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Purple Line
Purple Line
	Purple Line Metro Train
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Pune Metropolitan Region
Termini	PCMC Bhavan; Civil Court (Further Extension to Swargate metro station in the future);
Stations	16 (Operational)
Service
Type	Rapid Transit
System	Pune Metro
Operator(s)	MahaMetro
Rolling stock	Titagarh Firema
History
Opened	6 March 2022; 2 years ago
Technical
Line length	16.59 km (Operational); 9.2 km (Under Construction)
Character	Elevated & Underground
Route map
Route map
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Purple Line of the Pune Metro is the first line of the city's mass transit network.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] It runs from PCMC Bhavan to Swargate. The 16.59 km (10.31 mi) line will be elevated till Range Hills with 9 stations and will further go underground up to Swargate with 5 stations.^[7]^[8]

Route

The line will go via Kasarwadi (Nashik Phata), Khadki and Shivajinagar.^[1]^[2] The maintenance depot for the Purple Line will be located near the Range Hills station on the land acquired from the College of Agriculture.^[3]^[4]

Construction

Soil testing and topographical surveys of the concerned areas started in late December 2016. Excavation work for erection of pillars started in early June, 2017. The construction of the first pillar was completed by October 2017 and construction work of up to ten pillars was underway. The first viaduct was completely erected by January 2018.^[5] The first batch of tracks were laid between PCMC and Sant Tukaram Nagar in the second week of July 2019.^[6]

List of stations

Following is a list of stations on this route-

Purple Line
#	Station Name		Opening	Connections	Layout
#	English	Marathi	Opening	Connections	Layout
1	Bhakti Shakti Chowk	भक्ती शक्ती चौक	Approved	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
2	Tilak Chowk	टिळक चौक	Approved	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
3	Akurdi	आकुर्डी	Approved	Rainbow BRTS & Akurdi railway station	Elevated
4	Chinchwad	चिंचवड	Approved	Rainbow BRTS & Chinchwad railway station	Elevated
5	PCMC Bhavan	पिंपरी-चिंचवड मनपा भवन	6 March 2022	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
6	Sant Tukaram Nagar	संत तुकाराम नगर	6 March 2022	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
7	Nashik Phata	नाशिक फाटा	6 March 2022	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
8	Kasarwadi	कासारवाडी	6 March 2022	Rainbow BRTS & Kasarwadi railway station	Elevated
9	Phugewadi	फुगेवाडी	6 March 2022	Rainbow BRTS	Elevated
10	Dapodi	दापोडी	1 August 2023	Rainbow BRTS & Dapodi railway station	Elevated
11	Bopodi	बोपोडी	1 August 2023	None	Elevated
12	Khadki	खडकी	Under Construction	Khadki railway station	Elevated
13	Range Hills	रेंज हिल्स	Under Construction	None	Elevated
14	Shivaji Nagar	शिवाजी नगर	1 August 2023	Shivajinagar railway station & Line 3 (planned)	Underground
15	Civil Court	दिवाणी न्यायालय	1 August 2023	Aqua Line & Line 3	Underground
16	Budhwar Peth	बुधवार पेठ	Under Construction	None	Underground
17	Mahatma Phule Market	महात्मा फुले मंडई	Under Construction	None	Underground
18	Swargate	स्वारगेट	Under Construction	Rainbow BRTS	Underground

Infrastructure

Signalling

The Purple Line utilises the Alstom Urbalis 400 communications-based train control (CBTC) signalling system. Alstom was awarded a EUR90 million contract to supply the signalling and telecommunications systems for the Purple and Aqua Lines, as well as Mumbai Metro Line 2 and Line 7.^[9]^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b pune-metro-full-presentation. Slideshare.net (29 April 2010).
^ ^a ^b Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to revise metro rail project report The Times Of India (27 September 2012).
^ ^a ^b "College of Agriculture campus, a green lung, loses 119 acres to govt projects in three decades". The Indian Express. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Pune Metro work hits top gear". Hindustan Times. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b "MahaMetro Project Update". punemetrorail.org. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "MahaMetro lays tracks between PCMC and Sant Tukaramnagar". The Times of India. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
^ "MahaMetro begins ramp work to link elevated, underground legs". The Times of India.
^ "Pune: Metro ramp connecting viaduct to underground tunnel completed". The Times of India.
^ "Alstom to provide state-of-the-art signalling system for Mumbai Metro and Pune Metro". Financialexpress. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
^ "Alstom bags Rs 700 crore contracts from Mumbai, Pune metros". Construction Week. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

[slideshare1-1] une-metro-full-presentation. Slideshare.net (29 April 2010).

[TOI-1-2] Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to revise metro rail project report The Times Of India (27 September 2012).

[TIE-1-3] "College of Agriculture campus, a green lung, loses 119 acres to govt projects in three decades". The Indian Express. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[HT-1-4] "Pune Metro work hits top gear". Hindustan Times. 23 December 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[MM-1-5] "MahaMetro Project Update". punemetrorail.org. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

[TOI-2-6] "MahaMetro lays tracks between PCMC and Sant Tukaramnagar". The Times of India. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.

[7] "MahaMetro begins ramp work to link elevated, underground legs". The Times of India.

[8] "Pune: Metro ramp connecting viaduct to underground tunnel completed". The Times of India.

[9] "Alstom to provide state-of-the-art signalling system for Mumbai Metro and Pune Metro". Financialexpress. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

[10] "Alstom bags Rs 700 crore contracts from Mumbai, Pune metros". Construction Week. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

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v t e Pune Metro stations
Purple Line	PCMC Bhavan Sant Tukaram Nagar Nashik Phata Kasarwadi Phugewadi Dapodi Bopodi Khadki Range Hills Shivaji Nagar Civil Court ■ Kasba Peth Mandai Swargate
Aqua Line	Vanaz Anand Nagar Ideal Colony Nal Stop Garware College Deccan Gymkhana Chhatrapati Sambhaji Udyan PMC Bhavan Civil Court ■ Mangalwar Peth Pune Railway Station Ruby Hall Clinic Bund Garden Yerwada Kalyani Nagar Ramwadi
Metropolitan Line	Megapolis Circle Dohler Infosys Phase II Wipro Technologies Pall India Shivaji Chowk (Hinjawadi) Hinjawadi Wakad Chowk Balewadi Stadium NICMAR Ramnagar Laxmi Nagar Balewadi Phata Baner Gaon Baner Indian Agricultural Research Institute Sakal Nagar Savitribai Phule Pune University Reserve Bank of India Agriculture College Shivaji Nagar Civil Court ■■