This Week in Rail

A quiet week on the wire: Chennai studies a water metro and maps multimodal access for 41 stations.

Week to Monday 17 August 2026 — 2 items that moved on the public record in India, drawn from the platform's weekly watch and compiled by the editorial pipeline.

India

CMRL live tenders

  • CMRL tenders a feasibility-cum-project report for water metro transport along the Buckingham Canal, Ennore to Mahabalipuram

    Chennai testing the Kochi model — if the DPR holds, a new modality and a new equipment market open in Tamil Nadu.

Source: CMRL live tenders (Primary) — source. Checked 17 August 2026.

Tamil Nadu

CMRL awarded tenders

  • CMRL awards the DPR for multi-modal integration within 500 m of all 41 Phase-I stations

Source: CMRL awarded tenders (Primary) — source. Checked 17 August 2026.

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