Namma Metro Yellow Line Gets Its 13th Train — Two Away From Full 15-Train Fleet

Namma Metro's busiest new corridor just got a step closer to its fastest timetable: the Yellow Line's 13th trainset has arrived at Hebbagodi depot, putting Bengaluru's Electronics City line just two trains away from its full 15-train fleet — and the sub-5-minute peak headway that comes with it.

750 km of testing stands between depot and platform

The 13th driverless-capable trainset for the Yellow Line arrived at Hebbagodi depot in June 2026 and will now enter a mandatory commissioning process. Before it can carry a single passenger, the train must complete around 750 kilometres of dynamic testing on the mainline tracks — a standard safety requirement that typically takes several weeks to complete once the main-line slots are available.

BMRCL officials confirmed that two more trainsets are still to be delivered to complete the full ordered fleet of 15 trains for the RV Road–Bommasandra corridor. Those final deliveries are anticipated in the weeks ahead, after which the entire fleet will be progressively commissioned and inducted into regular passenger service.

From 25-minute waits to single-digit headways

When the Yellow Line opened in August 2025 it ran just three to five trains with a headway of around 25 minutes — long enough to frustrate the IT professionals it was built for. BMRCL has been accelerating fleet induction ever since: each new trainset has allowed the timetable to tighten, and peak-hour frequency had already reached 9 minutes as of early 2026.

Once all 15 trains clear commissioning, the Yellow Line is expected to run with a peak headway of around 5 to 7 minutes. That is a transformative upgrade for the 19.15-km corridor, where trains serving the heart of South Bengaluru's tech corridor currently run closer to 7–9 minutes apart even at rush hour.

Why every extra train matters for Electronics City

The Yellow Line links RV Road to Bommasandra across 16 stations, passing through Silk Board Junction, BTM Layout, and Electronic City — the address of dozens of major IT campuses. Tens of thousands of software engineers depend on it each workday, and the line helped push Namma Metro's network-wide daily ridership to a record 10.5 lakh passengers when it first opened.

Shortening the peak headway to 5 minutes removes one of the last practical barriers to mass adoption: the uncertainty of standing on a platform and not knowing when the next train arrives. With 13 trains already on the corridor and two more on the way, Bengaluru's commuters can see the finish line for a genuinely frequent metro service on the city's most important tech-hub route.