Launch of Mumbai’s first air-conditioned local delayed by 6 months
Mumbai will have to wait at least six more months for its first air-conditioned local train, originally scheduled to begin operating on the Central Railway corridor by the end of the year. However, it will take WR at least six months to complete the required technical and safety trials, receive certification from the commissioner of railway safety, modify tracks and remove bridges to make the corridor compatible with the air-conditioned train. A month before the train was to be introduced, CR authorities said that the height of old road-bridges over tracks prevented them from operating it on the corridor and asked WR to take over. Apart from lowering the tracks at Mahalaxmi, WR will also need to dismantle the Matunga and Mahim foot-bridges, which alone will take four to five months, said Mukul Jain, divisional railway manager, WR, Mumbai division.
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