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Mumbai: Harbour Line night services to be disrupted from Aug 5 to 9 for signal work
Commuters on Mumbai's Harbour Line should brace for disruptions this week as Central Railway will conduct night traffic blocks on the Harbour Line from midnight of August 5 to 9 to commission a new Electronic Interlocking (EI) system at Vashi station. The blocks will be enforced every night from 10.45 pm to 3.45 am, affecting both UP and DOWN suburban services on critical stretches such as CSMT–Vashi–Belapur–Panvel and CSMT–Bandra.
As per a press release issued Monday, several suburban trains will be short-terminated, short-originated, or cancelled during these hours.
Belapur–CSMT locals departing at 8.54 pm will terminate at Vashi. The 9.16 pm Belapur–CSMT and 10 pm Bandra–CSMT locals will be short-terminated at Vadala Road, while Panvel–Vashi services at 10.50 pm and 11.32 pm will end at Nerul.
During the early morning hours, Panvel-bound trains typically departing CSMT at 4.52 am and 5.30 am, as well as from Vadala Road at 5.06 am and 5.52 am, will originate from Nerul instead. The Goregaon-bound local at 5.10 am will begin from Vadala Road.
From August 7/8 and 8/9, only the 5.10 am Goregaon local from CSMT will short-originate from Vadala Road.
Several UP trains departing Vashi at 4.03 am, 4.15 am, 4.25 am, 4.37 am, 4.50 am, and 5.04 am will be cancelled on August 5, 6, and 7. On August 8 and 9, only the 4.03 am and 4.25 am services will be cancelled. DOWN locals for Vashi departing CSMT at 9.50 pm, 10.14 pm, and 10.30 pm are cancelled on all four block nights.
'These infrastructure blocks are being carried out for the commissioning of Electronic Interlocking at Vashi,' Central Railway said in its official release, urging commuters to check updated train schedules and plan their journeys.
