted for about 20-25 minutes.
