This railway line will help to accelerate the growth of Navi Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the Newly developed areas of Navi 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 27km (17mi) and consists of ten stations; four major bridges; five roads over bridges, 15 roads under bridges, one track under bridge.[2] The 270m (890ft) platforms for two Broad gauge (BG) tracks to cater 12-car electric multiple unit rakes with double discharge. The railway track structure shall comprise 60kg/m (120lb/yd) I-class rails laid on monoblock prestressed concrete sleepers to 16,660/km (26,810/mi) sleeper density. The bridges will be built to the Modified Broad gauge (MBG) standard of loading. Stone ballast 65mm (2+1/2in) gauge with ballast cushion of 300mm (12in) below the underside of sleepers will be provided and also provisions are made for one branch of the railway line to go to CBD Belapur. Currently, 4 EMU rakes ply on this line.
This railway line project is divided into two phases:
Phase I starts from Nerul and CBD Belapur to Kharkopar with stations are Seawoods-Darave-Karave, Bamandongri and Kharkopar.
Phase II starts from Kharkopar to Uran with stations are Shematikhar, Nhava Sheva, Dronagiri and Uran.
In Phase III, Targhar and Gavan stations will be started.
Status
In Phase I, Bamandongri and Kharkopar are fully operational and Targhar railway station was still under construction.[3]
In Phase II, the Construction of all stations lying between Kharkopar and Uran were completed except Gavan railway station and flagged of by PM Narendra Modi on 12 January 2024.[4]
In Phase III, Targhar and Gavan stations were started fully operational from 15 December 2025.[5]
History
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (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 six 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 CBD Belapur and Nerul-Seawoods-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.[6][7][8]
The original estimated cost for the project was ₹495 crore (equivalent to ₹25billionorUS$300million in 2023) in 1997, which escalated to ₹1,782 crore.[9] The cost is shared by CIDCO and the Indian Railways, 67:33.[10]
Construction of Phase I on this route began in the first week of March 2017. After completion of Phase I, it was commissioned by CRS on 1 November 2018[11] and after, was inaugurated on 11 November 2018 through video conferencing by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis.[12] More than 3,000 tickets were sold, with earnings of ₹90,000 (US$1,100) during inauguration day of Phase I.[13]
↑"Railway Project". City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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