The Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) will be avoiding Secunderabad Railway Station's skyline, and will be built at a height higher at railway crossings than it planned to.
The HMR which is planned to carry around 60,000 persons per hour, will have 8 railway track crossings. Four of these crossings are at Begumpet, Bharatnagar, Lakdikapul and Malakpet, and the other four are near the Secunderabad station at Oliphant Bridge, Alugaddabhavi, Bhoiguda and Chilkalguda.
According to the old plans, the metro rail would have been built right over the Secunderabad station, but now the revamped model states that the metro rail will now take a cut into the old Gandhi Hospital land and be built far higher, on the Bhoiguda road under the bridge.
This change came soon after plans of expanding the Secunderabad station came into picture, as part of which could also be double-decker trains running.
The metro rail is designed in such a manner that the frequency of the train would be every 5 minutes, with 30 trains running in an hour.
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