Chalti ka Naam Gaadi
Carrying more than 6.1 million passengers daily, the local train is the fastest mode of transport available to you. At present, 1177 suburban services are in operation in Mumbai, serving 67 railway stations.
These stations are situated on the Western, Central and Harbour line. Both Central and Western railways have over 1000 services daily, and these, together, handle an estimated 5 million, commuters, daily. This number is more than the entire population of some countries such as Finland, Norway, New Zealand ; or the combined population of Singapore & Mauritius.
Western railway, for instance, has a train arriving into Churchgate at a mind-boggling interval of just 90 seconds or so, during the morning peak-hours. At an estimated 4000 people per train, just imagine the mass of humanity being discharged at Churchgate every morning!
The network consisted of
• the Central railway main lines from Bombay Victoria Terminus (VT), now renamed Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), to Kasara and Karjat
• the Central railway Harbour line from CST to Mankhurd, and its extension upto Bandra on the Western railway
• the Western railway line from Churchgate to Virar
Carrying more than 6.1 million passengers daily, the local train is the fastest mode of transport available to you. At present, 1177 suburban services are in operation in Mumbai, serving 67 railway stations.
These stations are situated on the Western, Central and Harbour line. Both Central and Western railways have over 1000 services daily, and these, together, handle an estimated 5 million, commuters, daily. This number is more than the entire population of some countries such as Finland, Norway, New Zealand ; or the combined population of Singapore & Mauritius.
Western railway, for instance, has a train arriving into Churchgate at a mind-boggling interval of just 90 seconds or so, during the morning peak-hours. At an estimated 4000 people per train, just imagine the mass of humanity being discharged at Churchgate every morning!
The network consisted of
• the Central railway main lines from Bombay Victoria Terminus (VT), now renamed Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), to Kasara and Karjat
• the Central railway Harbour line from CST to Mankhurd, and its extension upto Bandra on the Western railway
• the Western railway line from Churchgate to Virar