KARACHI: Prior to connecting a 14 kilometer-long track from City Station to Orangi with the operational KCR route, the Pakistan Railways Karachi carried out an operational trial of running a train today that was concluded swiftly.
The relevant officers of Karachi division and engineers from KCR project participated in the operational trial. The electronic media reports pertaining to derailment of trial KCR train or any other accident near Sher Shah Region are totally denied as the trial train smoothly moved to-and-fro between City and Orangi stations. A 30 minute break near Sher Shah was a major part of examining the operational parameters that was misconstrued as derailment or any other accident.
Before the KCR operational trial, the Karachi division has also smoothly concluded the trial run from 1,238 feet/359 meter long China Creek Bridge connecting Keamari with City Station enroute Karachi Bunder Road commonly called KBX yard. The Divisional Superintendent Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, felicitated the operations’ team for accomplishing the trial runs.