Category: Railways

New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the railways to provide free of charge assistance, including wheelchair facility, to persons with disabilities at stations. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan was hearing a suo motu petition initiated by the high court in 2017 after coming across a report that the door of […]

MUMBAI: The Western Railway (WR) will schedule blocks, during which certain train services will be suspended, for 20 days from November 27 to allow for launch of a girder of the under-construction Gokhale bridge that connects SV Road and Western Express Highway at Andheri. Details of the affected train services will be released later. The […]

MUMBAI: In an effort to speed up the multiple Metro projects in the city, the cash-strapped Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has sought 10% of the funds required for the works from the union government and 25% from the BMC. MMRDA is facing a funds crunch considering the enormous amount of infrastructure spend projected […]

MUMBAI: Mumbai Metro, which has become the second lifeline of the city, will now run for extended hours till late at night. For this, the last metro from Metro route 2A and 7 will depart at 11 PM instead of the existing 10:30 PM schedule. Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, as the president of MMRDA, […]

MUMBAI: Construction giant J Kumar Infraprojects, which is executing Metro-3 works, was on Wednesday issued a stop-work notice by the BMC for not following key air pollution mitigation measures at BKC. Similar action has been taken against 40 private construction sites at BKC, Bandra East and Santacruz East. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board(MPCB), too, has […]

MUMBAI: Bellasis Bridge, which connects Tardeo to Nagpada, with the local train station gate of Mumbai Central in between, is likely to be closed from December 1 for reconstruction. For continued access to the station, Western Railway has decided to build a temporary foot over-bridge with an escalator. Like at present, it will lead to […]

MUMBAI: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to improve Monorail frequency to 15 minutes per train by deploying more services from Friday. “Our monorails will depart every 15 minutes on weekdays, instead of the previous 18 minutes, with a whopping 142 trips available with an increase of 24 services,” Monorail posted X. Monorail […]

Indian Railways is now looking to make passenger coaches with “anti-injury” fittings. The aim of the move is to avoid injuries caused due to sharp edges or protrusions in fittings inside Indian Railways’ passenger coaches in case of an untoward incident or even sudden braking or jerks, a source told TOI. “For example, right now […]

The first train in Asia (and India) ran between Mumbai and Thane on April 16, 1853. As the years passed, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway expanded. With the merger of the Indian Midland Railway Company with the GIP Railway Company in the year 1900, its frontiers were extended from Delhi in the North, Kanpur and […]

NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways is racing against time to complete the redevelopment of Ayodhya railway station latest by January 15, barely a week before the installation of the idol of Ram Lalla at the Ram temple. The architecture of this junction is inspired by the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi temple. The revamped station is expected […]

NEW DELHI: NTPC Renewable Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC, has declared the commercial operation of its first project — the 50 MW wind project at Dayapar in Kutch, Gujarat. With this commercial operation, which started Saturday, the total installed capacity of the NTPC Group has become 73,874 MW and the total renewable energy […]

KOLKATA: From the end of next month, those heading to the airport late at night to catch red-eye flights over the next four months need to start early to ensure they have an additional half hour for the commute to prevent a late arrival due to the last mile bottleneck on VIP Road. The traffic […]