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This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951 and its headquarter is located at Mumbai Central in the state of Maharashtra of India. Vadodara railway division, Ahmedabad railway division, Bhavnagar railway division, Rajkot railway division and Ratlam railway division are the other five railway divisions under WR Zone headquartered at ...
This railway station lies on both the Central line named as Dadar Central with station code DR and Western line named as Dadar Western with station code DDR. It is also a terminal for Mumbai Suburban Railway as well as Indian Railways. [2] Two roads are passes through parallel in the vicinity of Dadar railway station which is Senapati Bapat ...
The Western Railway (abbreviated WR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways and is among the busiest railway networks in India, headquartered at Mumbai, Maharashtra. The major railway routes of Indian Railways which come under Western Railways are: Mumbai Central – Ratlam , Mumbai Central– Ahmedabad and Palanpur –Ahmedabad.
6 (E6XXX): Some Southern and South Western Railway zone trains; 7 (E7XXX): South Central and some South Western Railway zone trains; 8 (E8XXX): South Eastern, South East Central and East Coast Railway zone trains; 9 (E9XXX): Western and some West Central and North Western Railway zone trains; If the first digit is 8, the second digit is 2. [4]
Bandra Terminus is near to Bandra railway station and serves interstate traffic on the Western Railway. The station is a Grade-I heritage structure. The other 4 railway stations on Mumbai's heritage list include Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus , Western Railways Headquarters Building (Churchgate) , Byculla railway station and Reay Road ...
Station name Station code city Railway zone Elevation Notes Abada: ABB: West Bengal: SER/South Eastern: 7 m [1]Abhaipur: AHA: Bihar: ER/Eastern: 52 m [2]Abhayapuri: AYU
Western Railway's EMU fleet consists of EMUs running on AC 25 kV power. WR uses seven 9-car rakes. The Western line began running electric trains with DC power on 5 January 1928. [15] On 5 February 2012, WR finished converting the entire Western line from the earlier used 1,500 V DC to 25 kV AC power.
The first passenger train in India traveled from Mumbai to Thane on 16 April 1853. By May 1854, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) Bombay–Thane line had been extended to Kalyan. Bhusawal Railway station was built in 1860, and in 1867 the GIPR branch line was extended to Nagpur. [2]