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Complete map with index for Mumbai suburban rail network in English. This is a List of stations of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, a suburban rail system serving the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in Maharashtra, India.The Mumbai Suburban Railway was opened on 16 April 1853. The system is operated by Western Railway and Central Railway. Each route ...
The Mumbai Suburban Railway is an offshoot of the first passenger railway to be built by the British East India Company, and is also the oldest railway system in Asia.The first train was run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (now Central Railway) between Bori Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) and Thane, a distance of 34 km (21 mi), on 16 April 1853 at 15:35.
The project was also expected to improve the punctuality of train services, make them energy-efficient and allow a greater number of 12-coach and 15-coach trains to ply. Post-conversion, local trains will be able to achieve speeds of 100 km/h with ease.
The first passenger train in India from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai to Thane ran on 16 April 1853 on the track laid by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The GIPR line was extended to Kalyan in 1854 and then on the north-east side to Igatpuri and the south-east side to Khopoli via Palasdari railway station at the foot of the Western ...
A traffic intersection in Mumbai, 2009 Map, railway lines, ports and airports (Click to enlarge) Transport in Mumbai is achieved by both public and private transport. As of 2016, 52% of commuters use public transport. [1] Mumbai has the largest organized bus transport network among major Indian cities.
Deutsch: Schematischer Linienplan der Vorortzüge, U-Bahnlinien und des sonstiger Schienenverkehrs in der Metropolregion Mumbai English: A schematic map of all the urban, suburban, and other rail-based services in the Mumbai metropolitan region
Schematic map of the Mumbai suburban rail network. Date: 12 July 2006: Source: Drawn: Author: This Image was created by User:PlaneMad.
The first-ever mode of the urban rail transit system in India was commuter rail (or suburban rail), built in Mumbai on 16 April 1853. The first passenger train was flagged off from Bori Bunder (present-day Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai ) from where it travelled to Thane , covering a distance of 34 km in an hour and fifteen minutes.