Overview
- TS#01 operated a commemorative service on the original 8.3 km Shahdara–Tis Hazari section, with decorations and flowers for passengers.
- The train remains in revenue service and has logged about 2.9 million kilometres, carrying over 60 million passengers with roughly 2.4 million door operations.
- Mean distance between failures stands at around 85,000 km, exceeding the 40,000 km contractual requirement reported by DMRC.
- Originally a four-coach set, TS#01 was extended to six coaches in 2014 and to eight in 2023 to handle growing demand.
- Built by the MRM Consortium in South Korea and first delivered as a Rs 24 crore four-coach set, the train features regenerative braking that recovers about 40% of consumed power.