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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

HISTORIC MOMENT ON WESTERN RAILWAY


15 Car Suburban Services extended to Churchgate

            With a view to facilitate daily commuters and to provide more space to them, WR is going to extend the services of 15 car local trains upto Churchgate Railway station. Initially six 15 car services will be extended from Friday, 28th January, 2011 on experimental basis.

            To ease the dense traffic on suburban trains and to create more space for commuters, 15 car services were introduced on Dadar-Virar section on 21st November, 2009. The 15 car services have 66% more carrying capacity than the 9 car services. 15 car services have received good response from commuters.

            With completion of the platform extension work for 15 car trains at Churchgate, now six 15 car services will be extended to Churchgate. Of the existing 15 car services, 2 Virar-Dadar, 1 Dadar-Virar, 1 Virar-Borivali, 1 Andheri-Virar and 1 Dadar-Vasai services are being extended upto Churchgate. The details are as under :
Dn
From
To
Dep
Arr
Churchgate
Virar
06.58 hrs
08.20 hrs
Churchgate
Virar
12.46 hrs
14.07 hrs
Churchgate
Vasai Road
16.10 hrs
17.21 hrs

Up
From
To
Dep
Arr
Virar
Churchgate
05.30 hrs
06.54 hrs
Virar
Churchgate
11.12 hrs
12.37 hrs
Virar
Churchgate
14.32 hrs
15.54 hrs

            These 15 car trains will halt at Dadar, Bandra, Andheri, Borivali, Mira Road, Bhayander, Vasai Road and Nalasopara stations.