Port line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)

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Indian Railways Suburban Railway Logo.svg Port line
Overview
Owner CIDCO and Indian Railways
Locale Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
Termini
Stations10
Service
Type Suburban rail
System Mumbai Suburban Railway
Operator(s) Central Railway (CR)
Rolling stockBHEL, Siemens
History
Opened11 November 2018;5 years ago (2018-11-11)
Technical
Line length26.7 km (16.6 mi)
CharacterAt Grade
Track gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge
Electrification Yes
Route map

Contents

Legend
Harbour Line
to Mumbai CSMT
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Trans-Harbour Line
to Thane
Nerul
BSicon INT.svg
Seawoods–Darave
BSicon HST.svg
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Sagar Sangam
BSicon eHST.svg
BSicon INT.svg
 CBD Belapur
Panvel Creek
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BSicon CONTf.svg
to Panvel
Targhar
BSicon eHST.svg
Bamandongri
BSicon HST.svg
Kharkopar
BSicon HST.svg
Phase 1
Phase 2
Gavan
BSicon eHST.svg
Ranjanpada
BSicon HST.svg
BSicon exlCONTg@F.svg
BSicon KRWg+l.svg
BSicon exKRWr.svg
Konkan Railway
to Panvel
Nhava Sheva
BSicon HST.svg
Dronagiri
BSicon HST.svg
Uran
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Port Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway is a railway line serving between CBD Belapur and Nerul in Navi Mumbai with Uran in Navi Mumbai of India, which is attached to the Harbour line. It was inaugurated on 11 November 2018. Daily services started on 12 November 2018. [1]

This railway line will help to accelerate the growth of Navi Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, and the Newly developed areas of Mumbai And also will cater to the passenger traffic demands generated by Jawaharlal Nehru Port, port-based industries, ONGC, the Defence establishment and other residential, industrial, and warehousing complexes in Uran.

Technical specifications

The total length of the corridor is 27 km and consists of 10 stations; 4 major bridges; 5 roads over bridges, 15 roads under bridges, 1 track under bridge. [2] The 270 mt platforms for two Broad gauge (BG) tracks to cater 12-car electric multiple unit rakes with double discharge. The railway track structure shall comprise 60 kg/m I-class rails laid on monoblock prestressed concrete sleepers to 16660/Km sleeper density. The bridges will be built to the Modified Broad gauge (MBG) standard of loading. Stone ballast 65mm gauge with ballast cushion of 300mm below the underside of sleepers will be provided and also provisions are made for one arm of the railway line to go to CBD Belapur. Currently, 4 EMU Rakes ply on this line.

In this railway line project, it divided into two phases :

Status

History

The City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra (CIDCO) was appointed as a New Town Development Authority in 1970. The government acquired land from 95 villages and handed it over to CIDCO for the development of towns. To decongest the mother city, Mumbai, CIDCO developed 14 nodes in Navi Mumbai. The development of Navi Mumbai International Airport and 6 railway corridors in Navi Mumbai were meant to increase connectivity between the towns, nodes and mega establishments. The major features of the rail corridor are direct access from residential areas to the railway stations by foot, convenient interchange facility from one corridor to another, double discharge platforms at every station, easy-to-follow routes and comfortable and pleasant journeys from the key features of the commuter railway system in Navi Mumbai.

For that purpose, The railway Project between Belapur- and Nerul-Seawood-Uran was approved by Ministry of Railways and the CIDCO Board. The work on the project began in July 1997. However, due to various unforeseen reasons, the work was delayed and hence stalled, until recently when the project was revived after the tripartite agreement between Railways, CIDCO and Govt. of Maharashtra was executed on 29 July 2011. [5] [6] [7]

The original estimated cost for the project was ₹495 crore (equivalent to ₹25 billionorUS$300 million in 2023) in 1997, which escalated to ₹1,782 crore. [8] The cost is shared by CIDCO and the Indian Railways (67:33). [9]

Construction of Phase-I on this route was begun in the first week of March 2017. After completion of Phase-I, it was commissioned by CRS on 1 November 2018 [10] and after, was inaugurated on 11 November 2018 through video conferencing by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis. [11] More than 3000 tickets were sold, with earnings of ₹90,000 (US$1,100) during inauguration day of Phase-I. [12]

Stations

Nerul-Uran line (Port line)
#Station NameStation CodeConnections
English Marathi
1 Nerul †नेरूळNU Harbour line
and Trans-Harbour line
2 Seawoods–Darave †सीवूड्स-दरावेSWDV Harbour line
and Trans-Harbour line
3 CBD Belapur ‡सी.बी.डी. बेलापूरBR Harbour line
and Trans-Harbour line
4 Sagar Sangam सागर संगमSGSGM Gold Line 8 (Mumbai Metro) and Navi Mumbai Metro
5 Targhar तरघरTRGR Gold Line 8 (Mumbai Metro) and Navi Mumbai Metro
6 Bamandongri बामणडोंगरीBMDRNone
7 Kharkopar खारकोपरKR MTHL metro
8 Gavhan गव्हाणGAVNNone
9 Ranjanpada रांजणपाडाRJNPDNone
10 Nhava Sheva न्हावा-शेवाNHVSVNone
11 Dronagiri द्रोणागिरीDRNGRNone
12 Uran उरणURANNone
† - when travelling from/to Nerul
‡ - when travelling from/to Belapur

See also

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