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‡ indicates the stations which Fast Up trains (to Churchgate) skip from around 5PM to 8PM. [14] †A footbridge links Prabhadevi to Parel on the Central line. Churchgate railway station is the terminus station at the south end of Mumbai city. In Mumbai, Western Line (WR) suburban trains use this station as terminus.
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.
M-Indicator is a transportation related mobile application that primarily provides information about public transportation in the cities of Mumbai and Pune. [6] It contains details about 232 trains, making 3,000 daily trips through 108 stations on the city's suburban train network. It has 84,000 timetable entries.
Some railway stations on the network serve both suburban as well as long-distance trains. The Mumbai Suburban Railway comprises a major 6 line – Western Line, Central Line, Harbour Line, Trans-Harbour Line, Nerul–Uran line and Vasai Road–Roha line. Each of these corridors may consist of additional lines that may intersect with each other.
This proved to be a boon for commuters of the two stations, who, until then, had to take a circuitous route via Mumbai city and had to change trains at Kurla. 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.
Today Intercity departs Mumbai CSMT at 6:45 AM and arrives Pune Junction at 9:55 AM and the reverse trains leaves Pune Junction at 6:30 PM and arrives Mumbai CSMT at 9:05 PM. [1] Thus the travelling time is reduced to 2 hr 35 min and the Intercity becomes the fastest train among the six sister trains between Mumbai and Pune. From December 2019 ...
On 22 March, the Indian Railways announced that the Mumbai Suburban Railway will be closed between 22 and 31 March. Mumbai Monorail and Mumbai Metro services were also cancelled until the end of the month. Thackeray announced that state-run and private bus services will be suspended for the general public until further notice.
The 650 km Mumbai-Ahemdabad Bullet train project is another major high-speed rail project that is supposed to run between Mumbai and Ahemdabad is poised to revolutionize travel time between these two major cities which usually would take about 7 to 8 hours to a meager 2hrs 57mins.This would create demand for real estate in key areas such as ...