Title - AIMS TO CONVERT ALL 9-CARS BY DEC WR gets 26 new 12-car services

Suburban train travel on Western Railway has got a boost with the authorities augmenting 26 services of 9-car rakes to 12-cars from September 26.
    WR will continue to run 60 services with 9-car rakes for a few more months as augmentation of the remaining 5 rakes is yet to be completed.”
    A senior WR official said, “On Wednesday, we were able to introduce two rakes with augmented capacity of 12-car. These augmented rakes are now used for running 26 services. Of these, 8 services run during peak hours, including four in the morning session.”
    WR said that the carrying capacity of these 26 services will increase by 33% due to augmentation to 12-car.
    Prior to the augmentation of these two rakes, WR had 7 nine-car rakes in its fleet.
    He said. “The work on the augmentation of remaining nine-car rake is also under progress. We are hopeful of converting the remaining ones before December 2012.”
    Before this services were augmented, WR use to run 1,040 services on 12-car. The remaining were 196 nine-car services, including 130 services on harbour line. It also runs fourteen 15-car services out of the total 1,250 services.