The Hanoi Urban Railway Management Board (MRB) announced on Wednesday that they started on March 11 the final test on the line which would last one and a half months.
"The trial run will be carried out between 7.45 am-4.45 pm from Monday to Friday," MRB said. "This is the eighth and also the last test on the line's elevated metro section. And if things go on smoothly, the section is expected to be open for commercial operation from July this year.
According to MRB, the overall construction of the Nhon-Hanoi Train station metro project has reached nearly 78 percent, with the progress of the elevated section at over 99 percent, and the underground section at over 37 percent.
The 12.50-kilometre line starts from Nhon in Nam Tu Liem District and ends at the Hanoi Station in Dong Da District, and includes eight elevated stations and four underground.
The trains will be able to run at 35km per hour and the trains could reach 70km per hour at the middle of the two stations, the MRB said.
Each train is designed to carry between 944 and 1,124 passengers.
The project has cost about VND30.10 trillion comes from official development assistance of the French Development Agency and loans from the French government.
