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Mumbai Local News: WR to Remove Speed Restrictions between Goregaon-Mahim
by Suraj V. Digital Marketing (sr. SEO Expert)
The Western
Railways (WR) has decided to
remove speed restrictions at three locations between Goregaon and Mahim in
order to improve punctuality of local trains on Harbour line.
Meanwhile, at some locations, the
curvature will be improved upon to ensure faster speed of trains.
If reports are to be believed,
the removal of speed restrictions will help trains achieve speed of 50 kmph as
against 30 kmph now.
The speed limit on this route
will be removed after the completion of these works in the next ten days. After
removing the speed limit, the speed of the locomotive will definitely increase
and it will benefit the passengers and save the travel time, said Sumit Thakur,
Chief Public Relations Officer, Western Railway.
He added that after changing the
speed limit, it will be possible to save an average of 5 to 10 minutes of
travel time.
At Marine Lines,
there was a PSR of 20 kmph that was removed and it helped save WR two minutes
per train. At Mahim, on Harbour line, the PSR is relaxed to 50 kmph as against
35 kmph earlier, allowing saving of two minutes per train. At Dadar, there is
now faster arrival of trains on platform 6 as speed limit at crossover is
increased to 30 kmph from 15 kmph. At Bhayander crossover too, speed limit is
set at 30 kmph from 15 kmph. At Santacruz, the crossover was across three lines
which has been redesigned to limit it to two, thus allowing speed to be limited
to 30 kmph as against 15 kmph earlier.
For those unversed, crossovers
are locations where a train interchanges tracks. Speed limits are imposed at
crossovers to prevent derailments.
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