LAHORE: The first shipment of rolling stock for Lahore Orange Line Metro Train (LOMT), which had arrived Pakistan from China last week, has been dispatched to Lahore from Karachi and is expected to reach here during the next week.
Advisor to the Punjab chief minister and Chairman of the steering committee for LOMT Project Khawaja Ahmad Haassan has announced to arrange a special ceremony on the 7th of October at Dera Gujjran depot for celebrating the arrival of the first set of train.
Presiding the weekly progress review meeting on Wednesday, he informed that the Chinese contractor CR-NORINCO has released the schedule for the arrival of locomotives for the train in Lahore. As many as 23 train sets will arrive Lahore by the end of this year and coaches for all the 27 trains will be available in Lahore by the mid of March 2018.
