Whats in it for the commuters from the city, Mumbai

TRAINS

DURONTO TRAINS

Howrah-Mumbai AC nonstop (bi-weekly ) Mumbai Ahmedabad AC nonstop (tri-weekly ) The trains will be four hours faster than the fastest trains on the route now and will have technical stops only

YUVA TRAINS

A weekly pilot service will be introduced within 3 months between Mumbai-Delhi . The trains with AC seating facility, will have a fare of 299 for distances up to 1,500 km and Rs 399 for distances up to 2,500 km

INTER-CITY DOUBLE DECKERS (AC)

No clear announcement as yet; officials assume the feasible routes from Mumbai would be to Pune, Manmad & Ahmedabad

SEVEN NEW TRAINS

Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (tri-weekly ) Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (daily) Mumbai-Bikaner Superfast (bi-weekly ) Mumbai-Gorakhpur Superfast (daily) Mumbai-Jodhpur Express (weekly) Mumbai-Secunderabad-Vishakhapatnam (bi-weekly ) Mumbai-Veraval link service (daily)

SERVICE FREQUENCY INCREASED

Amaravati-Mumbai Express will now run daily instead of 3 days a week

EXTENSION OF SERVICES

Mumbai-Jaipur Express, to Delhi (tri-weekly ) Mumbai-Kanpur Udyog Nagari Exp, to Pratapgarh (bi-weekly )

SECURITY

Integrated Security Scheme for sensitive stations More women commandos, women RPF squads, in areas where women travel alone, like Dadar, Thane, Churchgate. List of stations pending

TICKETING

IZZAT TICKETS

Monthly tickets of Rs 25, surcharge free, to travel up to 100 km, for members of the unorganised sector with monthly incomes of not more than Rs 1,500. The tickets will be available for travel on both suburban and nonsuburban sections

SUBURBAN SERVICES

NEW PLATFORM AT BORIVLI

Platform 6A will come up at Borivli, at a cost of Rs 14.5 crore. The 15-coach platform will be used for both suburban and long-distance services

WORLD CLASS CST STATION

Announced in the last budget, AREP France has been appointed consultant. It will be financed through public-private partnership

HANDICAP-FRIENDLY

Railway stations will have more ramps, lifts, escalators There will be special coaches for physically challenged and aged persons

AMBULANCES

Ambulance services at all stations

ADARSH STATIONS

Adarsh stations will be stations that will have basic facilities such as drinking water, adequate toilets, catering services, waiting rooms. In the city, they will be Andheri, Bandra, Bhayandar, Borivali, Charni Road, Churchgate, Dadar, Dahanu Road, Goregaon, Malad, Marine Lines, Mira Road, Mumbai Central (local), Naigaon, Okha, Santacruz, Saphale, Vangaon and Virar.

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  Promising some respite to Borivli commuters in the next two months, the new general manager of Western Railway, R N Verma, in his first official interaction with the press on Friday said a new platform, 6A, would come up on the east side of the station. A proposal to this effect has already been sent to the Railway Board and will be pursued by WR, he informed.

“Borivli commuters have met me and their problems are genuine. We have approached the BMC and MMRDA for certain developmental works. In the next two months the situation would get better,” Verma said.

Platform 6A would be will be used for both long distance and suburban services. Moreover, the road currently adjoining the station near platform 6 would be pushed eastward to accommodate a new station building as well as a 15-coach platform would come up. The cost of construction of platform 6A would be Rs 15 crore.

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Following the recent Borivli agitation, WR officials said the BMC had been requested to widen the narrow approach roads at platform 7 to enable BEST buses to stop there. MMRDA has also been asked to extend the skywalk from the east to the west of the station. There would also be a landing from the road-over-bridge to platform 8.

Verma also announced that from Saturday, 36 trains would be converted from 9-car to 12-car, taking the number of 12-coach services to 685 from 649 at present. Of this, 32 trains will be from Borivli to Churchgate, 2 from Borivli to Dadar and 2 from Churchgate to Bandra.

