Now closed-door local trains in Mumbai in December 2025
In a bid to enhance safety in local trains, the Life-Line of Mumbaikars , an announcement comes from the Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw that all local trains will have closed-door by December.
The Railway Minister pointed out that it’s very important that any local trains that operate in Mumbai need to have their doors closed. It has now been decided that all the trains henceforth manufactured for Mumbai will be that of closed doors. They have done three experiments in this context. The first is retrofit doors on all existing local trains, the second one is all the non-AC trains that are being manufactured will be with closed doors and naturally the AC trains that will be manufactured come with closed doors. It has been in principle decided to have closed doors on all local trains, AC or non-AC,” the minister said.
As of today, three experiments have been conducted and as he had ensured earlier, work is currently on for existing trains to have closed doors by December 2025 and they have already floated a tender for 238 AC local trains and the process has already begun. Adding that there will be adequate oxygen levels inside the trains, to prevent dry eyes.
Railway Minister Vaishnaw was speaking at the bullet train project event which also achieved a landmark with the completion of a 5km tunnel between Ghansoli and Shilphata. This tunnel, made using the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM), is part of the 21-km underground tunnel between BKC and Shilphata which includes a 7 km stretch under the Thane creek.
The remaining 16 km of tunnelling will be executed using Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs). The tunnel will be a single tube tunnel of 13.1 metres in diameter to accommodate a twin track for both up and down lines.
That the project is being executed by Afcons Infrastructure Ltd and work involved overcoming significant challenges including tough rocky strata of Deccan Trap, among others, while strictly adhering to safety standards, an official said.
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