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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 last direct current (DC) suburban local train ran on the Harbour line on 10 April 2016. The special train left Kurla at 11:30 pm and reached CSMT at 12:15 am. The iconic yellow-and-maroon DC local trains had their first service on 3 February 1925, when the first electric local ran between CSMT and Kurla ran on the Harbour line.
Bandra Kurla Complex high-speed railway station, shortened to Mumbai BKC station, is an under construction high-speed railway station on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. [2] This station is located at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and the financial capital of India. It is the first and the southern ...
On New Year’s Eve train managers working for Avanti West Coast will begin a five-month series of strikes. The members of the RMT union will also stop work on 2 January and every Sunday from 12 ...
14 May 1996 – A passenger train collided with a bus at an unmanned level-crossing near Alappuzha in Kerala, killing 35 people from a marriage party. [78] [84] 25 May 1996 – At least 25 people were killed after a passenger train bound for Allahabad collided with a tractor-trolley at an unmanned level-crossing near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh ...
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The older Western Railway headquarters is across the road. Today, the station is one of the busiest stations in the city. Trains arrive and depart every minute with clockwork precision. Millions of city dwellers residing in the suburbs alight at this station to get to their offices in the business districts of south Mumbai.
The Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway is a public transit system serving Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Maharashtra. It consists of 37 stations from Dahanu Road to Churchgate railway station. It is operated by Western Railways (WR). The entire line is at grade. Trains are differentiated as slow and fast locals.