The wait is finally over as the Mumbaiites can now enjoy traveling in air conditioned local trains as Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today saying that the firs train will be presented on January 1.
The nearby prepare arrange, considered Mumbai’s life saver, is vigorously congested and extends 65 lakh travelers extremely day, with the Western Line alone representing 35 lakh travelers. Authorities said the plan to present AC trains has been on the anvil for over a year.
First off, one AC prepare with around seven administrations every day will keep running on the Western Line. “The AC trains have been tried and tested and will be introduced on January 1,” Mr Goyal told columnists.
Authorities said that the charges on the AC prepare will resemble the Delhi Metro or around 1.5 times the cost of top of the line tickets in the current nearby prepares.
The railroads has obtained nine more electrical numerous unit (EMU) AC rakes for Mumbai with the goal that such administrations can be worked both on the Western rail route (WR) and Central rail route (CR) lines, authorities said.
The main such prepare was planned to run for the current month however there were some operational issues which postponed it. Nonetheless, senior authorities of the railroad board said that the issues have been dealt with.
“This will be the first commercial run. It is just the beginning and eventually the idea is to keep adding to the number of such trains,”Member Traffic Md Jamshed told PTI.
The Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway comprises of 37 stations from Dahanu Road to Churchgate railroad station. It is worked by Western Railways (WR) and runs the most administrations every day – 1,201.
Mr Goyal likewise mooted traveler expansion on the rural line by starting raised prepare benefits in the city territory. “I have officially asked for groups in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore to do a preparatory evaluation of its specialized possibility then we can get down to setting up its budgetary achievability.
“Similarly, in Mumbai there were two elevated tracks already planned in Western and Central lines but we are having a re-look at that because some of the costs were extremely high,” he said.
They were endeavoring to use just the customary rail “in a lifted form with the goal that cost ends up plainly sensible” and it can executed in a most optimized plan of attack mode, said Mr Goyal.
The clergyman likewise said that he has effectively endorsed 370 lifts for Mumbai, and CCTVs are to be introduced in every one of the trains and stations in Mumbai for better security.
