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WR limits platform ticket sales at key Mumbai stations for festive rush
Western Railway has temporarily restricted the sale of platform tickets at major stations in Mumbai Division to control crowding during the festive season. The measure is effective until 16th March 2025.
13 March,2025 01:38 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
WR tears down shanties near Bandra Terminus
Following mid-day’s report, officials hold demolition drive to arrest progress of ‘soft encroachment’ on abandoned rail corridor. The shanties have been dismantled, with most of the structures being pulled down, though families who were occupying the space and their wares could still be seen at the site
12 March,2025 12:11 PM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
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New slum takes root on Bandra railway land as WR looks away
The land parcel belongs to the railways and was to be utilised for the now-abandoned 5th and 6th line expansion project. When mid-day visited the spot, between the WR main lines and Bandra Terminus, last week to check the status of the abandoned alignment, the entire stretch seemed to have been progressively and systematically encroached
11 March,2025 10:46 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
WR’s RPF recovers lost bag with valuables worth Rs 15.83 lakh, returns it to pax
The RPF officials during their duty had made the recovery of the lost at Bandra Terminus in Mumbai on February 16
17 February,2025 06:28 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Mumbai crime: Woman raped on train at Bandra Terminus; porter held
The "middle-aged" woman and her son arrived on Saturday night at the Bandra Terminus by an outstation train; after getting down, she entered another train which had pulled into the other side of the platform
03 February,2025 10:44 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Mumbai: Malad commuters get 300-metre breather
Station gets temporary platform to ease crowding; work in progress for rail corridor, new Harbour line station; this is the first time an entire 300m makeshift steel platform has been temporarily built to address the issue of congestion on an urgent basis
23 January,2025 11:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Bandra Terminus to handle more trains this year
New maintenance facilities coming up at Bandra Terminus, with three new pit lines nearing completion
11 January,2025 07:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
WR introduces LHB coaches on Garib Rath Express for improved passenger comfort
Western Railway has upgraded the Bandra Terminus – Hazrat Nizamuddin Garib Rath Express with modern Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches, offering improved comfort, speed, and safety for passengers
09 January,2025 06:03 PM IST | Mumbai
Mumbai: Massive wall demolished at Bandra station for open space development
340-m-long skywalk proposed on east side to improve connectivity from terminus to station
21 December,2024 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
Mumbai
High time WR set up mega terminus beyond Virar, say commuter body members
Railways’ latest plan for city’s teeming population seems to have not factored in a vital truth–that Mumbai is starved of space!
18 December,2024 10:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar