{"id":565564,"date":"2023-03-25T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=565564"},"modified":"2023-03-25T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T06:26:16","slug":"western-railway-to-convert-6-local-trains-into-15-car-from-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/western-railway-to-convert-6-local-trains-into-15-car-from-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Railway to convert 6 local trains into 15-car from Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Western Railway on Friday announced that it will convert six more 12-car services to 15-car from March 27. This will increase the carrying capacity in each train by 25% and reduce overcrowding. It will also reduce cases of people falling off trains occasionally during rush hour. <\/p>\n<p>Said WR chief spokesperson Sumit Thakur : &#8220;In an initiative to provide better train services and accommodate more passengers in trains over suburban section, we are converting six trains to 15-car, with three services each in both directions. While two will be on the fast lines, the remaining will be slow trains.&#8221; With this, the total number of 15-car services on WR will increase from 144 to 150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Western Railway on Friday announced that it will convert six more 12-car services to 15-car from March 27. This will increase the carrying capacity in each train by 25% and reduce overcrowding. It will also reduce cases of people falling off trains occasionally during rush hour. Said WR chief spokesperson Sumit Thakur : &#8220;In an initiative to provide better train services and accommodate more passengers in trains over suburban section, we are converting six trains to 15-car, with three services each in both directions. While two will be on the fast lines, the remaining will be slow trains.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}