End of an Era: India's last DC local Farewell Ceremony (Complete Coverage)...!!!
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End of an Era: Mumbai's last DC local Farewell Ceremony....!!!
Special Traffic & Power Block for DC-AC Conversion
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more... DC special 9-car local to run from Kurla to CST
Central Railway will operate on CST-Panvel Up and Dn Harbour Lines and Thane-Vashi/ Belapur/Panvel Up and Dn Transharbour Lines including yards, sidings, etc. for 25 KV AC charging as under:
Duration of OHE Block from 0015 hrs to 0615 hrs on 9/10.4.2016
Duration of Traffic Block from 2330 hrs to 0620 hrs on 9/10.4.2016
A DC special 9-car local will run from Kurla Dep 2330 hrs to CST Arr 2359 hrs on 9.4.2016
Suburban services between CST-Panvel/Andheri on harbour line and Thane-Vashi/ Nerul/Panvel on Transharbour line will remain suspended on Up and Dn lines.
The Harbour line is a branch line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway operated by Central Railways. It was named so because it catered to the eastern neighbourhoods along the city's natural harbour. Its termini are Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Andheri and Panvel on the CST-Andheri, CST-Panvel and Panvel-Andheri routes. The first section of the line, between Kurla and Reay Road, opened on 12 December 1910. In 1925, the line was connected to the then Victoria Terminus via an elevated rail corridor between Dockyard Road and Sandhurst Road.Suburban services to Mankhurd began in 1951. The line was later extended from Mankhurd to serve most of Navi Mumbai via the Mankhurd–Belapur–Panvel rail corridor in the 1990s.
The line is a double line and therefore does not have any fast trains on it. The line runs parallel to the Central Railway line till just before Sandhurst Road station where the line turns eastward and runs elevated up till Sewri. At Wadala Road, the line branches into two. The first line joins with the Western line at Mahim and terminates at Andheri. The second line follows through Mankhurd into the city of Navi Mumbai, where it again branches out into two lines, one going to Thane and the other to Panvel. The first stop outside Mumbai is the township of Vashi.
The Mankhurd–Belapur–Panvel rail corridor that connects the suburban rail network to Navi Mumbai was commissioned in phases in the 1990s. Vashi was connected in May 1992, Nerul in February 1993, Belapur in June 1993 and Panvel in June 1998. The corridor was converted to double line in April, 2000. In 2004, the Trans-Harbour line was opened to the public. The line directly connected Vashi to Thane. This proved to be a boon for commuters of the two stations, who, until then, had to take a circuitous route via Mumbai city and had to change trains at Kurla.
About 580 services run daily on the Harbour line. Approximately 208 of those are on the Thane-Vashi-Nerul-Panvel route and 172 of those run on the CST-Andheri route.