Verma also spoke of a Rs 97.5-crore integrated security plan for the city’s suburban services based on the BOOT model.

“Security is top priority,” he said, especially in the aftermath of 26/11. The security plans include 2000 CCTV surveillance cameras on stations, X-ray baggage scanners, explosive vapor detectors and bomb disposal equipment.

Regarding other development in the suburban section, Verma said 12 new platforms would come up due to the quadrupling of tracks on the Borivli-Virar sector. There would also be four new FOBs at Dahisar, Bandra Terminus, Naigaon and Vile Parle, besides 8 new booking offices and improved ticketing systems. Suburban tickets through mobiles will start shortly as also GoMumbai cards, he said. Toilets at various stations were being renovated, he informed.

Source : Times of India

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Railways Puts Mumbai Suburban train travel on fast track - Provides Rs.5,300Cr For Modernisation Under Mutp-II

In what can provide succour to lakhs of communiters, Indian Railways (IR) has provided Rs.5,300 crore for modernisation and improvement of suburban services under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP-II)

The railways intends to starts 300 suburban services using improved infrastructure and new trains under the world Bank-funded MUTP. Although railway ministry officials said allocation would be made in real sense from this year.

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In the last four years, the railways intends to lay the fifth and sixth lines from CST to Kurla and Thane to Diva. As of now, work is on in full swing to lay an additional pair of tracks between Thane and Kurla as part of MUTP-I.

MUTP-II also envisages laying the sixth line between Borivali and Mumbai Central. Work on extending the Harbour Line from Andheri to Goregaon has already started using surplus funds from MUTP-I, said officials in the Mumbai Railways Vikas Corporation(MRVC).

Railway officials said laying additional tracks under MUTP-II would segregate suburban train operations from the Main Line mail/express trains and freight services.

MRVC would also use part of the funds MUTP-II to convert power supply from 1,500-volt direct current (DC) to 25,000-volt alternate current (AC) to run suburban trains faster. MRVC has finished DC to AC conversion on a majority of the Western Railways(WR) net work under MUTP-I. The funds under MUTP-II will be used to finished the DC to AC conversion on the Thane-CST section oc Central Railways, said officials.

MRVC would continue to get new rakes under MUTP-II. Mumbai will get 7812-coach trains, said an official.

Lalus Bag Of Goodies

New Services: The railways intends to start 300 suburban services.

Hi-Tech Rakes: Mumbai will get 72 12-coach trains under MUPT-II

More Tracks: Laying of the fifth and sixth lines from CST to Kurla and Thane to Diva.

Big Money: Rs.9000 Crore has been allotted in the last four years under MUTP.

City gets 7 New Outstation trains.

What The Budget Means - Fare Deal

Mumbai to Bangalore

                   2006         2007         2008         2009

AC-1          2603         2603         2376         2328

AC-2          1502         1502         1440         1411

AC-3          1061         1061         1031         1010

SLEEPER    397             397            377                  369

 Mumbai to Delhi (Rajdhani)

                  2006         2007         2008         2009 

AC-1          3500         3405         3305         3238

AC-2          2040         2005         1975         1935

AC-3          1495         1495         1495         1465

New Services From City

1.Mumbai-Karwar Superfast

2.Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast

3.Mumbai-Bikaner Superfast

4.Mumbai-Gorakhpur Superfast

5.Mumbai-Jodhpur Express

6.Mumbai-Tirunelveli Via Thiruvananthapuram

7.Mumbai-Machilipatnam Superfast.

Source : Times of India

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Republic Day Bonanza - Western Railway introduces 40 New Suburban Services on 26th January, 2009. Dial 139 for any Rail related Enquiry. In our previous blogs we had mentioned that Western Railways had many plans to expand the network and increase the number of trains. Along with this there are plans to introduce the Metro and Monorails to reduce the pains of the Mumbai Suburban Train users. Have a look at this list of new trains and see if this helps to make your journey to your office or college easier.

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