MUMBAI: In a major technical failure, the doors of the air-conditioned local train of three coaches did not open at eight local train stations on Thursday afternoon. The automatic doors of AC local trains operating between Churchgate and Virar railway stations did not open at Andheri, Borivali, Dahisar, Mira Road, Bhayandar, Naigaon, Nalasopara and Virar railway stations.
Railway authorities had to manually open the doors for passengers to board and deboard from the AC local train compartment. The train halted at Borivali railway station at 3.39 pm and was held up till 3.47 pm to inspect why the doors did not open. At other stations, the doors of the three compartments were opened manually by railway personnel.
The local train was delayed by a total of 10 minutes till it reached the Virar railway station.
