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Khar Road station. Most of the historic Khar area of Bandra was a marshland of salty sea water. [citation needed] Alongside fishing, salt production was one of the vocations that sustained the earliest dwellers of Khar Danda. Pathare Prabhus were one of the earliest inhabitants of Khar, from almost a century and half ago. In the early 1900s ...
The first section of the Harbour line, between Kurla and Reay Road, opened on 12 December 1910. In 1925, the line was connected to the then Victoria Terminus via an elevated rail corridor between Dockyard Road and Sandhurst Road. [4] Suburban services to Mankhurd began in 1951. [5]
Khar Road (; station code: KHAR) is a railway station on the Western Line and the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, in the Khar suburb. It is close to the Bandra Terminus for catching upcountry trains. The name of the station is derived from the name of the Koli village, Khar-Danda, near the Arabian Sea.
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.
16 April 2013 : Extension of line from Virar to Dahanu Road 27 November 2016 : 37th station, Ram Mandir railway station at Oshiwara was opened between Goregaon and Jogeshwari station. 25 December 2017 : The first air-conditioned suburban train service in India began at 10:32 AM departing from Borivali to Churchgate.
Bandra Terminus. The nearest Indian Railway stations after this station's completion will be Bandra Terminus, Bandra railway station and Khar Road railway station, all located within a range of 5 km (3.1 mi)-7 km (4.3 mi) away. [1]
Bandra, Andheri, Borivali and Bhayander are important railway stations. A branch of the Harbour line terminates at Goregaon with further extension up to Borivali-Bhayander in the planning stage. Bandra Terminus is one of the six terminals for long-distance trains in Mumbai. Line 1 of the Mumbai Metro also spans the entire suburb of Andheri. [2]
Before the opening of Khar Road railway station on 1 July 1924, Bandra was a larger area and included the present day Khar neighbourhood. [4] It was considered too large a suburb to be served by one railway station, and a railway station was established to give the northern part of Bandra closer access to the Western Railway line.