Mumbai local train updates: Western Railways announces overnight block between Borivali, Bhayander

Western Railway, while sharing Mumbai local train updates, on Friday said that it will carry out a night block between Borivali and Bhayander railway stations on the intervening night of July 27 and July 28, 2024.

In a statement, the Western Railway said that to carry out maintenance work of tracks, overhead and signalling equipment, a jumbo block of four hours will be taken on up and down fast lines between Mumbai Central and Mahim stations from 00.00 hrs to 04.35 hrs during the intervening night of 27th and 28th July 2024.

According to a press release issued by Vineet Abhishek – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the block period, all Fast line trains will be operated on Slow lines between Borivali and Bhayander stations.

Mumbai: Railway staffer dies while coupling long-distance train at CSMT

A Central Railway pointsman lost his life when he got crushed between the locomotive and a coach while coupling a long-distance train at Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Station, an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

The incident occurred at platform No. 16 when Mumbai-Bhubaneshwar Konark Express's engine was being coupled at around 3.10 pm on Monday, he said.

According to the PTI, Pointsman Suraj Seth jumped onto the track for shunting off the locomotive that was not coupled with the train in the first attempt, Railway officials said. Seth got crushed between the locomotive and a coach and died, they said.

Ideally, a supervisor should be present while shunting work is on, but it seems in this case he was not there at the spot when the accident took place, said the officials

A Central Railway spokesperson confirmed the incident, as per the PTI.

Coupling is a mechanism where a locomotive is connected to a following coach and by which succeeding compartments in a train are linked.