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Posted: Apr 15 2014 (21:04)
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Last Response: Apr 15 2014 (21:26)
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Colours of Mumbai Suburban
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I lived and worked in Mumbai for almost 9 years during which time I was a regular user of the suburban services on WR and CR. There used to be many colourful rake liveries, most of which are being phased out in favour of the standard purple-and-white (which MoR seems to have adopted as the future standard throughout India - notwithstanding how dirty white becomes in India). Also many older AC-DC rakes are being phased out as WR is now totally AC-fied.
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I lived and worked in Mumbai for almost 9 years during which time I was a regular user of the suburban services on WR and CR. There used to be many colourful rake liveries, most of which are being phased out in favour of the standard purple-and-white (which MoR seems to have adopted as the future standard throughout India - notwithstanding how dirty white becomes in India). Also many older AC-DC rakes are being phased out as WR is now totally AC-fied.
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This is one of two "modern" EMUs on WR that preceded the now-common ICF rakes. Like those rakes, it has all-steel interiors and large windows. Sort of an experiment perhaps. WR used to run it as a Virar fast - and I saw it as recently as 2 years ago.
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