Mumbai Local Trains: Suburban services to resume with full capacity today

The Maharashtra government has decided to resume local train services in Mumbai for the general public w.e.f. Friday, January 29, 2021.

Western Railway has decided to start all its suburban services by increasing existing 1201 special services to 1367.

Passengers, as permitted by Ministry of Railways and Government of Maharashtra, are only allowed to travel by suburban trains. Passengers are advised to adhere to all norms, SOPs related to COVID-19 during the boarding, travel, and at the destination. Others are requested not to rush the station," CPRO Western Railway Sumit Thakur said.

Currently, there are 20 lakh passengers and if experts are to be believed then the number may not touch 80 lakh again anytime soon as people are still working from home in the city.

Before the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, as many as 80 lakh passengers used the local train services in Mumbai.

For the uninformed, the Western Railway has 1,201 train services running currently but from Friday, the number will go up to 1,367. As for the Central Railway, 1,580 services a day are run currently but from January 29, 1,774 trains will be operated.