Mumbai CR railway division

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Mumbai CR railway division is one of the five railway divisions under Central Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 1853 and its headquarter is located at Mumbai CSMT in the state of Maharashtra of India.

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Bhusawal railway division, Solapur railway division, Nagpur railway division, and Pune railway division are the other railway divisions under CR Zone headquartered at Mumbai CSMT. [1] [2]

One of the oldest and important railway project of Ahmednagar railway station was kalyan-Ahmednagar railway project which was in planning stage since British regime. It was referred to as 3rd ghat project. The survey of this project was carried out in 1973,2000, 2006, 2014 etc. This project was in pink book in 2010. This project could not be started. The alignment length of thus project was 184 km and it could have been shortest route for marathwada, andhra and Telangana. The major challenge for this project is 18.96 km long tunnel in malshej ghat section. [3] Malshej Kriti samiti is following for kalyan ahmednagar railway project. Kalyan-murbad section which is first phase of this project is already under survey stage. [4]

List of railway stations and towns

The list includes the stations under the Mumbai CR division and their station category. [5] [6]

Category of stationNo. of stationsNames of stations
A-15 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Dadar, Thane, Kalyan Junction
A2 Lonavala, Panvel
B2 Matheran, Igatpuri
C
suburban station
71-
D2-
E11-
F
halt station
9-
Total102-

Routes

CSMT-Dadar-Thane-Kalyan

Kalyan-Lonavala

Kalyan-Igatpuri

CSMT-Kurla-Panvel

Vashi-Koparkhairane-Thane

Panvel-Thane

CBD-Kharkopar-Nerul

Vadala-Bandra

LTT Branch

Vasai-Bhivandi-Panvel-Roha

One Rupee Clinics

To provide speedy medical assistance to rail accident victims, central railway in association with Magicdil, have established 24 by 7 one rupee clinics across 14 Mumbai railway stations. [7]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kalyan Junction railway station</span> Railway junction station in Thane district, Maharashtra, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solapur railway station</span> Railway station in Maharashtra, India

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References

  1. "Zones and their Divisions in Indian Railways" (PDF). Indian Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  2. "Mumbai CR Railway Division" (PDF). Railway Board . Western Railway zone . Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. "कल्याण-नगर रेल्वे हा विकासाचा मार्ग".
  4. "संजीवनी देणारा माळशेज घाट रेल्वे मार्ग". 2 March 2016.
  5. "Statement showing Category-wise No. of stations in IR based on Pass. earning of 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. "PASSENGER AMENITIES - CRITERIA= For Categorisation Of Stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. "One Rupee Clinics now open at 14 Mumbai railway stations" . Retrieved 12 May 2017.