# Cities

Metro till 10 on Diwali night: DMRC

Delhiites can board the last Metro at 10 p.m. on Thursday, Diwali night, a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation statement said…

IANS | New Delhi | October 18, 2017 3:29 pm

Delhiites can board the last Metro at 10 p.m. on Thursday, Diwali night, a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation statement said on Wednesday.

Instead of the usual 11.30 p.m., “the last metro train service on October 19… will start at 10 p.m. from terminal stations of all metro lines including Airport Express,” it said.

The time for the start of the service though would remain unchanged i.e. 6 a.m. for usual lines and 4:45 a.m. for the Airport Express line.

# Supplements

Four decades of Calcutta Metro : The unstoppable journey

Finally, on 24 October 1984, Calcutta got its memorable Diwali gift, as the 75th city in the world and as the first city of India to have a commercially active underground tube line of 3.4 km covering only five stations: Esplanade, Park Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan and Bhawanipur.

# Bengal

Heritage run of NGEF rake to celebrate 40 years of city Metro

As a part of the celebration of 40 years of Kolkata Metro Railway, a heritage run of an NGEF rake was organised by the carrier today.

# Cities

Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line services to be briefly regulated on Friday early morning

As part of the planned maintenance activities at Vishwavidyalaya Metro station on the Delhi Metro's Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli – Millennium City Centre Gurugram), train services on the Line will be briefly regulated in the early morning hours of October 11 till 6:25 am.