Golshahr to Hashtgerd New Town electric Train

Iran Railway Development Consulting Engineers Company (Metra)

Project details

Project location Alborz province –between Golshahr in Karaj up to Hashtgerd New Town ( along the Karaj –Qazvin Highway )
Project status Project has commenced –the remaining activities are being completed
Consultant Metra Consulting Engineers ( the consultant of installations )
Control System Metra Consulting Engineers
Project Owner New Towns Development Company
Project Contractor Khatam-Al-Anbya Headquarters (SEPASAD Group) ,other contractors and suppliers
Date & Duration of the Contract February 2013

Project Description

The contract of “the electric train of Hashtgerd New Town ( Golshahr in Karaj to Hshtgerd New Town ) was signed between Metra Consulting Engineers and New Towns Development Company –in which the responsibilities of Metra Consulting Engineers are as follows :

Construction of two-way electric rails (Metro) with overhead power supply system 25 KV between  the station of Golshahr in Karaj up  to Hashtgerh new town with Civil operation , infrastructure  and superstructure , power supply , Electricity, SCADA, Control, Singling and Telecommunications, Equipping the final station of Hashtgerd New Town to the  required equipment and facilities  including  escalators and elevators, electric posts, camera systems, passenger screens, clocks, passenger gates and automatic ticket sales terminals, fiber- optics communication system and wireless telecommunication systems, paging and … .

Plan Objectives

Expansion of Line 5 Metro Tehran (Sadeghie Goldhahr) to  Hashtgerd new town
Creating a rapid rail transport system between Karaj and Hashtgerd according to the features and capacities of this city near the megacities  of Tehran and Karaj to overflow the surplus of the cities in the new town of Hashtgerd and the reduction of demographic load , pollution and challenges of the metropolis

Description of Metra Consulting Engineers Services

Conducting services of control and approval of engineering and designing documents, preparation of technical specifications and purchase documents on the equipment sector including electricity, electrification, SCADA, signaling and telecommunications, escalator-elevator, supervision of construction and supply of equipment, factory tests, supervision on installation and launching  equipment and systems, monitoring the project status and payment control, project control, preparation of monthly reports and supervisory services

Monitoring the implementation of civil and construction services of Mammoth station

Project features

The length of the project is 26 kilometers as two-line railway

The Number of tunnels: two

Maximum length of tunnel :2.6 kilometers

Method: cut & Cover

The number of stations: two ( final station is Hashtgerd new town and middle station is the Mammoth station )

Electric Railway with 25KV Voltage and the bi-level rail car (push- pull) With the most advanced control systems, signaling and telecommunications world.
It is also  largest metro station in Iran on the ground  (the final station of Hashtgerd new town )

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