Local Trains – Mumbai

Mumbai Local Trains - Crowded

In Mumbai Local trains are Life line of People staying here. Three main routes of Mumbai Railway Network are Western Railway, Central Railway and Harbor Railway which is the major source of travel and also cheap and faster. Most of the Service class people doing jobs travel via this mode of transporation which is always crowded. See Station Names in Mumbai.

Western Line Local Trains runs From ‘Virar to Churchgate’, Central Rail Local Trains From ‘Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to Kasara’, and Harbour Trains runs between ‘CST to PANVEL’, these Local trains and Railway lines are Connected to few of the Important Suburban Stations from which you can easily reach to any other place, Local trains starting from Churchgate, Andheri, Bandra, Dadar, Kurla, CST are always crowded till late night as this are the commercial hubs.

Latest Updated Local Train Railway Timetable On Mobile

9 Couch, 12 Couch and Ladies Special Trains

All the local trains running in Mumbai railway network are NON AC trains which are 9 Couch trains & 12 couch trains. There is no AC Trains in Mumbai. Two Gents First Class coaches, two Ladies first class coaches, 2 Luggage compartments and one small seperate Handicap Space attached almost near 6th couch. There are also few Ladies special trains whose timings are mostly during peak office hours to help working womens travel comfortably.

Crowded Local Trains

Crowded Local trains of Mumbai is a major problem now and people are falling down from trains getting injured and most of the times loosing their lifes. Highest crowded local trains are ‘Virar Trains’, sometimes people are breathless and falls unconscious, few cases are of heart attacks. Due to such huge crowd people dont mind seating near the 25000 V wire above local train coaches, and hey dont get surprise if we write ‘Its very Normal and Common practise now a days’ because they are unable to get into the trains. One can see small big oral and physical fights which basically happens because of uncomfortable travel.

In western railway, trains runs in different time schedules for different stations, for example few are : Virar to Churchgate fast trains, Borivali to Churchgate Fast trains, Slow Trains with Timings in every 10 minutes gap. Virar to Andheri Slow trains, Churchgate to Bhayander, Churchgate to Andheri, Churchgate to Borivali Fast etc.

Mumbai Local Train Timetable

Train Schedules in the UP and DOWN routes of all stations and as it is divided/catagories in 3 major routes (i.e) Western Railway Timetable, Central Railway Timetable and Harbour Railway Timetable which is really complicated especially for tourists if seen in regular booklets, For same now simple menu based Mobile Timetable is available for free trial, Click   Mumbai Local Train Timetable the same.

admin @ August 17, 2009