The number of passengers travelling by air-conditioned (AC) locals on the Central Railway’s Mumbai suburban network has increased seven-fold in the past six months.
The traffic has increased almost seven times from a daily average of 5,939 passengers in February to that of 41,333 passengers in August this year.
Presently, the Central Railway runs a total of 1,810 local train services, including 56 AC locals, in Mumbai.
An official said that most of the passengers opting for the AC local trains services on the Central Railway are from Thane, Dombivali and Kalyan.
