Local train services affected due to heavy rains in Mumbai

Road and rail traffic has been affected due to heavy overnight rains in Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). However, operations at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport remained normal. On the other hand, water-logging has been reported from the low-lying areas of Malad, Santacruz, Dahisar, and old places of Dadar, Parel, Wadala, Sion.

Suburban trains are running late by 20 to 25 minutes on the main line of Central Railway as well as on Harbor line. In view of the Kovid-19 epidemic, local train service is running only for health and essential service personnel. Common passengers are currently not allowed to travel in local trains.

According to the information received from the municipal corporation, it has been raining in the city since this morning but more rain is reported in its suburbs. During the three hours, till 7 am, Mumbai received 36 mm of rain while the eastern and western suburbs received 75 mm and 73 mm of rain, respectively.

Suburban train services on the Main Line (between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Kurla) and Harbor Line (CSMT-Vashi-Panvel) were affected since morning due to water-logging on tracks near Kurla station in east Mumbai.

He said that slow line train traffic between Kurla-Vidyavihar has been diverted to high speed line. He said that locals on Harbor line are running 20-25 minutes behind schedule.

However, trains are running on the Thane-Vashi Transharbour route, he said. The Central Railway runs suburban train services on four different suburban corridors in the Mumbai metropolitan area. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, it operated more than 1,700 suburban services and carried over 4 million passengers daily.

Pune’s head of climate research and services K.S. Hosalikar shared satellite images at 8.30 am, which shows dense cloud cover over Mumbai suburbs and Thane with heavy rain likely in 3-4 hours.

He said that the entire Coastal Konkan is covered with clouds and North Konkan-Mumbai needs to be alert.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is on alert mode and the water level of Mothi river is being monitored.

However, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had forecast moderate to heavy rain in the city and suburbs and very heavy at isolated places on Friday.