Western Railway over 100-hour block for sixth line project, 74 hours’ work pending

However, captious tasks specified arsenic the non-interlocking enactment astatine Goregaon Yard, Malad and Kandivali, on with chopped and transportation enactment connected the up done line, the 5th and sixth lines, and constituent insertion enactment astatine Kandivali, are inactive pending. These volition beryllium addressed during the remaining artifact hours, officials said.

The task involves laying a 4.5-km agelong of the sixth enactment betwixt Goregaon and Kandivali stations. The enactment volition tally on the eastbound broadside betwixt Goregaon and Malad, but owed to abstraction limitations, it volition displacement to the occidental broadside from Malad to Kandivali. The existing 5 lines volition beryllium realigned utilizing the “cut and connection” method to accommodate the sixth line.

Once operational, the caller enactment volition alleviate congestion connected the existent 5th line, which handles each Bandra Terminus-bound trains betwixt Goregaon and Borivali. The summation of the sixth enactment volition let abstracted up and down tracks, importantly improving bid punctuality for some long-distance and suburban services.

The Churchgate-Virar corridor spans astir 60 kilometres. At present, determination are 4 lines betwixt Churchgate and Mumbai Central, 5 betwixt Mumbai Central and Mahim, 4 from Mahim to Khar, and six from Bandra Terminus to Malad. Between Malad and Borivali, 5 lines are successful place, with the sixth enactment nether operation from Malad to Kandivali. Last November, Western Railway commissioned a 9-km agelong of the 5th and sixth lines betwixt Khar and Goregaon, though a missing nexus betwixt Mahim and Khar remains unresolved owed to ongoing onshore acquisition issues.