Mumbai Local Resumes: Railways To Offer Full Local Services From Today; Check Schedule Of Trains

Western Railway and Central Railway will start all suburban services by increasing the existing 2,781 services to 2,985 services on Mumbai Suburban network with effect from January 29.

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Mumbai Local Trains: Even as Mumbai local train services resumed after a hiatus due to pandemic, trains were still not running in full capacity. Now, trains are expected to finally resume its services from Friday. The decision regarding the resumption of trains by Central Railways have been taken after a review meeting was chaired by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray which was attended by government, railway and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, as per the report in Mumbai Mirror.

What is the schedule of local trains to run from today?

The Western Railway is planning to open local trains for all commuters from Friday, as per the Mumbai Mirror report. A letter has been sent to all the station masters by the Traffic Control Department of the Mumbai Central Division of Western Railway regarding the services.

In fact, news agency ANI also reported that Western Railway and Central Railway will start all suburban services by increasing the existing 2,781 services to 2,985 services on Mumbai Suburban network with effect from January 29.

Central Railway has decided to increase the suburban services from the existing 1,580 to 1,685 services and Western Railway has decided to increase the existing 1,201 suburban services to 1,300 services with effect from January 29, the CPRO of both zones informed the press.

On the other hand Western Railways has also shared the update on train services on microblogging platform Twitter on Friday.