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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 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.
At 1.40pm on 29 October 1993 a "crude bomb with lots of nails" exploded under the seat of a second-class compartment in a train at Matunga Road station. [4] 2 people died and 40 were injured. 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings in Matunga railway station. Matunga Road was one of the stations affected by 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings.
After the construction was completed, On 1 February 2014, Mumbai Monorail became the first of its kind in India. [13] [14] In the early 2010s, many cities had conceived the plan to build monorails as the major urban transportation solution to their cities. However, Mumbai's monorail soon began to reveal the underlying problems of a monorail ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Kalyan Junction is a major railway junction station on the central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, lying at the junction of the north-east and south-east lines of the suburban Mumbai division of the Central Railway, 54 km (34 mi) north-east of Mumbai. It comes under top 10 busiest railway stations in India.