Central Railway to run 28 more services of local trains

Central Railway on Wednesday anunced to run 28 ditional services on its Mumbai suburban network beginning October 15, an official release said. With more number of trains, number of CR's suburban services will increase to 481 from current 453, it said.

Meanwhile, " time table is being prepared for ditional 219 suburban services to make it to 700 suburban services shortly," CR stated.

Since October 10, CR has ded 22 special suburban services on its Mumbai network.

Western Railway alrey anunced to introduce 194 new special suburban services including 10 AC locals from Thursday.

With this total number of special suburban services will increase to 700. Currently, only employees of state and Central governments, nationalised and private banks, PSUs, pharma companies are allowed to travel on special services. Recently, dabbawalas who deliver lunch boxes and staff of foreign consulates and high commissions were also allowed to travel in se services.