Alstom was awarded a contract for about €156 million (INR 1069 crores) by LMRC to provide 20 metro trainsets each of four cars along with Computer Based Train Control (CBTC) based Signaling System for the city of Lucknow in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

The design of the train is a tribute to the city's cultural richness, with the front end conceived in the spirit of the gates to some of the city's most important monuments, including the Bara Imambara congregation hall, Asifi mosque and Rumi Darwaza gateway. The V-shape of the lower section of the front symbolises ‘dynamism and rapidity', while the livery is both highly modern and very much inspired by the traditional cashmere craftsmanship of Lucknow.

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