Surat Metro to Reflect ‘Diamond City’ Identity, Feature Stacked Stations and Major Engineering Innovations

Surat: The Surat Metro project is incorporating Surat’s identity as the world-renowned ‘Diamond City’ into the design of its trains and infrastructure. Designs inspired by various diamond cuts have been created for the ceiling and exterior elevation of the metro trains.

The interiors have been designed to ensure that passengers experience Surat’s identity as the ‘Diamond City’ upon entering the metro. The effort to link the city’s identity with public transport is expected to give the metro a distinctive character.

One of the notable features of the Surat Metro project is the use of ‘stacked station’ technology. Considering the congested areas at Maskati Hospital and Labheshwar, two-level underground metro stations are being constructed at a depth of approximately 110 feet.

In a standard metro station, tracks for trains running in opposite directions are placed side-by-side. In a stacked station, however, the track for one direction is positioned above the track for the other. This configuration enables metro services in both directions within a limited space.

In the highly congested Old City areas of Bhagal and Kapodra, the stacked station design has been adopted where land is scarce. The arrangement allows vertical use of space without requiring acquisition of surrounding properties or historical buildings.