The Chennai factory of Indian Railways will make coaches for Metro trains in Maharashtra. The regular and AC local trains, Vande Bharat Express and most of the mail express coaches for Mumbai have been traditionally coming from Chennai’s Integral Coach Factory (ICF).

“In the current production year [2021-22], ICF is planning to manufacture 3,500 coaches in about 50 variants. This year, for the first time, ICF will be turning out Metro coaches for the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation,” ICF General Manager AK Agarwal said on Monday.