Mumbai Local News
Indian Railways has renewed a proposal urging offices to adopt staggered working hours to help ease congestion and enhance passenger safety. According to reports, the railway has sent letters to around 800 offices to shift their reporting times slightly so as to help distribute the rush more evenly across non-peak hours.
The Harbour line of the Central Railway (CR) connects Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in Mumbai to Panvel as well as the Navi Mumbai suburbs.
A goods train engine has had a technical failure in the Umbermali-Khardi section, which is located on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
The disruptions caused inconvenience to thousands of commuters as trains crawled or stood still on tracks, several commuters were seen walking on rail lines to reach the nearest station.
While a point failure at Panvel railway station disrupted Mumbai local train services on Harbour Line, water logging halted local trains on the Central Line.
A video of the Japanese Envoy Hiroshi Suzuki tasting Maharashtrian-style street food in Pune has recently gone viral on social media. Suzuki, who once praised the hard work done by workers to progress the bullet train project, was seen travelling in a Mumbai local earlier this month.
The person in the pictures and videos shared on Twitter can be seen smiling and posing when confronted for littering in the Mumbai Local AC train.
As per Central Railway, the glitch occurred at the Juinagar railway station leading to a delay of about an hour on the Harbour and the Trans-Harbour routes.
The train services were disrupted on the Ambernath-Karjat section of the Mumbai local train network due to a technical problem, said Central Railway.
CR had to withdraw 10 services of the AC local train on its main line
Mumbai AC local train transported 41,333 passengers in August
The number of passengers was highest from Thane
The services have started to meet increased demand
This new timing at night matches pre-Covid operational timing
The total number of services will increase to 356 from the current 326
IMD has predicted heavy rains on Thursday
While there was no water-logging on rail tracks in Mumbai
A small portion of a wall collapsed between Masjid and Sandhurst Road stations
Heavy rains hit Mumbai local train services on July 5
Thousands of passengers stranded due to excessive rain water at stations
IMD issues heavy rain alert for various suburbs
Central Railway has decided to operate 14 additional AC local services
These additional trains will run on the mainline (CSMT-Kalyan/Titwala/Ambarnath) on Sundays and nominated holidays
The decision comes after railways slashed the ticket prices on AC local trains
Fares of single-journey ticket fare for first-class and AC locals becomes cheaper
Existing minimum fare of Rs 65 for a distance of 5 km will be reduced to Rs 30
It was a long-pending demand of the public to reduce the fares
An over-head electric wire snapped, stalling suburban trains
Thousands of commuters stuck as train services disrupted
85-lakh people travel daily on Mumbai local
Central and Western Railway line to install black box in trains
It has a 2 TB chip, whose data will be stored for 90 days
A black box records audio, visual during an accident
Mumbai local train services are scheduled to start this week. The process of issuing passes for travel to those who have been vaccinated for both the vaccines will start from Wednesday. Local train services for fully vaccinated citizens are scheduled to start from August 15.
The court posted the matter for further hearing on August 3
The Bombay High Court has decided that only state government and public administration officials are allowed to commute in public transport
Women are allowed to travel in Mumbai local, but these rules have to be followed. Watch video to know more.
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