Title - NO 9-CAR RAKES BY MONTH-END: 24 new 12-car rakes on WR

Manthan K Mehta TNN

Mumbai: From today,there will be more room in suburban services as Western Railway (WR) has converted 24 nine-car services to 12-car.Now,there remain 50 ninecar services on WR.These too will be upgraded to 12-car before month-end.
From today,WRs 95% services will be 12-car.Sharat Chandrayan,chief public relations officer,WR said, With this,the total number of 12-car services on WR has now gone up to 1,090 per day.The additional compartments in these many trains will create room to accommodate 35,000 commuters.
In the last five years,there has been an 11% increase in WRs 12-car services,where as the rise in suburban passengers has been 11%.
Chandrayan said,Over the last few years,we have increased the capacity in trains by 34% due to which the passenger density per coach has come down by 17%.
Source said only three nine-car rakes now remain to be converted to 12-car on WR.A senior official said,We expect to complete the augmentation of these three rakes before month-end.After that,WR services will either be 12-car or 15-car.
WR runs 14 fifteen-car services between Churchgate and Virar.The official said,These services halt at all stations between Borivli and Virar.We plan to complete platform extension at Mumbai Central before month-end.

MORE ROOM ON WR

No.of 12-car rakes: 1,090 No.of 9-car services: 50 No.of 15-car services: 14

Extra coach on 3 trains

W R will augment a coach each in Bandra-Jammu Tavi,Bandra-Delhi Sarai Rohilla and Bandra-Nizamuddin trains between November and December this year.