Mumbai WR railway division Current Affairs, GK & News
Tinsukia Railway Junction to get WiFi
The Tinsukia Junction in Assam has become India’s 4000th railway station to receive free public WiFi. The Indian Railway claims that they having been rolling out free WiFi for the public in over 83 stations per day. The Indian Railways claims that they have rolled out WiFi in over 1000 stations in a record time ..
Topics: Borivali railway station • Google Station • Indian Railways • Mumbai WR railway division • Municipal wireless network • Rail transport in India • RailTel Corporation of India • Technology
Indian Railway’s first printing press heritage gallery opened in Mumbai
The Western Railway (WR) has opened the first-of-its-kind printing press heritage gallery of the Indian Railways at Mahalaxmi in Mumbai. With this, the Western Railway Mahalaxmi General Stores Depot (GSD) has become the first in Indian Railways to portray a heritage gallery of the printing and allied machines used in the Western Railway Printing Press ..
Topics: Indian Railways • Mahalaxmi railway station • Mumbai • Mumbai WR railway division • Rail transport in India • States and union territories of India • Transport in Maharashtra • Transport in Mumbai • Western Railway zone
Elphinstone station in Mumbai rechristened as Prabhadevi station
On July 19, the Elphinstone Road station on the suburban rail network of Mumbai has been rechristened as Prabhadevi station in honour of a local deity Prabhadevi and to erase a “colonial” name. The new nomenclature of the station will be PBHD. The station was named after Lord Elphinstone who had taken over as the ..
Topics: Elphinstone • Maharashtra • Mumbai • Mumbai WR railway division • Prabhadevi • Prabhadevi railway station • Prabhadevi Temple • States and union territories of India
India’s first-ever broad gauge air-conditioned AC EMU suburban train started in mumbai
India’s first-ever broad gauge air-conditioned AC EMU suburban train has flagged off from Borivali station on western railway in Mumbai, Maharashtra on December 25, 2017. The AC train was depart from Andheri Station at 14.10 hrs and reached Churchgate at 14.44 hrs. It is decided that on Weekends that is on Saturday and Sunday, the ..
Topics: Andheri railway station • Kandivali railway station • Maharashtra • Mumbai Urban Transport Project • Mumbai WR railway division • States and union territories of India • Transport in Maharashtra • Transport in Mumbai • Western line