Thursday, November 24, 2011

CR to Run All Mainline Services as 12-car from 23.11.2011


Central Railway will augment Fiftysix 9-car services to 12-car services with effect from 23.11.2011. With this augmentation all the 785 main line services run daily o­n Central Railway will have 12-car.  CR ran first 12-car service o­n 8th Sep 1986.
CAPACITY AUGMENTATION o­n CR FROM 2008-09 TILL DATE
During the last 3 years, CR has tremendously increased its carrying capacity. CR has increased the services from 1410 in 2008-09 to 1573 at present (around 11.5% increase). The No. of coaches in service have increased from 13998 in 2008-09 to 16896 at present (around 20% increase). Central Railway is now running 1573 daily suburban trains in Mumbai by utilising 117 rakes.