MUMBAI: The Western Railway has sent a proposal to the ministry to set up a terminus at Jogeshwari, primarily to operate Tejas class trains and privately operated trains.
Indian Railway’s almost all long-distance trains run with locomotives. If platforms have a dead-end, a locomotive has to be attached at the rear end of the train to pull the coaches out of the platform once all the passengers deboard.
A senior Western Railway official said, “We plan to run Tejas class types which are like suburban trains that can be operated from both ends of the rakes and there will be no need to attach locomotives to pull in and pull out a train from platform. Railways is planning to run private trains and hence a proposal has been sent to the Railway Board for operating trains from Jogeshwari.”
