Ahead of the festival of Raksha Bandhan, the Indian railways have cancelled 72 trains while it has diverted 22 trains, which can cause trouble for people looking to travel during the festival.
Mumbai rains: The Mumbai civic authority had also urged the residents to avoid going out unless necessary, as the India Meteorological Department issued an orange alert for the city earlier, predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall.
Not only local trains, but over 40 Express and Mail trains and more than 180 other trains services will be impacted as Western Railways to carry out work to lay the 6th line between Bandra and Goregaon.
Many of the passengers started walking towards Kalyan. The woman decided to join them and got off the train.
Maharashtra: The Carnac bridge, constructed in 1867, was shut down for vehicles in September this year as concerns mounted over its state among the Central Railway and Mumbai police officials.
Mumbai news: The introduction of these new trains will take the number of AC locals running in this section to 48 from its earlier 40 trains.
Mumbai and its adjoining areas witnessed heavy showers on Tuesday, resulting in water-logging at a number of places including railway tracks, which slowed the movement of trains and vehicles on roads. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted moderate to heavy rain in Mumbai and its suburbs over the next 24 hours, with a possibility of very heavy showers at isolated places, civic officials said. The island city (south Mumbai) received an average 95.81 mm rainfall in the 24 hour period ending at 8 am on Tuesday, while the eastern and western suburbs recorded 115.09 mm and 116.73 mm rainfall, respectively, during the same period, they said.
People enjoying the day-offs at their residences in Central and south Mumbai, and also some in the western suburbs faced inconveniences, while the timing of the outage of services aggravated the woes for those who had advanced their travels due to the scheduled maintenance works on railway tracks on Sunday.
The West Bengal government in its latest order on containing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, has allowed intra-state local train movement with 50 per cent seating capacity.
Due to heavy rains & waterlogging near Chunabhatti railway station, train services on Harbour line b/w CSMT- Vashi suspended from 10.20 am. On Main line due to waterlogging in Sion-Kurla section, services have been suspended from CSMT- Thane from 10.20 am: Central railway CPRO
Suburban train services in West Bengal resumed on Wednesday after being suspended for more than seven months, due to the coronavirus outbreak. With the reopening of the train services, the authorities are now maintaining a strict vigil and passengers largely adhering to the COVID-19 protocol.
In a bid to reduce overcrowding in locals trains amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Railway has introduced 68 additional special suburban services in Mumbai from Thursday.
A survey has indicated that 67 per cent citizens will not rush to travel through metro, local trains for another one month even if services resume in the coming days, according to LocalCircles survey.
Even as Indian Railways has resumed select local train services in Mumbai to ferry those providing essential services, bank employees are not being allowed to use the service to commute, bank unions said.
About 46 kilometres of the train journey is absolutely free for the people from Rajgir to Tilaiya. It is not a gift from Railways but the common people have created this system.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday announced a slew of measures for safety of commuters with a focus on foot-over bridges (FOBs) in the country
the Western Railway has launched a unique service through which commuters would be able to know the running status of local trains from simply giving a missed call.
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